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(6 hours ago)ochocincos Wrote: True, but beating a team well under .500 is far less impressive than beating a team with a winning record and in contention for playoffs.
And beating those teams with better records may end up having playoff tiebreaker/seeding implications too.
Bengals ended up beating two playoff teams in DEN and PIT, which was a good thing. They nearly squeaked into the playoffs due to a tiebreaker because of it.
But the wins against CLE and TEN really weren't impressive at all. Those are expected to happen and a disappointment if they didn't.
Almost every single game in the NFL is challenging for any team regardless of records
