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Making a bad decision worse. (NFL: insider).
You're the Bengals, and you have a quarterback decision to make. You are choosing among two veterans, Gus Frerotte and Jon Kitna, and a youngster, Akili Smith. You once valued Smith so much that you used the No. 3 overall draft pick to take him. Your season already is an embarrassment, so the prudent idea would be to figure out what young players are good enough to brighten the future.
So, of course, you bench Smith and turn to Kitna.
Maybe Smith always will be remembered as a multimillion-dollar draft bust. Maybe one of the many signs of Bengals front-office bungling will be his selection in the 1999 draft instead of Daunte Culpepper or Aaron Brooks. Maybe he simply can't play in the NFL.
But maybe he can. And, of all teams in this league, the Bengals are in position to find out. Yet he receives a one-game audition this season, doesn't win, and now is again a sideline watcher.
The Bengals are an easy target. They lose, and they lose a lot. They don't seem interested in aggressively improving their team, and when they do ...
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