He Cincinnati Bengals The offense finally seems to be clicking, but the team is still having trouble getting into the W column.

They just beat the Las Vegas Raiders41-24, on Sunday, but were defeated by the Philadelphia Eagles the previous week and crushed by the lowly Cleveland Browns and New York Giants.

Sure, that’s three wins in their last four games, but those three wins have come against teams that have combined for six wins.

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TJ Houshmandzadeh of the Cincinnati Bengals during a preseason game on August 13, 2006 in Cincinnati. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

That’s why the former Bengals star TJ Houshmandzadeh He’s not ready to start celebrating yet.

“I don’t know if it’s exciting: We’ve been teams that won’t be participating come playoff time,” the former Bengal said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.

Cincy faces its division rival in the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday, losing to them, 41-38, earlier this season, but Houshmandzadeh will be ahead flat out if the Bengals can split the season series.

“That excitement will be genuine on Friday if we beat the Ravens. To me, that’s the biggest key. You have to beat the best teams,” Houshmandzadeh said. “You have to beat the teams that people don’t expect you to beat. You dug yourself a hole, now you have to get out of it. The Ravens are one of the teams you see first when you get out of there. “This hole. “That excitement isn’t there yet until we start beating teams that we think are good.”

Bengals wide receiver TJ Houshmandzadeh appears during a game on November 28, 2004 in Cincinnati. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

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However, fans were excited.

Houshmandzadeh joined the Bengals faithful at a recent gathering as part of his new partnership with the Tide, where he unwisely drank some Skyline Chili without repercussions.

“Obviously, you’re going to drink, eat and play. I stained my sweater (Skyline Chili all over the sweater) and I was disappointed. But then I thought, ‘Tide is going to clean this up better than ever.'” So I was perfectly fine with that. “I knew Tide tackles the toughest stains, so I was fine,” Houshmandzadeh said.

“Being there with the fans was a good experience. I hadn’t done it before. It was fun. Nobody is doing game day like Cincinnati. I’m biased, but it was awesome, I had fun and we hope to do it again.”

And, for what it’s worth, Houshmandzadeh is confident the Bengals will pull out a road victory.

TJ Houshmandzadeh of the Bengals carries the ball during a game on October 26, 2008 in Houston. (Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)

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“I’m confident, but I don’t know if I say it with my heart or my head,” he said. “If you look at the first game, up 10 with less than four minutes left, you have to win that game… If they get the same offense and just a little bit more defense, obviously we would win.”

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