Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and senior NFL writer Frank Schwab react Cincinnati losing a 10-point lead late and falling to Baltimore at home 41-38 in overtime. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on , , or
If you’re Cincinnati, think about, think about how th the margins are in the NFL.
You’re one and three, you need this game.
You’re gonna be tied with the Ravens at two and three.
If you win this game, they’re lining up, they basically settled for a 52 yard field goal, which I still don’t like, even though I know kickers are kind of automatic now from 60 on in whatever, but they kind of settled.
We’re gonna just kick the 50 yarder in overtime and get out of here and win the game and are holder drops the ball?
That’s the difference between Cincinnati feeling good about itself.
Hey, we’re two or 3 September is done.
We’re the October Bengals now, we’re back.
We’re, we’re tied with the Ravens.
We can catch the Steelers still.
There’s no big deal and the miss the botched, hold on the, uh, on the snap of the field goal is them being one and four and now they’re in a huge huge hole.
It’s gonna be really tough to get out of one thing.
I said, I’m gonna repeat myself.
I do like to take victory laps here and there.
I said I might go back and read my Bengals team preview.
I said, if you’re just thinking that Joe Burrow’s injury was the only reason the Bengals had a disappointing year last year.
You’re not looking under the hood enough.
This is the Bengals team.
It’s got a lot wrong with them in including our defense that just has kind of fallen apart over the last calendar year.
And now, you know, like you said, Burrow is awesome in this game.
Like, you can’t play much better as an NFL quarterback than he played today and they still lost at home.
It’s just, you’re one in four now and, and you gotta wonder, yes, they’re a talented team.
They could get out of this thing, but will they is the defense good enough to get them out of this?
I is a run like is consistent running game.
Can they get, that is the offensive line good enough of you got Joe Burrow, you got a couple of great receivers.
But do you have enough around those guys to dig out of a one and four hole?
I don’t know that they do.
This was a crushing loss for you could, you know, i it’s, it’s one of those things where in a normal circumstance you say, oh, you just lost to the Ravens.
Ravens are one of the NF L’s best teams, not really a big deal.
This is a big deal for them because I, I just don’t know how they can get out of this.
Indulge me for a moment.
Let me oversimplify and I’m gonna give you a couple of numbers.
I’m just gonna read off these numbers and then I’ll explain myself.
6153.
All right.
This is not some magical code.
That is the number of points that the Bengals lost by in each of their losses so far this season.
615 and three.
And I say that because you and I have sat on this show repeatedly and said, how do you beat the Chiefs?
Because let’s be real.
The Chiefs are always going to be in a close game and they are always going to win those close games.
It’s no longer luck.
It’s part of their identity.
It’s part of their DNA.
It’s part of what makes the Chiefs, the Chiefs part of what makes the Bengals the Bengals right now is in those same exact situations when they desperately need a kick when they desperately need a play, when they desperately need a stop.
Part of the identity of this year’s Cincinnati Bengals is they can’t get it.
