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Some thought the overtime coin flip spelled doom for the Cincinnati Bengals in Sunday’s AFC championship.  Surely Patrick Mahomes would march down the field like he did against the Buffalo Bills to secure a third straight Super Bowl trip for the Kansas City Chiefs. Instead, he threw an ill-advised deep ball to Tyreek Hill into double coverage that safety Jessie Bates tipped into cornerback Vonn Bell‘s hands for a game-shifting interception that set up Cincinnati’s 27-24 win. It was an… Source link

Losing the coin toss in overtime isn’t a death sentence, though you heard a lot about how the rules were unfair to the Buffalo Bills after an AFC divisional-round loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.  To get the ball to your offense, the defense needs to keep the opponent out of the end zone on the first drive. And that’s what the Cincinnati Bengals did.  The Chiefs won the coin toss after tying a thrilling AFC championship game with a field goal as time expired in regulation, and there were… Source link

The Cincinnati Bengals caught a bad break early in Sunday’s AFC championship game that might have cost them points. Trailing the Kansas City Chiefs, 7-0 after the latest rendition of Patrick Mahomes wizardry, the Bengals looked to answer with a drive into red zone on their second possession. On second-and-10 from the Kansas City 14-yard line, Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow looked to wideout Tee Higgins in the end zone.  Higgins got his left hand on the ball, but Chiefs cornerback Rashad… Source link

With just over 11 minutes remaining in the Week 17 game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Cincinnati Bengals, CBS broadcaster Tony Romo had a premonition. Romo and Jim Nantz had just been talking about “The Catch,” the famous Joe Montana-to-Dwight Clark touchdown in the 1981 season’s NFC championship, vaulting the San Francisco 49ers into their first Super Bowl to face this same Bengals franchise, allowing for a natural tie-in to this game. With the Bengals holding a slim edge over the… Source link

The Cincinnati Bengals are preparing to travel where they’ve never been before. No, not Kansas City. But an AFC championship game on the road. The Bengals have twice played in and won the AFC championship. But both of those games in their 80s heyday were played in the friendly confines of Riverfront Stadium. On Sunday they’ll travel to one of the least-hospitable stadiums in sports for the highest-stakes round of NFL football not played at a neutral site. Preparing for Arrowhead Stadium is a… Source link

Oddsmakers aren’t putting much stock in the Bengals’ regular-season win over the Chiefs. Kansas City is a 7.5-point favorite over Cincinnati in the AFC championship game despite the Bengals’ 34-31 win in Week 17. The Chiefs are hosting the AFC title game for a record fourth consecutive season after defeating the Buffalo Bills, 42-36, in an overtime thriller that will go down as one of the best playoff games in NFL history. The Bengals advanced to the AFC championship game with a 19-16… Source link

It is colossally unfair to put a second-year quarterback’s name in the same sentence as the two greatest to play the game. But if you watched Joe Burrow on Saturday night, when he was sacked nine times and hit 13, yet still had the calm to stand in the pocket and deliver a 19-yard pass to put the Cincinnati Bengals in game-winning field-goal range, it was hard not to see Joe Montana and Tom Brady. The stage, the pressure, the stakes. And Burrow stepped up into the pocket and found super rookie… Source link

Tennessee Titans safety Kevin Byard was asked last week if he’d view this season as a disappointment if it didn’t end with a Super Bowl ring. Yes, he answered. “We’ve accomplished some good things,” Byard said. “But when the playoffs start, none of that stuff means anything.” He was right. It didn’t. For Saturday’s AFC divisional playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals at frenzied Nissan Stadium, the Titans were as rested and healthy as they’ve been all season. They had Source link

The Cincinnati Bengals started playing football in 1968. They had never won a road playoff game before Saturday night.  It seems impossible to go more than 50 years without one road playoff win. But the Bengals stood at 0-7 in those matchups.  Things are changing.  The Bengals, whose last playoff win before this season came in January of 1991, won their second playoff game in a week and are moving on to the AFC championship game with a 19-16 win over the Tennessee Titans, the No. 1 seed in… Source link

Text messages were flying all over Cincinnati and beyond on Saturday night in celebration of the Bengals‘ playoff win over the Las Vegas Raiders. Given that pretty much everyone texts now, that was to be expected. But it took on more significance after one fact circulated on social media: The last time the Bengals won at this time of year was Jan. 6, 1991. The first text message sent happened on Dec. 3, 1992. That’s how long ago it was. The thing that for so many of us has become ubiquitous, our… Source link