(EDITOR’S NOTE: Each weekend this offseason a guest columnist weighs in with thoughts on the NFL – past, present or future. Today we feature Hall-of-Fame voter Geoff Hobson of Bengals.com who – like plenty of Cincinnati fans – wonders why Canton seems to have blind spot for the Bengals).

If this sounds familiar, it’s because it is.

Over on Bengals.com, it’s been a chorus since the website was launched on April 15, 2000, with my story on the selection of Florida State wide receiver Peter Warrick, Cincinnati’s first draft pick of the 21st century and the first Bengal to play his entire career at Paul Brown Stadium.

Warrick didn’t go to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but that’s no reason those that came before him at Riverfront Stadium … or those after in the Marvin Lewis era … shouldn’t get in.

Yet that seems to be one of the crazy reasons for one of the most baffling mysteries in pro football: The crushing lack of Bengals in the Hall, an appalling absence driven home earlier this year when neither Ken Anderson or Ken Riley made the expanded seniors class observing the NFL’s 100 anniversary.

That led to another Bengals.com examination: Even though they’ve been around since 1968, how the heck do the Bengals have just one identifiable Hall of Famer, a guy that played most or his entire career in Cincinnati? And that’s the no-brainer, Anthony Munoz, regarded as the best left tackle that ever lived.

Wide receiver Charlie Joiner had a few years with them before taking off in San Diego, and another wide receiver, Terrell Owens, landed with them for the last year of his career.

That’s it. Three guys. One that they drafted.

But the haven't-won-the-big-one argument, that lack-of-a-Super Bowl championship that seems to be the unjust tiebreaker for the highest honor in the ultimate team game, just doesn’t make sense. Neither does the theory that because the Bengals haven't been to a Super Bowl in 31 years they are irrelevant to a new generation of voter.

As we argued on Bengals.com, five of the '60s’ expansion teams – including Cincinnati -- have never won a Super Bowl. The others are Atlanta, Buffalo, the Chargers, Minnesota and Houston/Tennessee.

But the Falcons have three identifiable Hall of Famers that played significant stretches with them (Claude Humphrey, Deion Sanders and Morten Andersen), while the Bills have 12, the Chargers 10, the Vikings 14 and the Titans/Oilers nine.

The Bengals have been to their last Super Bowl more recently than the Vikings and Dolphins, and it's been 51 years since the Jets went to one. But the Vikings have 15 identifiable Hall-of-Famers, the Dolphins 10 and the Jets six.

Anyway, it’s flat-out ridiculous if those are reasons. Really? Ken Anderson, who retired as the most accurate passer in post-season history, can’t get into Canton because Carson Palmer and Andy Dalton didn’t win a playoff game?

Defensive tackle Geno Atkins, just voted to the 2010s' all-decade team, may eventually join Munoz in the Hall. Despite his injuries, wide receiver A.J. Green’s seven Pro Bowls put him squarely in a discussion, too.

But here are four Bengals that could and should get in tomorrow and two more that must be discussed. If it sounds familiar, you’ve read Bengals.com at some point in the last 20 years. (Years as a Bengal noted).

KEN ANDERSON: 1971-86. Best quarterback not in the Hall with four NFL passing titles… The only QB eligible with at least three division crowns not in … When he retired before the 1987 season, he left as the game’s all-time accuracy leader in a post-season career, a regular season and a regular-season game with more than 20 pass attempts … More touchdown passes than Ken Stabler, more passing yards per attempt than Terry Bradshaw, more accurate than Bart Starr …

KEN RILEY: 1969-83. Along with Anderson, the 15-year cornerback is arguably the best senior candidate out there … When he retired, he was the third most prolific interceptor with 65 picks after a season where there were two 4,000-yard passers … Think that number has held up? After this season with 11 4,000-yard passers, he’s still fifth on the list, tied with Charles Woodson … Everybody ahead of Riley on the list is in, and does anybody doubt Woodson is going in?

WILLIE ANDERSON: 1996-08. A modern-day candidate and the mystery deepens … In the past five years, the Hall has had such angst making sure offensive linemen were voted in and they’ve done due diligence. But only when it comes to left tackles and guards… While guys like Walter Jones, Willie Roaf and Orlando Pace dominated on the left side, no one argues Anderson is the best right tackle in that era … During his 181 games for the Bengals, he faced nine of the NFL's current top all-time 11 sackers, missing only DeMarcus Ware and John Randle, and the estimation is he allowed one sack. And the one he gave up? It was to all-time leader Bruce Smith with 19 seconds left in a game where the Bills led by two touchdowns. (Those estimated numbers were after the 2017 Hall vote.)

COREY DILLON: 1997-03: Edgerrin James just went into the Hall, and as one of the game’s top running backs, that’s fine. He should. But if he’s in, shouldn’t Dillon even though he played 10 seasons and rushed for 11,241 yards compared to James’ 12,246 in 11 seasons? … Dillon has a ring, just like James, and, like James, he’s his drafted team’s all-time leading rusher … But Dillon is also another franchise’s (the Patriots) single-season rushing champion … Dillon is also author of two of the 16 biggest rushing games in history and only one other guy, O.J. Simpson, is on that list twice … James had a career average of four yards per rush, Dillon was 4.3, with four seasons of at least 4.6…James had just one of those …

And here are two outstanding Bengals’ wide receivers that mysteriously seem to miss out on any discussion:

CHAD JOHNSON: 2001-10: All these receivers are trotted out and voted on: Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt, Reggie Wayne and the list goes on and on, and it should… But talk about this guy, too … Only Johnson and Jerry Rice have led their conference in receiving yards four straight seasons ...

ISAAC CURTIS: He was so good, Paul Brown made them change the rules … More touchdowns and catches than Lynn Swann and a longer yards-per-catch average than John Stallworth, two Steelers that always seemed to get the January spotlight while the Steel Curtain eclipsed what Curtis did in the previous four months …