Bengals Will Win AFC North This Season

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(10-07-2024, 09:07 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I'd think we'd need 10 wins for wildcard. Maybe 9.

We'd need to finish 8-4 for 9 wins.

We had 9 last year and missed. 

6 teams went 9-8 in 2023 and 5 of them didn't make the playoffs.
4 teams went 9-8 in 2022 and 2 of them didn't make the playoffs. 
5 teams went 9-8 in 2021 and 4 of them didn't make the playoffs.
That's 26.7% over the last 3 years for a 9-8 record making the playoffs.

Think you need 10 to have any degree of comfort, even more so considering we're already 0-3 in the AFC, so we're almost certainly not going to win that tiebreaker. So a 9-3 finish.