NFL Streak Watch
Streak Watch: Cincinnati Bengals Have Won 3 Straight (NFL)
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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 win-column crowd
Cincinnati Bengals have won three straight, the longest active run in the league. Winning streaks change how a club carries itself, every bounce feels earned, every close game feels like it belongs to them until somebody proves otherwise.
Buffalo Bills carry a 3-game winning run of their own.
Add Los Angeles Rams to the list too, 3 in a row.
Stuck in the barrel
On the other side of the ledger, Houston Texans have dropped three straight. Losing streaks carry their own gravity, the pressing starts, the bounces stop cooperating, and close games keep finding the same ending.
It is not much prettier for Miami Dolphins, losers of 3 straight.
Philadelphia Eagles round out the skid list at 3 in a row.
At a glance
For the record, here is everything currently running at three-plus:
| Team | Active streak |
|---|---|
| Cincinnati Bengals | won 3 straight |
| Houston Texans | lost 3 straight |
| Miami Dolphins | lost 3 straight |
| Buffalo Bills | won 3 straight |
| Los Angeles Rams | won 3 straight |
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.