The Buffalo Bills have proven their SB Window has closed. Bengals are now on the clock

Welp, it's 2023. This is it, this is the Bengals last chance to win their first ever Super Bowl under Joe Burrow for many years.

Josh Allen is now being paid off his rookie deal. Stephon Diggs, Von Miller, they have to pay up to keep these stars. They are hurting on cap space and will likely lose some key pieces on defense(Trey Edmonds, Jordan Poyer). But worst of all, they missed on a lot of draft picks in the last couple years. That's basically the nail in the coffin. It will all fall apart from there. I expect the head coach, and maybe even the GM to be fired from Buffalo after the 2023 season.

My top reasons for the Bengals run to come to an end:

- The QB market is only going up with new contracts

- Bengals owner is well known as being one of the cheapest pro sports owners.

- Joe Burrow(1st overall pick in 2020) Rookie contract advantage - GONE after 2023 season

-Tee Higgins(2nd Rd pick that turned out to be a first round value) Rookie contract advantage - GONE after 2023 season

- Jamar Chase(5th overall pick in 2021) still on Rookie contract for 1 more year, but will be eligible for a contract extension.

- Lou Anarumo is a good coach and his time is coming very soon. Big point to keep in mind here is that Zach Taylor is an offensive minded head coach and he struck gold with arguably the best DC in the NFL in Lou Anarumo. This man does so much more with less. I can see why he was a finalist for the Arizona Cardinals HC job, but if they have success again this season, which I expect them to with that guy at the helm of the defense - GONE

And DJ Reader and Tre Hendrickson are currently free agents as of right now. Good news is because they don't have to pay the guys above yet, they have a decent amount of cap space and might be able to bring those guys back on a 1-year deal, but you can already start to see the wheels starting to fall off.