It sure feels like the Cincinnati Bengals are just getting started.
Saturday night’s win over the Las Vegas Raiders in the wild card round of the playoffs might’ve ended a 31-year drought for the franchise.
But more importantly — no matter what happens in the divisional round and beyond this year — the Bengals sit as one of the best-positioned teams in the NFL.
There’s a bevy of reasons for this line of thinking, so let’s run through those before really turning attention to the team’s divisional-round matchup.
The future, as they say, is very bright.