Why are Playoff Wins Important? Bengals Edition

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Playoff wins aren't the only stat that matters, but it essentially means even in our best years in the Mike Brown era we can't claim to have finished higher than 12th place in the league.

But we can look beyond the playoff drought in order to show that we don't look at one single thing. We could say in the Mike Brown era we have seen 0 playoff wins, 0 SB wins, 0 AFC champion titles, 0 HOF players, 0 HOF coaches, 0 new GMs to get hopeful about, and that's just off the top of my head.

Franchises, like people, have a tendency to set their own ceiling. We want a playoff win like Browns fans want an 8 win season, like Bills fans wanted to just make the playoffs 2 years ago, and so on. This is our ceiling because it's where we've been stuck for the past 14 years.

Making the playoffs didn't fix the Bills, going 8-8 won't fix the Browns, and winning a playoff game won't fix the Bengals but it'll at least get us over a hurdle that's been in place for decades. It isn't our fault that we recognize the very visible ceiling that we keep hitting our heads on.