TRADE DOWN BENGALS

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(10-28-2020, 02:33 PM)count35 Wrote: 2 of those 6 teams have winnable games this weekend so that could drop them to 5 overall in the draft. The following week the Bengals are on a bye and NY Giants are playing Washington while the Texans are playing Jacksonville. So that's one more team to pass the Bengals, posssibly another 2. You're now possibly down to 3 in the draft by Week 10 of the schedule! Coming off the Bengals bye is a game at Pittsburgh. It's perceivable that they could be sitting at number 2 or 3 in the draft by then with still 7 weeks on the schedule. Jets would need to win at least 2 games to pass the Bengals, if they didn't win another game that is. I don't have much trust that the Jets can win 1 let alone 2 games down the stretch. But here you go possibly sitting at number 2 in the draft! 

I get that, but those teams, just like the Bengals, have had and will have winnable games, yet they are where they are.

Looking at the Bengals' remaining schedule, they have arguably 4-5 winnable games left.
NYG, WAS, DAL, HOU, and maybe MIA.

The Bengals could end up being 1-14-1 by season's end or they could be 6-9-1.

The entire NFC East is full of bad teams, so they'll beat up on each other and I think two of them will end up just ahead of the Bengals and the other two will pick ahead of the Bengals.
I think NYJ and JAX are also clearly worse than the Bengals.
It also wouldn't surprise me to see MIN, DEN, and/or LAC end up with a worse record than CIN. LAC has only beaten CIN and JAX. MIN already moved on from Ngakoue, which has made their team even worse. They may be tanking to try to get Lawrence or Fields.