CBS Sports Final NFL Power Rankings: No. 10 Cincinnati Bengals
The 2011 NFL season will be defined by quarterback dominance, a top notch class of rookies and the revitalization of the New York-Boston rivalry. As the book closes on the season and the Giants bask in the glory of a Super Bowl championship, it is time to list the other successes, as well as the disappointments, of this past year. End of the season power rankings are being released at a rapid pace, most recently by CBSSports.com Senior NFL Columnist Pete Prisco. He has ranked the Cincinnati Bengals as the 10th best team.
The 10 spot is one of the highest rankings the Bengals have received in this young offseason, one spot higher than SB Nation's Power Rankings ranking of Cincinnati at No. 11. Sports Illustrated's Peter King only ranked his top 15 teams--a list which included the Arizona Cardinals, the San Diego Chargers and the 6-10 Miami Dolphins, but did not include the Cincinnati Bengals. Obviously, different criteria is used by each writer as they compile their respective lists, and it is unclear whether a greater importance is placed on previous season's performance or their potential moving forward. Peter King opted to remain ambiguous and not disclose the criteria for his highly questionable list, but in his one line analysis of Cincinnati, Prisco hinted that it is the promising future which earned the Bengals a top ten ranking. He said:
This is a young team on the rise. As the young players mature, especially Andy Dalton, they will be a Super contender.
This particular ranking of No. 10 is debatable, as it places Cincinnati in front of the also youthful Detroit Lions, but that is not to say Cincinnati's ranking is undeserved. A playoff berth, a rookie of the year candidate, four Pro Bowlers--the Bengals were 2011's biggest surprise and earned the right to be considered a top ten team in the NFL.
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Or #1 in our hearts.
Paul Brown Stadium, where everyone's hopes go to die.
Ill Take it
Ill take 10 over 32nd any day of the year, BUT.
We got high hopes for our future and its only a matter of time before we hit the bit 1#
And we can do that by upgrading our offensive line…. One nasty mauler at a time.
Do you know what a super man Ass Whooping is ?... Its the type of Ass Whooping you wish you could Fly away from !....
Prisco is the anti-Peter King
He always seems to have love for Cincy.
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It's a fair ranking.
I personally would rather they rank them 32nd again. That seemed to motivate the team last season.. Hopefully coming up short in the playoffs will be motivation enough.
"Next season will be better" circa 1990
Gotta wonder what Mike Brown did to Peter King
when King worked for the Enquirer covering the Bengals in the 80’s. Maybe Paul asked King to babysit Mike for an evening so Paul could give better half a night on the town and Mike proceeded to “go” on the carpet or in Peter’s coffee mug. Gotta be something like that because since then, King’s had it in for the Bengals.
Even though this is a picture after the WC loss, I still love it because
Kelly Jennings looks like the guy that was always doing the robot on the Chappelle show.
"He stood in there like an old riverboat gambler and gunned that ball right on the money"
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