The Bengals were close to having a great record, but close doesn’t count in football.
Bengals Week 5 Postgame Quotes
“I’m sick to my stomach for our guys in there. They fought. I’m proud of them, but we’ve got to find a way to win. We can’t keep coming up one play short, and that’s really what the game came down to.”
Ravens at Bengals Postgame Notes and Quotes
One play after the Cincinnati Bengals‘ Evan McPherson missed a 53-yard field goal that would have won the game with 4:31 left in overtime, Ravens running back Derrick Henry raced 51 yards to set up Justin Tucker’s winning chip shot in Baltimore’s wild 41-38 victory before 66,341 sun-splashed fans at Paycor Stadium.
Joe Burrow Sent Harsh Message to Bengals After Overtime Loss to Ravens
“We’re not a championship-level team right now. We’re not,” said Burrow to reporters after the game, via ESPN’s Ben Baby. “I’d like to think that we’ll come back and improve throughout the season to get to that point. But right now, we are not. And we have to get better.”
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“We still believe in each other and we have a tremendous opportunity to show what we’re about going forward,” Taylor said after the loss. “People can write us off if they really want to. I’m not dumb enough to do that.
Cincinnati Bengals rookie Amarius Mims leaves game on a cart.
“I gave up a tackle for a loss, and during the process of giving up the tackle for a loss I got spun around and just kicked my ankle that I previous had surgery on this past year,” Mims said. “I just went into a little shock. Probably just hit a couple of nerves in it.”
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The Bengals lost a heartbreaker to the Ravens in Week 5, falling 41-38 at home in overtime. They squandered a 38-28 fourth-quarter lead to drop to 1-4, already putting their playoff chances on life support.
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The Bengals nearly got a very similar result on Sunday, coughing up a career day from Joe Burrow in a really tough loss with a shot to save their season before things got too dark.
Joe Burrow can’t do it all, Bengals season is lost
Turns out, Burrow needed to be perfect. He needs to be perfect every game – and that’s impossible. Even in a game where Burrow threw a career-high five touchdowns, completed 77% of his passes and threw for nearly 400 yards, the Bengals lost 41-38 in overtime to the Ravens at Paycor Stadium.
Cincinnati Bengals get conservative in OT and it costs them a win against Baltimore.
But 1,029 days later, history repeated itself Sunday after at Paycor Stadium when Taylor took the ball out of Burrow’s hands in overtime again and suffered what is sure to be another sleep-sapping loss because of it.
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On a 2nd and 15, Burrow looked to his right in an attempt to find his top wideout, Ja’Marr Chase, on a post towards the middle of the field.
Ted Karras Discusses Cincinnati Bengals 1-4 Start: ‘Would Be Kings’
“I’d say the tale of the tape is we are the Would-Be Kings,” Karras told our Elise Jesse. “We are four possessions away from having a great record, but we’re not and we gotta find it within ourselves to finish out these games, make a play when we need it. And good on the Ravens, they made a play, and we didn’t.”
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The snap for two of the NFL’s best kickers. The Ravens got the snap right when Justin Tucker tied the game at 38 with 1:35 left in regulation on a 56-yard field goal. The Bengals didn’t when rookie holder Ryan Rehkow failed to get the snap down for what would have been Evan McPherson’s winning 53-yarder with 4:31 left in overtime.
