OK, picture this: it's August, you just finished watching the latest episode of Hard Knocks, and based on what you've seen and read up to that point, it's time to play prognosticator and lay out the Bengals 09' season.
Looking at the schedule and the talent (or lack thereof) on the field, 10-6 would be pretty good, right? 10-6 is pretty good.
I'll bet that any team outside of the Indianapolis Colts would accept a guaranteed 10-6 season. The problem however, is how it ended.
After dealing with the deaths of Vicki Zimmer and Chris Henry, the Bengals perhaps thought more about life than football. (Wait, there's more to life than football)? Based on those hardships mixed with key injuries on defense with Antwan Odom, Rey Maualuga and Roy Williams, and the offense's inability to score more than 24 points (which happened only twice all season), it's amazing they even won six games.
So don't be so quick to call the whole year a failure; missing two field goals in crunch-time playoff game, however? That's failure.
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