(My Sportsbook) - The Cincinnati Bengals enter this week's contest against New Orleans with nothing left to play for after dropping its sixth straight game last week, 29-15, to Jacksonville.

The Bengals have lost their will to win and seem to expect to lose on a weekly basis. Starting QB Jon Kitna has been attempting to change the losing attitude of the team all season long.

"You have to expect to win. Right now, I don't know how many people expect to win. It's hard. I'm not saying you have to expect to win because you're 1-13, but you can't think you have to play the perfect game to win a football game because it isn't going to happen," said Kitna.

"We're not playing teams that are that great, to be honest. We have to go out and know that if you do the majority of things right, good things are going to happen for you. And if you don't beat yourself."

After quite a few impressive weeks, Kitna and the Bengals' offense struggled versus the Jags. Kitna still threw for 258 yards, but he didn't register a touchdown and was intercepted once in the loss. Also, Kitna managed to complete only 22-of-42 passes (52.4 percent) in the contest.

The Bengals were able to get the ball into the Jacksonville red zone on a number of occasions, but managed to tally just one touchdown in the contest. Kitna can't seem to figure out what is wrong with his team's red zone offense.

"We seem to struggle when we get to the one-yard line for some reason. We can't run it in, we can't throw it in. We're having problems. We're having to call quarterback draws to get it in. We just need to be a little more creative down there...I don't know," said Kitna.

"When you get down inside the 10-yard line you have to be really, really creative. You're not just going to be able to line up and do some things. Maybe we need to do some different things...I don't know. You have to somehow present some problems for them on defense. You can't just allow them to line up and play their standard red-zone coverage, which is a lot of times dropping seven or eight guys into a 15-yard area."

Cincy struggled to establish RB Corey Dillon versus the Jags, as he managed only 59 yards on 21 carries (2.8 ypc) in the loss. Dillon hasn't recorded a 100-yard game since Week 10 versus Baltimore.

CLINCHING TOP PICK?

With a loss or a Detroit loss to Atlanta, the Bengals will clinch the top pick in the upcoming draft. In fact, Cincy would have to win their final two and have Detroit drop its last two to miss out on the first selection in the draft.

"It's certainly not the position we thought we would be in," Bengals offensive tackle Willie Anderson said.

It would mark the second time in 10 years that the Bengals would secure the No.1 pick outright. In 1994, Cincinnati selected defensive tackle Dan "Big Daddy" Wilkinson with the top pick.

COMING UP: Cincinnati finishes up its season at Buffalo next week.