The NFL is known as a parity league.
Or, is there “a lot of bad football” in 2022, as one future Hall of Fame quarterback put it a couple of weeks ago?
Either way, 10 teams enter Week 7 with 3-3 records. Six of those teams were playoff squads last year, including both Super Bowl teams, the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals. The other four are the New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers, Green Bay Packers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. All are in action this week with the exception of the Rams, who are on a bye.
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This week we ask: Who among this group is in the most trouble going forward?
Cincinnati Bengals
While the Bengals have won three of their last four games and appear to have course corrected, there are still troubling signs ahead. Coach Zac Taylor has been forcing a running game that does not appear to be competent. His play calling at times becomes overcomplicated. And while sack numbers have dropped since the first two games (in which Cincinnati yielded 13), it is still allowing Joe Burrow to be hit far too many times.
And then when you look at Cincy’s schedule, having already lost a head-to-head against the Ravens — the toughest presumptive challenge the Bengals face in the AFC North —…
