The Cincinnati Bengals suffered a stunning loss on Sunday. The Bengals were leading by 10 points with six minutes left to play in the fourth quarter, but they ended up losing to the Baltimore Ravens in overtime, 41-38.
The Bengals actually had a chance to win in overtime, but their play-calling got conservative and it’s something that’s not sitting well with two of the team’s biggest stars: Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins.
With game tied at 38 in OT, the Bengals defense came up with its biggest play of the day when Germaine Pratt recovered a Lamar Jackson fumble on Baltimore’s first possession of overtime. Thanks to the turnover, the Bengals took possession at the Ravens’ 38-yard line needing just a field goal to win the game.
After watching the Joe Burrow light up the Ravens defense during regulation, the Bengals decided to take the ball out of his hands during overtime by running the ball three straight times. At that point, Burrow had thrown for 392 yards and a career-high five touchdowns, but in overtime, he didn’t throw a single pass.
Higgins, who caught nine passes for 83 yards and two touchdowns, doesn’t seem to agree with what the Bengals did. The receiver would have liked to see the team go with at least one pass.
“Personally, I think we should have gone a little bit more aggressive in the first and second downs just to try to get Evan in better field goal range,” Higgins said after the game, via NFL.com.
Brown’s three runs went for a total of three yards, which set up a 53-yard field goal attempt for Evan McPherson to win the game. However, the kick ended up missing after a high snap from Cal Adomitis and a bad hold from Ryan Rehkow.
“You know he makes those from that deep,” Higgins said of McPherson. “I’m not putting it on him at all, you know what I’m saying. So it’s a team effort, we lost as a team, but we could have did a better job at putting him…
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Author : John Breech
Publish date : 2024-10-07 16:00:11
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