Joe Burrow tells AlbertBreer, “We don’t worry about what anybody else says” about the Bengals being legit Super Bowl contenders. Plus much more in this week’s Ten Takeaways
, and the winner, Kansas City, wound up losing championship weekend. Which left, yes, the Bengals to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl.“We know who we are,” Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow told me early Sunday night when I asked about his team being routinely skipped on lists of contenders. “We don’t worry about what anybody else says. We know exactly what we have here in this locker room. And we’re just going to go show it each week.
And that left Burrow and Higgins to, collectively, throw the knockout blow. The Bengals got the ball back with 3:19 left and, in two plays, churned out a first down that forced the Chiefs to start calling timeouts. Three plays later, it was third-and-5, and Burrow found Ja’Marr Chase in the right flat, hemmed in by the sideline. Chase put his shoulder down and ground out the first down, drawing plenty of praise for it on the broadcast. Hidden in there was Higgins’s role in freeing him up.
Which would sound like a silly premise, especially if you heard it before you saw what happened next. “The organization has done a great job of finding players where it means a lot to ’em—they’re going to work really hard to do whatever they can to help the team get a win,” Burrow says. “And Tee, the last two games, had over 100 yards and several touchdowns, and he came up with key blocks and key catches today, and you can say that for just about every guy in this locker room.”You certainly shouldn’t be surprised anymore.
“I had been getting cut a ton by their backs and tight ends, so I was kind of getting used to playing it,” Bosa says. “And whenever you put a running back on me, unless I get my knees taken out, I have a pretty good chance of getting through, and I was happy to have that one.” That teamwork got the ball back for the 49ers with 2:48 left, allowing time for the 11-play, 76-yard drive Purdy piloted just before the break to put San Francisco up 17–10.
And when it was over, Bosa was atop the NFL’s sack charts, having notched 14.5 with five games to go and, again, the conversation about San Francisco’s defense was turning to where it might rank among the best defenses of the past few years in the league. “Josh is going to try to find a way to get somebody open, and win,” says guard Rodger Saffold as the play rolled, before breaking out laughing once Allen left his feet to throw the ball. “I mean, it’s incredible. To be able to make a throw like that across his body while running to the right is just absolutely incredible. … These are all split-second decisions, so hopefully, that arm is feeling a little bit better this week.
“Obviously, if I keep going, I’m just going to keep staying covered,” Davis says, “so he just knows to put it backside and I’m going to stop and go behind him. “ I think the coolest story I heard last week was that Patriots coach Bill Belichick paid Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell a visit after the two squared off on Thanksgiving night.
Because a field goal was out of the question, Vikings defensive coordinator Ed Donatell and his troops were working with some cushion. Which, the coaches thought, played to the strengths of a unit that’s hardly been dominant, but has proved plenty resourceful in key spots. It had to be again Sunday, with Mike White leading both Jets drives into the red zone—the first one got to first-and-goal from the four-yard line, and the second one got to first-and-10 from the 19.
And, in a certain way, that defense honored O’Connell’s old boss along the way in rising to the moment to get the first-year head coach to 10–2 with five games to go. “Yeah, honestly, we gotta get used to that,” Smith says. “That’s what the playoffs are like. That’s what Super Bowl games, that’s how they’re won. All the games in the NFL really come down to either two-minute or four-minute drives. You can count on that. So if you want to go where we intend to go, we gotta win those games like that. It doesn’t matter what the situation is, if we got the ball in our hands with a chance to go win the game, we gotta go win those games.
And another box for the resurgent Seahawks to check after those soul-crushing losses to Tampa Bay and Las Vegas. What was left unsaid is that the other players have already publicly backed the idea of getting Beckham, making it highly unlikely that the Joneses won’t make a serious run at signing him in the next few days. And since Beckham’s already been wined and dined by the Giants and Bills , there’s a little tension to this thing for all involved.
Brown finished with eight catches for 119 yards and two touchdowns, with the second one coming on a throw from Jalen Hurts, where the quarterback simply trusted Brown to find a way to make a play, even though he was covered, and the receiver rewarded that trust with a 29-yard touchdown, caught literally off the back of corner Tre Avery.
• I think Chargers coach Brandon Staley may have to take a hard look at the offensive system and coaching that Justin Herbert’s working with. He still has some spectacular moments. But for all the talent around him, it’s still not consistent enough.
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