OT Andrew Whitworth says consistency can help Cincinnati Bengals to Super Bowl – NFL News
Offensive Tackle Andrew Whitworth has spoken of his concerns over the inconsistency the team has shown in progress in the league, rarely reaching playoffs and then settling back in the season for a few years.
It has been a fixed pattern of the Bengals that they play in playoffs for a season after lapse of a few years and have never been beyond except for playing the Super Bowl game once in 1981, which they lost to the San Francisco 49ers. They reached the playoffs
again in the next season but lost. Since then they have never reached the second phase of the league twice in a row.
This is what Andrew has talked about. In a communication to the Associated Press, he said:
"That's definitely the next challenge. And what does that take? It takes being a consistent team every week and playing our style no matter who we play. That's what it's going to take for us to take the next step."
The Bengals are off to a good start during most of the seasons but are unable to maintain the same level of form until the end of the season.
Luckily they managed to make it to the playoffs last season on a wildcard opportunity that presented itself as a result of an unexpected development of the points table.
In the game against the playoffs newcomers the Houston Texans, the Bengals did not look a team deserving the chance of playing in the second leg. The Texans convincingly defeated them.
The playoffs bust was another failure of the team after having remained neck-to-neck with the American Football Conference (AFC) North division rivals the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers on the points table during the first half of the season.
At the end, they with a sheer amount of luck ended up in the playoffs but ruined the opportunity with their own hands. It seems the Bengals are happy to settle down as third leading team of the AFC North, after the Steelers and Ravens.
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