Eagles-Bengals pre-game notes: Tee Higgins out, Ainias Smith debut, prediction

CINCINNATI — The Eagles are onto Cincinnati. It's a rare trip to southern Ohio for the Eagles, who are playing here for the first time since 2016. They have not yet won in Cincinnati — there was a tie here, though — and the streak is not something on Nick Sirianni's mind.
"I don't think it's productive for us to think about that," Sirianni said. "It's productive for us to go, ‘OK, hey, we're playing in a hostile environment, so we've got to do the things we need to do to prepare for a hostile environment.’ Really, I didn't even know that until you just said that. So we're going about our process the exact same way as if we were undefeated there."
The game might seem more winnable with the n...