Zac Taylor's words are starting to ring hollow as Bengals veer toward irrelevance

The 2025 season has been a waking nightmare for the Cincinnati Bengals. The team has fallen to 3-7 after a brutal loss to the division rival Pittsburgh Steelers this past Sunday. It's the latest defeat in a three-game losing streak that began with an improbable collapse to the winless Jets. Something very familiar about all this. Oh right. It feels like a continuation of the 2024 season, where the offense was incredible for most of the year, but the defense couldn't hold up, resulting in a 9-8 record that wasn't good enough for the playoffs. With the Bengals' 2025 campaign well on its way to another missed postseason berth, that will be three straight years with no playoff football for Cincinnati. Remember those back-to-back AFC Championship appearances in the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons? They feel like distant memories. After three years with no results, many fans are starting to get frustrated with head coach Zac Taylor. Taylor is generally known as a likable guy with a penchant for building a good locker