One of the big stories of this NFL playoffs has been a potential AFC Championship between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs. If those teams met, the game would be played in Atlanta. But Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals had other ideas.
Burrow’s Bengals absolutely smacked the Bills in Buffalo during a snowstorm. The final score was 27-10, but the game wasn’t even that close. Cincinnati scored a touchdown on its first drive. And then again on their second drive.
They never trailed.
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The Bengals quarterback had a message for fans who bought neutral site AFC Championship tickets.
Joe Burrow and the Bengals are heading back to their second consecutive AFC title game after a dominant 27–10 win over the Bills in Buffalo on Sunday.
Burrow completed 23-of-36 passes for 242 yards and two touchdowns to pace the Bengals’ offense in the victory.
“It was a complete game from everybody,” Burrow told CBS’ Tracy Wolfson after the game. “Offense, defense, special teams from start to finish. That’s what we expected. The job’s not finished.
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The defending AFC champions will now face the Chiefs, and Burrow makes it clear that “the job’s not finished.”
The Cincinnati Bengals became the first road team to prevail in the 2023 Divisional Round, toppling the Buffalo Bills in the snow in a surprisingly one-sided 27-10 victory.
While the story of this game is undoubtedly the stellar performance by the Cincinnati defense on Josh Allen and the Bills offense, the tone was set early by quarterback Joe Burrow.
Joe Burrow threw for two TDs and Joe Mixon ran for 105 yards and a TD as the Bengals dominated the Bills in the divisional round.
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The Cincinnati Bengals offensive line was shorthanded, but they dominated the Bills. Meanwhile, it was Josh Allen who struggled from a poor offensive line.
Going into Sunday’s Divisional Round game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Buffalo Bills, one of the biggest storylines was the concern about the Bengals offensive line. Cincinnati entered the game without three starters—left tackle Jonah Williams, right guard Alex Cappa and right tackle La’el Collins—in the lineup.
The emotion of this Bills’ season seemed to set up a dream ending. On Sunday, another Super Bowl contender had other plans.
The script, it seemed, had been crafted. This was late-January playoff football in Buffalo. This was snow swirling, traffic jamming, and Bills Mafia out drinking and chanting and jumping through tables. Typical. And, ultimately, not typical at all.
This was at the end of a brutal year, even by the local standards, after the blizzard to end all blizzards and the racist mass shooting at a grocery store and Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest.
He can’t keep getting away with this!
Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Eli Apple is back to gobbling up the team’s success — gloating on the sideline as Cincy escapes another high-profile AFC matchup with a win.
On Sunday against the Buffalo Bills, Apple made sure to bring out his signature taunting, regardless of his minimul impact on the game.
Despite Josh Allen having an off day, Apple swallowed up the sub-par performance.