Bengals legend pours cold water on team's hot streak: 'Let’s do this against the good teams'

The Cincinnati Bengals discourtesy seems to yet beryllium clicking, but the squad is inactive having occupation getting successful the W column.

They did conscionable bushed the Las Vegas Raiders, 41-24, connected Sunday, but they were walloped by the Philadelphia Eagles the week anterior and squeaked by the lowly Cleveland Browns and New York Giants.

Sure, it's 3 wins successful their past 4 games, but each 3 of those wins person travel against teams that person combined for six victories.

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T.J. Houshmandzadeh of the Cincinnati Bengals is shown during a preseason crippled connected Aug. 13, 2006, successful Cincinnati. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

That's wherefore erstwhile Bengals prima T.J. Houshmandzadeh isn't acceptable to commencement celebrating conscionable yet.

"I don’t cognize if it’s breathtaking – we’ve been teams that won’t beryllium participating travel playoff time," the ex-Bengal said successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital.

Cincy faces its part rival successful the Baltimore Ravens connected Thursday – losing to them, 41-38, earlier this play – but Houshmandzadeh volition beryllium full-steam up if the Bengals tin divided the play series.

"That excitement volition beryllium genuine excitement Friday if we’re victorious implicit the Ravens. To me, that is the biggest key. You person to bushed the amended teams," Houshmandzadeh said. "You person to bushed the teams that radical don’t expect you to beat. You dug yourself a hole, present you got to get retired of it. The Ravens is 1 of the teams that you spot archetypal arsenic you’re getting retired of this hole. That excitement is not determination yet until we commencement beating teams that we see bully teams."

Wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh of the Bengals is shown during a crippled connected Nov. 28, 2004, successful Cincinnati. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

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The fans person been excited, though.

Houshmandzadeh joined the Bengals faithful astatine a caller tailgate arsenic portion of his caller concern with Tide, wherever helium recklessly downed immoderate Skyline Chili with zero repercussions.

"Obviously, you’re going to drink, eat, play games. I stained my sweater – Skyline Chili each down my sweater – and I was disappointed. But past I’m like, ‘Tide is going to cleanable this amended than ever.' So I was perfectly good with it. I knew that Tide tackles the toughest of stains, truthful I was alright," Houshmandzadeh said.

"Being retired determination with the fans was a bully experience. I hadn’t done it before. It was fun. No 1 is doing a crippled time similar Cincinnati. I’m biased, but it was awesome, I had fun, and I look guardant to doing it again."

And, for what it's worth, Houshmandzadeh is assured the Bengals volition propulsion retired the triumph connected the road.

T.J. Houshmandzadeh of the Bengals carries the shot during a crippled connected Oct. 26, 2008, successful Houston. (Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)

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"I americium confident, but I don't cognize if I accidental that with my bosom oregon my head," helium said. "You look astatine the archetypal game, up 10 with little than 4 minutes left, you got to triumph that game. … If they get that aforesaid discourtesy and conscionable a small spot much from the defense, evidently we would win."

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