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1st stop: Higgins dropped a pass on 2nd and 10, followed by an overthrow to an open Chase on 3rd down 2nd stop: Benford made an elite play 3rd stop: Phillips got his hand up and the ball took a favorable bounce No adjustments that made a difference. Cincy had its way with us except when they made mistakes and/or individual players made great plays. I don't take anything positive away from the 2nd half defensive performance other than that Benford is fully back to his elite level of play and that gives us at least some kind of chance this year.

If KC loses tonight they will have 3 more losses than the Chargers. That is a crazy tight needle to thread to catch up to them. They'd have to win out and the Chargers could only win 2 more games, and even then it would come down to tiebreakers. In fact Denver could do to KC what KC did to Cincy last year. In week 18 Denver plays LA, they could rest all their starters with their seed already locked up and allow LA into the playoffs over KC. Knowing Sean Payton he would probably do exactly that if given the chance.

Don't worry about the Texans. We're a game ahead of them. If we win out we are practically guaranteed to be the 5 seed (only exception is if LA wins out which is absolutely not happening given their brutal closing schedule). We just have to take care of our own business.

The tell is that after the hit to the head he was bobbling almost every catch.

According to ESPN's win probability chart we went from 65.9% to 42.2% on that play.

I looked down for one second right before the snap and when I looked back up he was already halfway to the endzone. My jaw hit the floor.

We do. Next tiebreaker is conference record. One of our losses came to an NFC team, all of theirs will have been to AFC teams.

Benford was shown on the broadcast 3 times today: Covering Higgins for like 10 seconds Sack Pick six He's more than back. He's playing the best ball of his career these past few weeks.

Our WR corps is so bad I'm fantasizing what Allen would look like with Andrei Iosivas.

Allen Mahomes Jackson Burrow One of those QBs is going to will his team into the playoffs this year. The rest are likely to miss it. Tells you all you need to know.

Yeah I would. He has the talent. You just have to hope he shakes the injury bug. I think it's worth the risk for less than $10M.

This is how some people see the game:

Usually he would be. This week though Allen and Benford were so otherworldly good they deserve all the recognition.

Easy one this week: Allen Benford

Yes McDermott absolutely earned this win all on his own. A great coaching job!

Best player in the game bails the coaches out

Our coaches desperately want us to lose this game

I would have surprised them with a pass on 1st down. You probably still get it to the 2 minute warning. But whatever. Offense needs to close this out. The defensive coaching has been shockingly bad, don't leave it in their hands.

No I was agreeing with you. If we kick the FG there we definitely lose. Going for the TD was the right choice

I mean how do you let that happen? This is the one drive where you can give up quick underneath throws

Yeah that was an easy choice. Kick the FG and you guarantee Cincy wins on a TD and a 2 point conversion with no time remaining.

Hawes might have the best hands on the team

Sigh. Once again a skill player lets down a legendary Allen performance. Why are we cursed