The Bengals path to the playoffs is increasingly clear and still very difficult, but when should we be taking their playoff chances seriously?

We break it down today.

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about your favorite team in one place since 2016. And today we dive into the Bengals' chances to make the playoffs,

the exact things that they need to happen,

which more or less start with winning out,

although they're technically scenarios where they could lose one game

or even two in very far-fetched scenarios and still make the playoffs.

But we're going to focus on the winning out scenarios today because that's the most likely

path for the Bengals.

And then, when should we take their playoff chances seriously?

They're still anywhere between 6 and 9% to make the playoffs, depending on which model

you're looking at, whether it's the athletic

or pro football network or pro football focus.

And we'll take a look at the threshold at which we should probably start saying, yeah,

you know, it's a better than it's better than a coin flip now.

It's not just the single digit chance,

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