It was 20-6 with 12 minutes left in the fourth quarter, and the Cincinnati quarterback turned into Machine Gun Burrow. This is what happened Sunday: The Bengals muffed two punts and a kickoff in the first half and the Niners turned them into 10 points and took a 17-6 halftime lead. But it’s fun to ride the roller coaster with teams that are extremely close in talent and performance and ability. Too early to say if it’s a trend or if it’s a coincidence, this NFL egalitarianism. Howling winds and driving rain at 10:30 a.m. Exiting this game, through 14 weeks, the Bengals were out and the 49ers in. The Bengals, through 12 games, were in the AFC playoffs and the 49ers just out of the NFC playoffs. The Bengals and Niners were hot, then both slipped on banana peels last week, and both came into this game in prime playoff shape. I came here to see the perfect metaphor for the 2021 NFL season.
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Twenty-four of the 32 teams in pro football have at least six wins and are legitimately still in the playoff race. We’re in the final month of the NFL’s 102nd season, and it feels like the game has never been closer.
“I mean, every game’s a playoff game these days, right?” he said. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)ĬINCINNATI - “That was a damn playoff game out there,” said George Kittle, still fired up in his John Lennon yellow-tinted sunglasses, in the tunnel of Paul Brown Stadium on Sunday night, an hour after Niners 26, Bengals 23.Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).