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Doc's Morning Line: 10 things from Cincinnati Bengals' win over Detroit Lions

Welcome to our little Republic, where cynicism isn’t just a descriptive. It’s a lifestyle. Bengals lose, we gripe. Bengals win, we gripe more. Which could lead someone who has never lived here to wonder what the heck we want.

As soon as the clock died Sunday in Detroit, the moaners came to life. No. Check that. The critics were coming ‘round by halftime. “They won’t beat anybody good if they don’t play two halves.’’

That might be true generally, but it wasn’t Sunday at Ford Field, where the only thing more offensive than the play of the Lions was the sound system that for four solid hours crushed my anvils, to say nothing of my stirrups.