I was out of pocket this weekend and didn’t have a chance to watch or blog the Bengals’ miserable 35-3 loss in Indianapolis, a situation about which I feel no regret whatsoever. I suppose I’ll go through the highlights and numbers at some point and see if there are any shiny pebbles amidst the rubble, but right now I haven’t so much as read a game summary and suspect that the final score speaks for itself.
The good news — such as it is — is that the loss kept the Bengals in the No. 2 hole for the April 2009 draft. With a best possible record of 4-11-1, the Bengals have locked in a top-8 selection. Things could still change fairly quickly, however. Three teams — Kansas City, St. Louis and Seattle — remain half a game behind Cincinnati at 2-11, so any Bengals victory in the last three games could potentially drop them as far as fifth in a single stroke. But the prospect of further Bengals victories is increasingly remote.
| Pick | Team | Record |
| 1 | Detroit Lions | 0-13 |
| 2 | Cincinnati Bengals | 1-11-1 |
| 3 | Kansas City Chiefs | 2-11 |
| 4 | St. Louis Rams | 2-11 |
| 5 | Seattle Seahawks | 2-11 |
| 6 | Oakland Raiders | 3-10 |
| 7 | Cleveland Browns | 4-9 |
| 8 | Jacksonville Jaguars | 4-9 |
Teams in italic are ones the Bengals play in their final three games. Note that I have not figured out all the tiebreakers for teams with the same record, so this is not an exact representation of the current draft order. But tiebreakers will only come into play for Cincinnati if there are more tie games.
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