Right now, the Cincinnati Bengals look like a threat.
Given the playoff-clinching and elimination scenarios, the Bengals are an extreme longshot to make the playoffs. But if they make it? They feel like this year’s team that nobody wants to play.
Joe Burrow would agree, as captured by Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer:
So, late Sunday afternoon, after another one of those games where it looked like Burrow could do whatever he wanted, I asked the quarterback a question I figured I probably knew the answer to: Whether he thought the Bengals would be dangerous if they could somehow, after all that’s gotten them this year, find a way back into the playoffs for the first time since losing that conference championship game in Kansas City.
“I think everybody knows the answer to that,” he says.
Indeed. Burrow is playing at an MVP level, completing 68.9 percent of his passes with 4,229 yards and 39 touchdowns against eight interceptions.
Burrow’s Bengals have won three in a row while he keeps on playing at perhaps the highest level of his career to date. During this, the defense has enjoyed a mini-resurgence, in part due to easy opponents and in part due to the coaches changing things up.
Much has to go right for the Bengals to sneak into the playoffs. But if they make it, well, betting against Burrow might not be a good idea.
