Streak Watch: Cincinnati Bengals Have Won 3 Straight (NFL)

Every result in NFL feeds a streak somewhere, and a few of them have now grown big enough to deserve names. Everything below comes straight off the results; nothing fancier than counting.

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.

Riding high

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.

Behind them, Buffalo Bills have quietly won 3 in a row.

Add Los Angeles Rams to the list too, 3 in a row.

Going the wrong way

Houston Texans cannot find the exit: three consecutive losses and counting. The schedule keeps coming regardless, which is either mercy or cruelty depending on the next opponent.

It is not much prettier for Miami Dolphins, losers of 3 straight.

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

At a glance

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

The fine print

A 3-game run is long enough that it stops being a footnote and starts being the lead, expect it to come up in every broadcast until it ends.

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.