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Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19
You couldn't realistically ask for a better contract championship window than they had these past few years. You just don't get that many elite players on cheap deals for three years in a row. The early Mahomes years when Tyreek still was cheap would be close, but that didn't last as long.
It's a steep steep climb back to the top now after they had the most level hill of any team since 2021.
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That's what is so rare about it.
3 years is an
eternity for those kind of value contracts. At essentially 3 of the most vital positions on the field.
What they didn't have was even replacement value at the 4th of those critical positions - OT.
They simply never even got to average at OT for a QB that badly needs protection to perform.
History won't remember these Bengals at all, but to whatever extent it can be bothered to stoop to notice them, it will look back on them as one of the least successful wide-open windows in modern NFL history.
You judge greatness by its graveyard and Patrick Mahomes has placed a few black and orange tombstones in his. Bills fans can bitch all day about Josh Allen being the right quarterback at the wrong time, but it's the Bengals that absolutely should've won SOMETHING over the last few seasons.