![]() ![]() He’s the team’s specific tight-end stopper, which instead means first-round rookie Dax Hill (who got flagged three times last week) will likely get the assignment on Bills tight end Dawson Knox - a guy who has scored a touchdown in five straight games. Buffalo has had to blitz more to counter, which if it happens Sunday, is something Burrow usually exploits.Īn underrated problem for the Bengals? Top corner Chidobe Awuzie is out for the season and now Tre Flowers is doubtful going into this one. Burrow already gets the ball out faster than most quarterbacks in the league anyway and the Bills will be without Von Miller, the guy tied for a team-high with eight sacks in just 12 games. The Cincinnati offense will shift to compensate, yet it’s not all that different from what they did last year en route to the Super Bowl. That’s three of five starters missing after the unit had the most snaps of any starting five played together for most of the season.Īnd yet it’s almost hard to predict how that will actually impact things. The other major storyline is the battered state of the offensive line in front of Joe Burrow, which will start Jackson Carman at left tackle (for Jonah Williams), Max Scharping at right guard (Alex Cappa) and Hakeem Adeniji at right tackle (La’el Collins). After all, the Bengals have won nine games in a row, the Bills eight. One, if not both teams, should look quite a bit better on Sunday. While that’s a big talking point, it’s grain-of-salt material too - division games are tough, especially a third time. Meanwhile, the Bills hardly slipped past a Dolphins team starting a third-string passer. In that round, the Bengals needed a record-breaking defensive play from Sam Hubbard to escape the Ravens starting a backup quarterback. So when looking ahead to this one, not only isn’t there that prior matchup to consider, but both teams looked so-so in the wild card round against division rivals. Onlookers know the biggest overarching storyline - this is a rematch of the no-contest in Week 17, what was supposed to be one of the biggest games of the year before Damar Hamlin’s medical emergency. This year it’s a trip to Buffalo to play Josh Allen and the Bills. The Cincinnati Bengals once again sit one game removed from the AFC title game.Ī year ago, it was overcoming a trip to Tennessee to play Derrick Henry and the Titans. ![]()
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