Chief_N_Bama |
01-31-2024 07:23 PM |
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Originally Posted by DRM08
(Post 17378797)
They barely beat the Raiders & Titans because their offense with Burrow is overrated as hell. The Cincy defense carried them to those wins. And they held a very hot Stafford to 23 points after he torched the defending champs Tampa in their house.
The following year in the Playoffs the Bengals shutdown Josh Allen to only 10 points in his stadium. A much worse version of the Bengals defense this year held Josh Allen to 17 points. Their 2021 defense would have done just fine against him, based on what they did against a pretty hot Stafford & Mahomes and based on what they've done against Allen in 2022 and 2023.
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What happens the following year is WHOLLY irrelevant. There is no transitive property in football. Chiefs beat the bengals the second time after losing the first. Ravens lost to the titans after losing to them first. Josh has a winning record against the Chiefs in the regular season. Burrow is undefeated. Burrow has a losing record to Baker. So, what happened the following year doesn’t tell you much about what would have happened the prior year.
And if the Bengals offense was overrated how do you support they would have faired against the #1 defense in the league??? The Bills were better on both sides of the ball and it wasn’t close. Bills would have been as big of favorites as the chiefs were. And Josh was “hotter” than Stafford.
There is zero reason to believe the bengals would have beaten the bills except that the bengals beat the Chiefs. And that literally required an epic collapse of the best qb in the game.
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