My 2 cents. If we could ever get Josh a defense this team might really be something. The 3 tds on the Bengals first 3 drives, well that was just atrocious defense. We could of hung 40 plus on the Bengals even without the defensive TD as Cook had the fumbles deep in their zone. The TE performance was largely a result of the Bengals being the absolute worst team in the league at covering TEs, and by a wide margin.
I remain in the camp, until we get this defense fixed, there is no championship in our future, it was another game of taking more than 32 to win at home. People can talk about Brady and the receivers all day long, to me the elephant in the room continues to be(year after year) how bad the defense is, especially when they dont get turnovers.