We already know that the best play any offense can run is the touchdown pass to an offensive lineman. Trying to cover a guy at least 6-foot-3 and at least 300 pounds… well, why doesn’t every offense just build the plane out of THAT?
The Bengals don’t have a THICC SIX touchdown this season, but they may well have saved their season with one big guy doing one spectacular thing. With 2:23 left in the third quarter of the AFC Championship game, Patrick Mahomes tried a short pass off an RPO, but it was defensive tackle B.J. Hill — all 6-foot-3, 303 pounds of him — who tipped the pass and picked it off, returning the interception three yards to the Kansas City 30-yard line.
Big man ballin!
— Darius Butler (@DariusJButler) January 30, 2022
Five plays later, Joe Burrow hit Ja’Marr Chase for a two-yard touchdown…
BURROW TO CHASE. TOUCHDOWN. #RuleTheJungle #NFLPlayoffs
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…and the subsequent two-point conversion from Burrow to receiver Trent Taylor to tie the game at 21.
The @Bengals were down 21-3.
It's now 21-21.#NFLPlayoffs
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If the Bengals win, the 18-point comeback would tie the 2006 Colts for the biggest reversal in a conference championship game — Indianapolis was down 21-3 to the Patriots in the first half, and wound up winning the game, 38-34.
And it wouldn’t have happened without that Big Man Interception from B.J. Hill.
