NFL Streak Watch, Cincinnati Bengals's Run Hits 3

Streaks are the league's pulse. You can read the whole mood of NFL off who keeps stacking wins and who cannot find the exit, and this morning's board, counted straight from the results table, has some runs worth talking about.

There are seven clubs carrying streaks of three games or longer at the moment, which tells you something about how streaky this stretch of the calendar has been.

The teams stacking wins

Cincinnati Bengals just keep stacking, three wins in a row, the best active streak going. At some point a run stops being a coincidence and starts being a statement, and they are somewhere past that point.

Buffalo Bills carry a 3-game winning run of their own.

And Los Angeles Rams make it a crowd with 3 consecutive wins.

The skids

The skid to watch belongs to Houston Texans, losers of three in a row. Runs like this always end eventually; the only question is how much damage gets done before they do.

Miami Dolphins are on a slide of their own at 3 straight losses.

And Philadelphia Eagles are quietly carrying a 3-game slide of their own.

By the numbers

For the record, here is everything currently running at three-plus:

Worth remembering

At 3 games, the board's longest streak is officially a main character; nothing else in the league gets talked about the same way while it lives.

Streaks end, that is the one thing every single one of them does. They tell you where a team has been, loudly, and nothing at all about where the next game is going.