The Bengal tiger must have built something special here, because the pain of growing up is great.

On Sunday, they suffered another maddening defeat in the center of the playoffs, which cost them a heavy price, even though they defeated a very good 49ers in the quarterback with four points. The guard lost 26 to 23 at the Paul Brown Stadium.

It's hard to accept, because it looks like the Bengals will share first place with the Ravens in the North of the AFC this morning, if they can catch the punt.

But when the Bengals head coach Zach Taylor once again guessed through his overtime call that he and Bengals veteran cornerback Mike Hilton wanted to know how some of his teammates could not be better prepared for the biggest game of the year, Quarterback Jobrow showed to his old friend Ja'Marr Chase why his Bengals will become a contender for the next few years in the craziest months of this weirdest NFL season.

This is one of the games considered important enough by national authorities, including NBC’s respectable NFL reporter Peter King, who declared the Bengals legal and stayed here with the prodigy Borough.

When King caught the ball in his Hall of Fame 13 times for 151 yards (including a jump of 19 yard fingertips to catch the ball, which should have won the game with 13 seconds left), at the close end George Kittle ( When tracing the 49ers’ own organization in George Kittle, Kittle stated that the Bengals “play well now.”  

What's so good about this NFL?

In the Super Bowl just two years ago, the 49ers' offensive and defensive abilities were amazing, and their record was only 7-6. The Bengals have only won 6 games in the first two seasons. With 4 games left, they have returned to relevance with a score of 7-6. They didn't celebrate one of the NFL's top reversals, but wanted to know how good it would be after losing the last two games at home and making 6 turnovers.

still. still. Just a game ranked first in the AFC North.

After all, they took away the deep ball he rediscovered on Sunday a month later, and Burrow's passing score reached triple digits in 13 games. After hitting 348 yards for the second time this season, he is expected to break the Bengals' passing yardage record in the second consecutive 300-yard game.

He did it with a 74% pass rate. This season, his shooting percentage is 68.5%. The only season in the history of the Bengals that was better was Ken Anderson's iconic 70.55% in 1982. Forget about leading the league in those short passes. His 8.4 yards per attempt is the third best season ever for the Bengals, second only to Greg Cook's AFL rookie of the year with 9.4 yards in 1969 and Boomer Esiason's NFL MVP with 9.2 in 1988.

"Frankly, I don't think anyone wants to play against us," Taylor said, probably after Burrow fired the 49ers' 210-yard torch in the last 25 minutes.

What's pretty good in 2021 is:

Any other season and any other Bengals were eliminated with 9:20 remaining in the game, because Burrow was again chased by the ruthless 49ers with a pass and sprint with the fourth overall pick. But the Bangladeshi left another business card. Not defeating the Ravens 41-17 in October, nor defeating the Steelers with a total score of 50 points.

This is Burrow's fantastic throw to Chase, a dislocated pinky finger, etc., because he is stepping out of bounds for a 17-yard touchdown, and it seems that there are no fourth and fifth ups and downs, reducing the score to 20-13. Burrow called it Chase's favorite TD pass, which included their 20 letter jacket touchdowns two years ago and won every college award imaginable at Louisiana State University.

No wonder. When Burrow worked on the sideline, Chase worked on the endline. If he is Houdini of Baltimore, Chase is one of the flying Valendas because he pulls the rope from left to right, trying to help his partner.

"I will choose the Green Bay," Chase said at halftime in another overtime game between Paul and another NFC power agent, when Chase said of their 70-yard field goal.

Burrow and Chase have been unable to connect on that kind of deep ball lately. In fact, since his 82-yard catch in Baltimore and Houdini's disappearing touchdown on October 24, Chase's longest catch distance is 21 yards, which is back to Halloween.

Until Burrow lost a 32-yard dime on the goal line and scored a touchdown with 79 seconds left in the rule.

"The situation will only get worse," Chase said of all the defensive attention. "That's all I can say. I keep getting clouds (covering). I just (must go) on the fly, adjust on the fly, and play my game. Just cheer for the people next to me, such as Tee (hijin) S) and (Taylor Boyd) and (Joe) Mickelson. Those guys eat, we all eat. I'm just a team player trying to provide."

Chase ran more than 1,000 yards on Sunday, becoming the third Bangladeshi rookie to do this. But he has not received all his parts. He has a problem with catching the ball. His third drop in the mid lane on his first hit will make their shooting percentage drop for the first time in the third and 12 conversions. This is his ninth drop in the past six games. The sixth time in, made him excited.

"If I catch it, see what happens next," Chase said. "Just didn't look carefully."

With 5 minutes left in the first half, he seemed to give up his fourth touchdown since Baltimore. A 37-yard over-the-shoulder pass could have allowed them to tie the score 10-10. The ball was thrown in front of him and he reached out to catch the ball, but he couldn't completely retract the ball, and when he hit the ground, the ball seemed to spray out. He thinks it is not.

"If you ask me, my hand is under the ball," Chase said.

But no one questioned his football acumen. On Sunday he had a good breakdown of how the type of cloud cover for the 49ers’ Sunday game darkened his course.

"Safety shouldn't let anyone overtake him. That's why they play in the quarter," Chase said. "The corner usually bounces the catcher and tries to slow him down on the route. Loss of balance, falling, and so on. It slows the ball, slows the quarterback, and makes the quarterback. It seems the opposite. It’s all about timing. We just played against a team with a great D line, so we must be able to deal with it. You must be able to pass the ball faster, and when they put pressure on it , You don’t have much time."

