The Cincinnati Bengals are on their bye week with a 3-6 record and a very little shot at making the playoffs. That would mark the third straight season in which Cincinnati has failed to make the playoffs under head coach Zac Taylor.

Sure, Joe Burrow has been out since Week 2, but somehow, the offense has looked as good under Joe Flacco as it ever did under Burrow.

The problem is, the defense has been tragically bad, which is a big reason why this team is three games under .500 and looks bound for another failure to even make the...

As the NFL trade deadline came to a close, many wondered if the Cincinnati Bengals would move on from star pass rusher Trey Hendrickson. With a 3-6 record and Hendrickson on an expiring contract, many people felt the best move for Cincinnati was to move the reigning NFL sack leader for draft capital.

Ultimately, the Bengals didn’t move Hendrickson. They have been known to value their players too high in trade negotiations at times, but a report from ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler suggests that overvaluing Hendrickson wasn’t necessarily an issue this time around.

“The 3-6 Bengals had a compelling case to...

The Cincinnati Bengals saw some action in Tuesday’s NFL trade deadline, as they dealt linebacker Logan Wilson to the Dallas Cowboys.

A big storyline in itself, the biggest news for the franchise is that star defensive end Trey Hendrickson is staying in the Queen City.

The situation surrounding Hendrickson is not an unfamiliar one to many Bengals fans, as the contract extension talks this offseason were one of the biggest storylines for the team. Now, in a season trending in the wrong direction, it is shocking to see the team retain Hendrickson.

What does that mean? Well, they definitely did...

Bengals News

Bengals Beat: Status Quo Is Fine By Bengals as Logan Wilson Departs, Trey Hendrickson Remains, Duke Tobin Speculation Begins

The Bengals decided the status quo was good enough.

Bengals’ Jordan Battle: Career-best 12 tackles in defeat

Battle recorded 12 tackles (five solo) in Sunday’s loss to the Bears.

Bengals’ Barrett Carter: Double-digit tackles in loss

Carter recorded 10 tackles (five solo) and one pass breakup in the Bengals’ loss to the Bears on Sunday.

What Logan Wilson trade, keeping Trey Hendrickson say about Bengals’ future plans

The Bengals weren’t going to wave the white flag on this...

On Tuesday morning, the Cincinnati Bengals traded long-time linebacker Logan Wilson to the Dallas Cowboys for a seventh-round NFL Draft pick.

Wilson, who requested a trade after he was benched in favor of rookie linebacker Barrett Carter before the team’s first of two defensive collapses that led to losses, who earned the nickname “The Cowboy” while at Wyoming, will, ironically, wear Dallas’ star.

The 2024 Bengals’ defense was absolutely terrible and deserves the lion’s share of the blame for a team with Joe Burrow’s stat line and Ja’Marr Chase’s Triple Crown to miss the playoffs. Zac Taylor used Lou Anarumo...

The 2025 NFL trade deadline has come and gone and the fanfare surrounding the Cincinnati Bengals was minimal. After starting off the week proclaiming that the team is satisfied with the status quo, in terms of roster and staffing, all of it is leading to a confounding situation after back-to-back devastating losses.

Can the team regroup after the bye? Will changes be forthcoming?

We discuss it all all live at 6:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday on The Orange and Black Insider. Join us as we discuss the Bears loss, the trade deadline and what may be ahead for one of...

The Cincinnati Bengals drafted Logan Wilson in the third round of the 2020 NFL Draft, and he immediately became a key contributor, starting on the Bengals’ defense that led the Bengals to the Super Bowl and the AFC championship. He was the leader of the defense and immediately felt like a veteran presence even while on his rookie contract.

Even though Wilson still has multiple years left on the extension he signed with the team, they decided to go with youth at the position. They benched Wilson for rookie linebackers Demetrius Knight and Barrett Carter.

Carter, especially, seems to have...

Unfortunately, there aren’t any more words left to describe the Cincinnati Bengals’ performance against the Chicago Bears.

Bengals fans are, again, numb after another gut-wrenching loss, this one being a 47-42 defeat.

Weirdly enough, we’re deep enough into the season where everyone knows this is the team. There are no more “it was just a bad game,” or “one bad week,” or whatever other excuse fans can come up with.

This is the defense’s identity. This is now back-to-back games in which this defense has allowed the opposing team 500+ total offensive yards, an extremely embarrassing stat.

As a team,...

Logan Wilson, one of the few remaining players from that defense that went to the Super Bowl, has just been traded to the Dallas Cowboys.

According to Ian Rapoport, the Cincinnati Bengals will be getting a seventh round pick in return.

This is the first big trade to happen for a team looking to fix its defense somehow. Wilson wanted out after getting benched, and the Bengals are dealing with major locker room issues.

Wilson, still only 29, has two years remaining on a four-year, $36 million extension he signed two years ago.

He had four straight seasons of 100...

After the 2024 season was over, I said that 50 years from now, we’ll look back and realize how freakish the Cincinnati Bengals’ season was that year. I highly doubt any team will ever have a quarterback that puts up Joe Burrow’s numbers, a wide receiver that wins the Triple Crown, and a defensive end that leads the regular seasons in sacks and still miss the playoffs.

I can now say the same thing about the Bengals’ Week-9 loss to the Bears. I don’t think we will ever see a team, down by 14, score 15 points in less than...

The NFL Trade Deadline is here, and we will keep an eye on the news all day to see if the Cincinnati Bengals make any moves or not.

We will update this post throughout the day if anything changes.

For now, here is a look at the news from around the NFL.

Bengals News

Adam Schefter lays out obvious case for Bengals’ Trey Hendrickson trade

On deadline day, Schefter makes the case for the Bengals to move Hendrickson.

Zac Taylor’s bold decision comes as no surprise when considering his own job security

With no real threat of consequence, Taylor...

Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor made it clear when speaking to the media Monday that there will be no changes to the coaching staff, specifically on the defensive side of the ball. Even though that is the result most of us expected, it is still a bit of a surprise when you look at how bad the last two weeks have been.

While Taylor backed defensive coordinator Al Golden, one of his players did as well. When talking to reporters on Monday, Stone showed his support for Golden.

Stone says the scheme Golden puts together does put players in...