{"id":376,"date":"2024-10-28T03:15:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T03:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2024-10-28T03:15:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T03:15:16","slug":"bengals-news-why-joe-burrow-still-thinks-the-bengals-can-make-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"BENGALS NEWS: Why Joe Burrow still thinks the Bengals can make the playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<article data-key=\"238782258\">\n<header>\n<h2>Cincinnati&#8217;s quarterback still believes in his team despite a tough start to the season.<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3media.247sports.com\/Uploads\/Assets\/208\/715\/12715208.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=628&amp;crop=1.91:1&amp;fit=cover\" alt=\"Why Joe Burrow still thinks the Bengals can make the playoffs\" \/><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<section>Viewed before the season as serious contenders even in a challenging AFC North, the <b>Cincinnati Bengals<\/b> have failed to live up to expectations. Even with the division shaping up to be somewhat more pedestrian than expected, the Bengals are closer to the bottom to the top. After a drubbing at the hands of the <b>Philadelphia Eagles<\/b>, they own a 3-5 record, just above the 2-6 Browns in last place and 2.5 games behind the 5-2 Steelers in first.<\/p>\n<p>From some standpoints, the Bengals&#8217; season is effectively over, and has been for some time. For instance, they started the year 0-3, usually more or less a death knell for playoff contention. They&#8217;ve gotten things together to a degree since then, but few teams go through half of a season below .500 and go on to qualify for postseason play.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Bengals quarterback <b>Joe Burrow<\/b> believes that his team can still make it to the playoffs. Burrow stated a goal to win\u00a0ten games, usually the bar for making the playoffs, meaning that the Bengals would need to win seven of their remaining nine, a task the quarterback described as &#8220;doable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Burrow on the slow start <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xJFZGI9WNf\">pic.twitter.com\/xJFZGI9WNf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ari M (@AriMeirov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AriMeirov\/status\/1850647446495568231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>From a certain standpoint,\u00a0it&#8217;s hard to get behind the notion that the Bengals will win seven more games. The <b>Cincinnati<\/b> defense hasn&#8217;t shown the kind of consistency needed to go on a run like that, meaning that Burrow and the offense would need to be more or less perfect week in and week out to give the team a realistic chance.<\/p>\n<p>However, in terms of getting to the postseason, Burrow might actually have a point. The Bengals are 3-5, but that only puts them a game and a half out of the playoff picture, as they currently sit in the AFC&#8217;s ninth seed. With the <b>Pittsburgh Steelers<\/b> at 5-2 and the <b>Baltimore Ravens<\/b> 5-3, the AFC North division title is probably off of the table, but the\u00a0teams directly ahead of Cincinnati aren&#8217;t\u00a0all that intimidating.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>Los Angeles Chargers<\/b> are currently in the seventh spot in the standings with a 4-3 record, and the <b>Indianapolis Colts<\/b> are right behind at 4-4. This raises the question of whether it will actually take\u00a0ten wins to make it into the back end of a weak AFC playoff field, or if nine might be sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>In the three seasons with a 14-team playoff bracket and 17-game regular season, only one of the six teams to finish seventh in their conference has won as many as 10 games, although the 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers had to finish 9-7-1 to finish seventh ahead of three 9-8 teams. Many teams to go in at 9-8 have done so via tiebreakers, meaning that several 9-8 teams have also been left out of the tournament and that 8-9 has not yet been good enough.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals are down but not out at 3-5, but if they&#8217;re going to actively climb through the standings, the defense is going to need to take a big step up, even if they only need to win six of their remaining games. With four games left in divisional play, and a key\u00a0road clash against the Chargers, it will certainly be a tough road to find the nine or ten wins generally needed for playoff qualification.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati&#8217;s quarterback still believes in his team despite a tough start to the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cincinnati-bengals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BENGALS NEWS: Why Joe Burrow still thinks the Bengals can make the playoffs - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=376\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BENGALS NEWS: Why Joe Burrow still thinks the Bengals can make the playoffs - 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