It was all right there in front of the Cincinnati Bengals. If they managed to take down the then-winless New York Jets at home at Paycor Stadium, the Bengals would have been 4-4 with the AFC North crown there for the taking, especially after the Pittsburgh Steelers lost on Sunday night, dropping them to 4-3.
Well, as we all know, the Bengals did not beat the winless Jets despite holding a 14-point lead over them on multiple occasions on Sunday. Nothing short of a potential season-costing debacle.
It would have been a bad loss regardless of the situation, but knowing that the AFC North title would have become a more realistic scenario with a win only makes the defeat that much worse.