Some of the Bengals’ star players are letting the frustrations show after a terrible loss.
Bengals Week 11 Postgame Quotes
“Our guys were just confident. I mean, over the years we’ve been in these situations before and you’ve just got to take it one possession at a time. That’s all we preached at halftime. That’s what we preached after every possession to start the third quarter. The defense just kept making stops, the offense just kept scoring points and guys kept stepping up and making plays and you thought, with no doubt, ‘we’re going to finish this thing off.’ We had our opportunities, we crossed the 50 a couple of times and just couldn’t get seven or three on the board. They got one more possession and then they knocked it in and that’s just the story of the game.”
After Bengals’ Huge Comeback Falls Short, Zac Taylor Still Has Playoff Berth In Sights; Ja’Marr Chase, Tee Higgins Re-Unite In Style | POSTGAME QUICK HITS
“I do. I’m not saying it to convince others,” Taylor said after his team fell to 4-7 with six of the losses coming by seven points or less. “I say what I believe right now. When you watch this team compete, the guys we’ve got, the coaches we’ve got. I love going to work every single day.
Ja’Marr Chase, Bengals short on answers after latest close loss
For yet another time this season, Cincinnati saw a potential win slip away in a 34-27 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday night. Six of Cincinnati’s seven losses have been one-possession defeats. While Chase was lacking for solutions, he did have a potential starting point — ask coach Zac Taylor.
Cincinnati Bengals fall to Los Angeles Chargers as frustration mounts.
The Bengals fell into a massive 27-6 hole but rallied to tie the game at 27-27 with 12:21 remaining, with Chase scoring two of the team’s touchdowns during the comeback.
Bengals’ Joe Burrow makes NFL history in most painful way possible, plus 14 more wild stats from Week 11 – CBSSports.com
During the Bengals 34-27 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, Burrow threw for 356 yards and three touchdowns with zero interceptions, but STILL lost. This actually marks the third time this season that the Bengals have lost a game where he threw for at least 300 yards with at least three touchdowns and zero interceptions, which makes Burrow the ONLY QB since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970 to lose three games in a single season with those stats.
Bengals’ Evan McPherson among five 2024 kickers with career-low FG percentage after missed kicks vs. Chargers – CBSSports.com
Is it a good time to be a kicker in the NFL? It sure seemed like it early in 2024, when fresh legs like Brandon Aubrey of the Dallas Cowboys made even 50-yard field goals look routine. Lately, however, some of the league’s most accomplished special teamers have fallen into serious ruts. That was rarely clearer than in Week 11, when All-Pros like Jake Elliott and Justin Tucker missed multiple field goals apiece.
Bengals suffer frustrating loss despite second-half comeback against Chargers
Evan McPherson has had two chances to give the Bengals the lead, but missed them both. McPherson is now 6/12 in 40+ yard field goals this season.
Bengals WR Tee Higgins Sums Up Bengals Issues This Season: ‘Finish The F*****g Game’
“I don’t think we need to change nothing,” Higgins said about the team. “We playing hella good football. If you look at the stats, both sides of the ball, like today, We played hella good football. I don’t know what it is, man, we just got to finish. That’s the word. That is the word for the week, finish the f*****g game. So as long as we do that, we’ll be alright. I’m gonna look past this one. Obviously, it’s a tough loss. Hats off to those guys over there. Ain’t gonna discredit them. They played a hell of a game. We just got to go back, figure it out, and come back next week, two weeks, and finish.”
