The road to the division/wildcard isn’t even that long

[Destro]

Nah, lose the next one and that'll be the season. People counting on the Bengals suddenly becoming a beast. Ok, let us say that is possible. Now, you expect the conference to all of a sudden start collapsing? Those in today all seem like they can win just as many games and the ones on the outside ( like us ) seem to be doing well, except for us and the Pats and Jets. That's today. Come Sunday night, it may be lights out, if we lose.

Job one is to win. Can't control what other teams do. Playoffs start Thursday.