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The 2001 Cincinnati Bengals season was the team’s 34th year in professional football and its 32nd with the National Football League. In the first full season with Dick LeBeau as head coach the Bengals abandoned their plans for developing quarterback Akili Smith as their starter by acquiring Jon Kitna from the Seattle Seahawks. The Bengals would win their first two games with Kitna behind center and sat at 4–3 through the first seven games of the season.