Bengals Team to Beat or Beatable Team??

After the Bengals went 4-11-1 in 2008 they came back this season restoring faith in all of there fans by going 10-6 and their first playoff birth since 2005 while missing several key defensive players from injury in the beginning of the season. Now with those players healthy and back on the roster, and with there draft picks including Jordan Shipley WR and Jermaine Gresham TE should help the Bengals become a more competitive team in the AFC, Shipley and Gresham will also give Carson Palmer more targets to throw to instead of limiting him to Chad Johnson and Brian Leonard, or the late Chris Henry from last season with his arsenal of Receivers expanding the Bengals offensive should be at one of its best points especially with adding explosive players like Jordan Shipley. while on the Defensive side of the ball the Bengals with have there key players back including Robert Gathers, Antwan Odom, Leon Hall, and Johnathan Joesph, however I am not a Bengals fan living in Cincinnati I would like to see them be more competitive once again and play to there full potential because I always love to see the home town team win. With their season opener against the New England Patriots this will be a real test of the Bengals to see how they've come together as a team and weather or not they be able to compete or if they'll just be another practice game. they Bengals will have to step up big in 2010 and player good in coverage and put pressure on quarterbacks to keep the Bengals from being the cardiac cats again and forcing them to win games in the fourth quarter with the last drive. However i do not expect the Bengals to go to the Superbowl or go undefeated because changes those big can't be made in the course of one off season. But I do expect them to go past the first round of the playoffs. I can see them going to the second round maybe the third round if they have home field advantage because its hard to win playoff games on the round. But the best bet for the Bengals in the 2010 post-season would be to go 12-4 or 13-3 and try to obtain a first round by or home field advantage. Which ever way the post-season end for the Bengals I expect this season to be a better outcome than the 2009 season.