The thought of the Bengals blowing a 22–0 lead to the Patriots seemed ridiculous with 19 minutes left Vonn Bell tells AlbertBreer about the drill that might have saved Cincinnati’s shot at home field advantage
There was a point in the Bengals-Patriots game Saturday where the whole thing had taken on the look of Alabama beating down The Citadel the week before the Iron Bowl.
The trouble started with 19 minutes left and the score still 22–0. A third-and-1 conversion to get the Bengals inside the Patriots’ 30, again was negated by a holding call, and a miscommunication between Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase sent a Burrow throw into the arms of New England’s most explosive player, Marcus Jones, who returned the interception 69 yards for a touchdown.
The first is in an inside-run drill the Bengals practice with their defensive players, where they put bags down on the field and have the back try to run between the bags, with two defenders fitting the run. The first defender form-tackles the back, and the second defender goes after the ball—it’s pretty standard for training camp, and Cincinnati makes a point to keep doing it in season. So Bell’s been working on his punch .
“Things happen,” Bell says. “They got a pick-six, a fumble, they got the little Hail Mary pass. Things happen. They get paid, too. We just wanted to finish. We want to play a perfect game. But adversity happens, and you gotta know how to respond. So that’s why I said that’s what makes it so great for this team, to find out a way to win in times of unconventional things that are happening in the game, in the moment.
The thought that the players would stay engaged at that point—particularly with an interim coach who was trying to sell the team on the idea of becoming a dominant, physical, run-heavy group, and do it without McCaffrey—seemed laughable. But Steve Wilks believed his players would get there, and the players believed it, too, and that, it turns out, was enough, as the rest of us were projecting the Panthers’ draft position for April.
As Foreman explained that, I said to him that it sounded like Wilks was almost taking the team back to training camp. He agreed and mentioned that, while the coaches aren’t running practices like they would in the summer, the pads have been on during the week, and that’s helped the Panthers “just stay on track, stay focused and just keep getting the right fits. It’s been paying off for us.”
In the second half, the effects of the run game took hold. On the Panthers’ first possession of the third quarter, Darnold went up top for 47 yards off play-action to D.J. Moore, then hit him for a five-yard score on the next play. And how much better the Panthers have gotten was coming into focus. And there’s a decent chance that by the time we get there, Baltimore will start to look like the sort of team that no one wants to play. Sure, it’s been a weird season—mostly because of an injury bug going around the team that bit Lamar Jackson three weeks ago.
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