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"1986 WEEK 13 3 BENGALS at BRONCOS"
From J Redwine
The Bengals were masters at underachieving in the mid 1980s. They might have had the best all around talent of anyone in the AFC Central in this period, including the Cleveland Browns, especially on offense, but could never come through and get into the playoffs, pre-1988.
The Bengals were masters at underachieving in the mid 1980s. They might have had the best all around talent of anyone in the AFC Central in this period, including the Cleveland Browns, especially on offense, but could never come through and get into the playoffs, pre-1988.
The Broncos on the other hand during this period, were a blue-collar, hard-working team, that got everything they could get, out of all the possible talent that they had, under head coach Dan Reeves. Other than QB John Elway, not another great, perhaps even Pro Bowl caliber player on offense. Most of the Broncos great players were on defense, led by Karl Mecklenberg, Rulon Jones, Simon Fletcher, Dennis Smith, and others.
So this Bengals-Broncos game was very important in 1986 because both teams were trying to win their divisions. But it was also an interesting matchup between a team with a lot of talent on offense, as well as good players on defense, vs a team that didn't have many great players at all, especially on offense, but had a lot of very good players and a lot of depth, that was also very well-coached.
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