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

[WeezyBengal]

(11-13-2023, 09:12 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Squeaking in with the 7 seed is not good.

It was added because of money, not because there were so many good teams who were missing the playoffs. That's why those teams are 0-6 with uncompetitive games more often than not.

It's not like baseball playoffs where getting into the playoffs means anything can happen. Football playoffs generally the better team just wins. I believe something like only 1 of the last 24 teams to play in the Super Bowl didn't win their division that year.

If they get in as the 7th seed and are relatively healthy there would be absolutely no team that would want to play them and A LOT of people would pick the Bengals to win that game on the road.