Look at it this way......

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(11-01-2021, 10:27 AM)ochocincos Wrote: Then it's what many people predicted earlier in the season, only flip the losses between BAL and NYJ.
This team will do better than I originally predicted (6-8 wins), but making the playoffs isn't a high probability yet given their inconsistent play.
I think they have another 3-5 wins in them, putting them at 8-10 wins.

This is probably the most likely scenario.  Others were posting before the Jets game about the Bengals going 15-2, 14-3 and some other nonsense.  Yes, it was great to beat the Ravens (which was one of the best teams), but we lost to the worst team in the league yesterday.  I think what we've got here is a good team that wins slightly more than it loses, but not a great team.

Some have said our schedule wasn't that tough and we'd win the vast majority of our games.  Frankly, I don't see one easy game the rest of the year and I think each one will be a dogfight. 

This is either going to be a huge wake-up call for this team or the beginning of the end.  Hopefully this will quiet down some of that sideline chatter about winning it all only 7 games into the season.  Don't get me wrong, I like the confidence, but I think they totally looked past the Jets yesterday.  Without those defensive turnovers, it would've been much, much worse.

One game at a time and see where we're at the end of the regular season.