The Bengals are young. They are confident. And after surviving the Titans, they are now battle-tested. ConorOrr on a win that has a team and a quarterback believing:
In the weeks leading up to this game, the Bengals had gone from curiosity, to contender to invincible behind the arm of Burrow. Over the last 21 days, he became the first player in NFL history to throw for more than 1,200 yards, 10 or more touchdowns and no interceptions in that short a time span. He picked apart a Raiders three-deep zone that required precision throws on every play. He outdueled the Chiefs. He throttled the Ravens.
While none of that came easy, it felt seamless compared to Sunday, when Burrow experienced a pummeling unlike anything he’d seen at the professional level. One sack, by Harold Landry, came just 2.6 seconds after the snap. According to Next Gen Stats, it was the quickest sack he’d ever taken in his career. This, already, after having come into the game as the most-sacked quarterback in football.
“I feel good,” Burrow said after the game. “Tomorrow morning might be a different story, but right now I feel great.”In the windows of rare pocket clarity, he was still brilliant, even if those moments seemed to dwindle with each possession. Afterwith the score tied at 16, Burrow got the ball at the Bengals’ 47-yard line with 20 seconds remaining. There was still enough wherewithal to determine, somehow, that he could move the ball into field goal range with a handful of plays.
It ended up just taking one, a floater to Ja’Marr Chase on an out-breaking route that landed right at the receiver’s chest before he stepped out of bounds. After, Burrow was one of the first people to grab hold of kicker Evan McPherson, shaking his head frantically like a parent who’d just found a lost child.
This is what it must feel like to take a city on your back and lug a team through the toughest division in football, through a chaotic opening-round playoff victory against a Raiders team that wouldn’t quit and now, through the No. 1 seed in the conference, coached by a ruthless former NFL defender who was swinging for the jugular.believable,” in his postgame press conference.
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