On Sunday Night Football, Joe Burrow as well as the Bengals beat Josh Allen.
Joe Burrow as well as the Bengals won their fourth straight game on Sunday night, beating the Buffalo Bills very well. This came after an uncharacteristic start to the season.
The Bengals easily won 24–18 at Paycor Stadium. They scored on the initial two plays of the night.
Burrow completed all six passes on the first drive of the game and then threw a touchdown pass of 7 yards to Irv Smith to end it.
The Bills scored right back with a touchdown when Josh Allen ran in from 2 yards out, but that was the final time they scored until the very end of the game.
A 2-yard run by Joe Mixon gave the Bengals a 14–7 lead just before the end of the first quarter. Right before halftime, Burrow found Drew Sample on a 22-yard touchdown.
After the break, the Bills made a field goal, but they missed it. They also made the Bills lose a fumble after an Dalton Kincaid grab deep to the red zone, which stopped their best chance to score before the start of the fourth quarter. This pretty much sealed the win.
In the first three games of the season, Cincinnati lost all three, including a pair of blowout losses to the Browns and Titans in which they scored only three points.
It looked like Joe Burrow’s calf injury would ruin what looked like one of their best chances to finally win the Super Bowl.
Fans thought this would be a battle of the offenses between two top leaders. So it looked like that’s how the game would go after the first three plays.
The Bengals scored a touchdown on their first drive after only nine plays, and the Bills scored on their next drive after only seven plays and 3:15. After a 5:28 scoring run, the Bengals took the lead again.
After that, though, “Mad Scientist” Lou Anarumo’s defense kept Josh Allen as well as the Bills from scoring for most of the rest of the game.
The next four plays of the half ended with a punt, an interception, another punt, and the end of the half.
However, Burrow and the Bengals had some problems in Buffalo territory. On their last drive of the first half, they scored a touchdown to take a two-score cushion into halftime.
The Bengals were held to just three points within the second half, and Buffalo scored a field goal on their first drive.
Allen finally got the Bills back in the end zone with a 17-yard pass to Diggs with 3:32 left, and a subsequent 2-point attempt made it a six-point game.
Joe Burrow as well as the Bengals won their fourth straight game on Sunday night, beating the Buffalo Bills very well. This came after an uncharacteristic start to the season.
The Bengals easily won 24–18 at Paycor Stadium. They scored on the initial two plays of the night.
Burrow completed all six passes on the first drive of the game and then threw a touchdown pass of 7 yards to Irv Smith to end it.
The Bills scored right back with a touchdown when Josh Allen ran in from 2 yards out, but that was the final time they scored until the very end of the game.
A 2-yard run by Joe Mixon gave the Bengals a 14–7 lead just before the end of the first quarter. Right before halftime, Burrow hit Drew Sample for a 22-yard touchdown.
Allen did a good job tonight, going 26 for 38 for 258 yards, but he additionally threw an interception over the fifth game in a row. It took six catches for Diggs to get 86 yards.
Damar Hamlin, a safety for the Bills, went into heart arrest on Jan. 2 and almost died there, but he was saved on the field. This game was his return to Cincinnati.
Hamlin wasn’t in the game because he was a member of Buffalo’s reserve players. He watched from the stands.
On a slow first drive, Burrow completed six passes for 65 yards. He ended it with a seven-yard pass for Smith, who scored his first touchdown of the season.
After the Vikings’ score, the Bills quickly scored, with Diggs’ 34-yard catch-and-run and Allen’s 2-yard touchdown run capping the drive.