It is ridiculous to say that you want your team to be the worst in the league so we can get a high draft pick. For one, the first pick in the draft should be Leinart and we don't need another QB, so it would not make any sense for us to "need" the top pick. The whole point of professional sports is to win, so saying that you would rather have your team do bad so they can get a higher draft pick is horrible.
Most people at the beginning of the year picked us to be 1-2 or 0-3 at this point. No one thought we'd win at Buffalo or at home against Pittsburgh, and seeing how the Bengals are currently playing no one would have predicted us to win a game at their place either.
We can realistically still go 8-8. We have Tennessee coming in this week that has a decent offense but a very poor defense, then Seattle the following week that is the same, plus they play with no heart. Obviously the Colts will likely beat us, but then we have Cleveland at home who we should beat, then Jacksonville and Indy on the road which I think we will likely lose both, then Kansas City who we will probably lose to, but then St. Louis (see Seattle and Tennessee notes). Then we play at Baltimore, which a month ago I would have said would kill us, but their offense is equally as terrible right now, so we could win that one, then at Tennessee who we could and I think should sweep, then home against Arizona and Jacksonville which we should at least be able to split, then the last one at the 49ers who we should be able to beat quite handily. I predict we can come away with a 7-9 or 8-8 record out of this and it is the NFL where anything can happen. Who would have thought that the Dolphins would beat the Patriots last year? The Bills started 0-4 and finished 9-7 and the Packers were similar to that last year.
Either way we have improved every year so far, and after losing some key defensive players (which I think was pretty dumb to cut) I think at equal 7-9 record would be alright this year, but obviously I want and hope for better. Saying that the best thing for our team would be to go 3-13 and completely trash our team and start over again is plain stupid. If we did that, four years from now we'll be in the same spot and you people will be whining that we need to rebuild again. We have to keep and build on the talent that we have and definitely make some changes, but throwing in the season and being the worst team and completely rebuilding helps no one.