This week you will see a lot of statistics about "light boxes" and they will confirm what even football fans saw on Sunday. The Bengals were inexplicably unable to free up three times the 1,000-yard runner (Mickson reached the milestone on Sunday) to counter the two zone defenses that Burrow said they dared to run.

They did it. Mixon could get 58 yards in 18 offenses, and each offense was only 3 yards. Burrow believes that every offense is a safety guarantee for the two highest except one.

"They played well; they did it," Burrow said. "They were able to keep their two high artillery shells and put a person in the penalty area to defend. In the second half, we started to figure it out a bit and were able to throw the ball throughout the second half. We failed to pull it out."

The 49ers were also able to apply enough heat to Burrow under the leadership of their elite sacker and Burrow Buckeye friend Nick Bosa. Bosa seems to be able to line up on the Titanic and bring pressure because he can be seen everywhere. On Sunday, he performed very hard on both tackles, including another Ohio State University old partner and substitute right tackle Isaiah Prince playing for the injured Riley Leif this season. He sacked and killed 14 people twice.

But before the flat-bottomed touchdown, Burrow threw 29 yards to the slot receiver Tyler Boyd, which was pure ice water. With the 49ers D-lineman Arden Key performing stunts on the edge, when Burrow hung on his helmet and screened it to Boyd on the left sideline, he almost pierced Burrow's helmet.

Leave it to another Buckeye partner to summarize.

"That's Joe," said Bengals left-back Sam Hubbard. "This is what he has always been like. We have full confidence in him. I like to have him as my quarterback in his team. He is still a young player and I am very happy to be able to play with him. The team has spent a long time and won many football matches. I am proud of the way he fights. He never blinks, he is just an incredible leader and teammate."

Back to Burrow's favorite Chase connection. On the fourth and fifth holes of the 17th hole, Burrow is escaping from his pocket, reversing the field and heading to the sideline.

But always head down the field.

"This is a scramble training. I ran to the left-when I was still running to the left, he threw the ball to the right," Chase said. I don't know why he did this, but later he said it was because the defender had to rotate his hips to get the ball. I thought,'This is kind of smart. "This is a good show of him."

Burrow: "That was his brilliant performance. I started to throw to the left, so as Jamal, he likes to catch touchdowns and does well in scrambler training. So I started to roll the ball to the left and then reversed. On the field, he did a good job of adapting to the ball in the air. This is one of my favorite touchdowns and we threw together. That was the time you almost immediately had to be on the same page, and it worked.

"When I threw the ball, he was still running to the left. He did a good job. We were just on the same page. I knew exactly what he was looking at, and he knew exactly what I was looking at. He ran to the left. , I threw it to the right, he put his foot on the ground, and then went to get it."

Chase confirmed that Burrow told him it was his favorite. But it was the next touchdown, equating it to 32 yards, which made Chase the Bengals rookie record, with ten touchdown catches. In 13 games he did what the great Isaac Curtis did in 14 games in 1973.

Even with the second screen, Chase defeated it because safety did not get past the top in his double move.

"We call the same game back-to-back, but we call it on the other side of the 50," Chase said. "They just bit it for the third time. Switch and make it work. Great call to offense. Had to use a route."

Burrow knows that there are 79 seconds left, which is the real departure time.

"They played a quarter of the game. They were blurring the boundaries throughout the game, so we started to take advantage of a few pitching opportunities," Burrow said. "Jamaal created a great route for cornerbacks. Bitten, so I voted over there."

Burrow had to ask the question why Taylor didn't let him continue the screening when he arrived in San Francisco 26 in overtime. However, if Burrow didn't hook on the 49ers' second cover, he wouldn't be on that either.

"No matter what the match call is called," Burrow said, "we will do our best to execute it. We played well there, we just couldn't open it."

However, if the Bengals can tie the four quarters together in the past four games, they seem to be able to do business.

"We are still there," Burrow said. "We have to find a way to win these games and stop beating ourselves, but we are there"

Just like the two punts that bounced off Darius Phillips from 10 of the 26 points they lost to the 49ers in overtime 26-23 at Paul Brown Stadium on Sunday, the Bengals knew they lost last week. Two huge opportunities to enter the first place in the North of the AFC. "It's frustrating," Bengals cornerback Mike Hilton said of the mood in the locker room.

Learn what head coach Zach Taylor, quarterback Joe Bro and the Bengals have said after their overtime game with the San Francisco 49ers.

Despite a violent rebound with 9:20 remaining in the game, the Bengals lost 23-20 in overtime. Overtime was 12-by Jimmy Gallopolo with 1 left in overtime. At minutes 53 seconds, with a heartbreaking score of 26-23, a touchdown pass was passed to wide receiver Brandon Eyuk. But the quarterback of the Bengals, Joe Burrow, was knocked down and woven in a passing sprint from the 49ers in one day, which caused him to be fired five times, and his passing score of 348 yards and 34 shots was 25 of 25. Is 125.6. 

The Bengals were on the inactive roster in Sunday’s game against the 49ers at Paul Brown Stadium, which is not surprising for a team whose linebacker was eliminated and provided 90 for the Cincinnati defensive challenge. Minute warning.

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