In a grinding game of giveaway at Sunday’s Paul Brown Stadium opener, the Bengals defense answered the bell early in the fourth quarter when they sacked Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers on his own goal line and it turned into a back-breaking 38-yard touchdown drive finished off by quarterback Andy Dalton’s third touchdown pass of the […]
Bengals open season with 33-13 win over Raiders
In his return trip to The Black Hole, Bengals offensive coordinator Hue Jackson wasted no time emptying the kitchen sink on Cincinnati’s first series of the season and then tight end Tyler Eifert supplied the hammer by establishing career highs of nine catches for 104 yards as the Bengals rolled to a 33-13 Opening Day […]
Colts bounce Bengals from playoffs 26-10
If you saw the Bengals’ 27-0 loss here back on Oct. 19, you saw what transpired in the second half of Sunday’s painful 26-10 loss to the Colts that made it the fourth straight year they’ve lost an AFC Wild Card Game. After pulling to within 13-10 with 15 seconds left in the first half […]
Bengals come up short at Pittsburgh, lose 27-17
As always, the AFC North comes down to turnovers and the Steelers won the 2014 crown Sunday night at Heinz Field when the Bengals were driving for the winning touchdown and cornerback Antwon Blake ripped the ball from wide receiver A.J. Green at the Steelers 30 with 3:51 left to preserve Pittsburgh’s 27-17 victory Sunday […]
Defense carries Bengals over Broncos 37-28 and into playoffs
In a driving rain the Bengals’ relentless special teams and their resilient defense carried their limping offense into the postseason when they teamed to give the Bengals a 37-28 victory over Denver Monday night before a delirious crowd of 66,107 at dancing and drenched Paul Brown Stadium. The third largest crowd in PBS history saw […]
Bengals blank Browns 30-0 in Manziel’s debut
With the season on the line, the Bengals defense went out and made a money grab Sunday at FirstEnergy Stadium when they hijacked Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel’s first NFL start in the third greatest stand in franchise history during the 30-0 victory that put them a win away from their fourth straight postseason with two […]
Bengals collapse late in 42-21 loss to Steelers
Sunday’s AFC North slobber-knocker at sold-out Paul Brown turned into a display of offensive heavyweights but the game spun on one of those old-fashioned turnovers when the Bengals’ four-point lead dissolved into a 14-point deficit during a dizzying span of 6:29 in the fourth quarter of a 42-21 loss to the Steelers before 65,512. The […]
Bengals Beat Buccaneers 14-13
They gave him three large bags of I.V. fluids Sunday morning and by the time they got back to Cincinnati Sunday night the gag was maybe he would have thrown four interceptions if they had given him the fourth bag. But the joke was on the rest of the AFC North, because if “Andy 2.0,” […]
Bengals Beat Texans 22-13 to Hold First Place
Mike Nugent hit an ice-cold 49-yard field goal with 1:55 left in the game that gave the Bengals enough breathing room for a 22-13 victory over the Texans that kept them in first place in the wild AFC North at 7-3-1. They took eight minutes off the clock at NRG Stadium with 17 plays and […]
Bengals Beat Saints 27-10
If you’re an Andy Dalton basher, you probably won’t want to read this because Sunday is why Dalton and A.J. Green have an era named after them. With the 27-10 cold-blooded hacking of the Saints’ high-tech offense, the Dr. Jekyll Bengals are making sure no one runs away and Hydes in the AFC North race. […]