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Heartbeat Finals! Bengals win first playoff

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The Cincinnati Bengals have won their first playoff game for 31 years — or 11,332 days — the Bengals struck at the prelude to the wildcard round in a crafty game the Las Vegas Raiders with 26:19. For Quarterback Joe Burrow, it was therefore also the first start of the first playoff victory, for the Raiders ends a roller coaster of a season in the first playoff round.

For the Bengals, the game could not have started much better. The first own drive was an impressive demonstration of Burrow Chase Connection, the first four passes from Burrow went to his top receiver, at Third-And-Goal he fired the ball into a tight window to C.J. Woman.

The nearest Raiders Drive ended with a strip bag by Trey Hendrickson, the drive of the guests a little later with a sack just before their own endz1. Cincinnati checked the game seemingly, the big plays were there — but the households were only tedious.

The Raiders defense and especially the Outside Corner allowed a lot too, but in the Red Zone the pressure on Burrow (24/34, 244 yes, 2 TD) became larger, and the Bengals kicked two Field Goals within the opposing 15-yard -Line. So it remained a close game because the Raiders after two explosive runs of Josh Jacobs replied by Field Goal.

The last Bengals-Drive seemed to worry about the preliminary decision: Burrow had a fantastic litter over the middle to Woman against the 2-high-coverage of the Raiders, ZAC Taylor played out Fourth Down successfully with a pitch to Chase — and Burrow threw a spectacular touchdown late in rollout to the outside.

The problem with the play was, as late the litter came: Burrow left the ball short before he stepped on the side line — whereupon one of the refs whistled, probably in the faith that Burrow was outside. According to the rules, the down had to be repeated, but the touchdown counted.

Bengals have to shake up to the end

But the Raiders remained in it. Carr (29/54, 310 YES, TD, INT) replied in the last two minutes of the first half with a critical touchdown drive — and so the game remained tight. After a certainly not faultless, but quite entertaining first half, the viewers in Cincinnati saw a terribly crushed third quarter, decisive by holding calls against the Raiders and much TV time for the impartial.

The Bengals could not absorb the Bengals. On a Field Goal-Drive for starting in the second half followed a fast punt as a result of a third-down sack by Max Crosby, Las Vegas shortened to seven points.

It took until the fourth neighborhood before it felt a little after preliminary decision. Similar to the beginning of the game, the Burrow Chase Connection now went hot and thus marched Cincinnati, especially the Bengals took a lot of time from the clock now. Although the Raiders defense held again in the Red Zone, just under seven minutes before the end, Las Vegas now ran a 10-point residue behind a 10-point residue.

Bengals

But it remained the story of the game that Cincinnati did not get the lid on the game. The Raiders marched the field down and decided for the Field Goal — but because Cincinnati could not move the ball at all, Carr just two minutes before the end got the chance to send the game in Overtime!

And the Raiders were also fast in scoring range with some big plays, but robbed of a play when Carr was chosen the spike for 30 seconds before the end Cincinnati's 9-yard-line. So he had only three chances to get the ball into the end zone — and at Fourth Down, Linebacker Jermaine Pratt jumped to Day Jones and started the pass.

Cincinnati Bengals vs. Las Vegas Raiders

Result: 26:19 (10: 3, 10:10, 3: 0, 3: 6) Box score

Bengals vs. Raiders — the most important statistics

  • The last playoff victory of the Cincinnati Bengals dated to date from 6 January 1991, a 41:14 against the Houston Oilers in the wildcard round. At that time a week later was in the Divisional Round End station — against the Los Angeles Raiders. Seven times, the Bengals have since played in the Postseason, all seven games between January 2006 and January 2016. At each of these seven trials came directly in the first game in the wildcard round.
  • At Burrow's irregular touchdown pass before the half-time break, it was 0.1 yards away from the side line when he threw the ball. With so little distance to the sideline, no quarterback had been thrown in the next Gen stats -Ara.
  • The Raiders had three false start penalties alone, throughout the season no team had more false starts in a single quarter. There were several more in the second half.
  • Las Vegas finished the game with more Total Yards (385: 308), more yards per play (5.4: 5.0) and more First Downs (23:18). As in the first matchup between these two teams this season, Las Vegas could move the ball, sometimes better than Cincinnati. But the Bengals had more big plays in the pass games and had to go much less about Third Down than Las Vegas.

The Star of the game: JA'Mary Chase (WR, Bengals)

It was a very tough game in the second half, but the team that showed annoying here, and his limitations was not the young Bengals team. And it was obvious to whom Cincinnati's Game plan was aligned: Chase (9 REC, 116 yes; 3 ATT, 23 YES) was the clear fixed point of this offense; Burrow and Chase were the engine of this Bengal victory. Also, extremely striking: Bengals-Safety Jessie Bates, who made several plays in Coverage.

The flop of the game: The offensive line of the Raiders

We knew that the Raiders line would be a vulnerability — the extent was still bitter and limited this offense scary. Not only that the Protection wobbled — the much, much to numerous holding punishments came then, and that for an offense that has little scope for mistakes anyway.

The focus is also to lie here in the analyses on the players; But the Refs could have been able to stand here as well. The scene at the Bengal Touchdown shortly before the half-time break, long voting sequences, several small mistakes that simply summed up. The fact that the NFL merges all-star crews here, which does not work on a wavelength, significantly disturbed the play flow of this game and that can not be in the interest of the league.

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Analysis: Bengals vs. Raiders — the tactical panel

  • The first — intimiduously scripted — Drive of the Bengals did hope that Cincinnati could expire offensive. Burrow always found matchups with Chase in particular against Brandon Jackson, Nixon got some runs against light boxes and Cincinnati brought his outside receivers with comeback and shorter outs into the game after Cincinnati had revealed some problems here in the first duel with the Raiders.
  • But after the touchdown pass at Third-And-Goal, it was not so successfully continued: Nixon continued some light boxes and Cincinnati moved the ball well — but only to the Red Z1. Here, the Bengals had some problems, in Protection, but also what the passport windows for Burrow. Here you could definitely also criticize some play calls. Generally, Cincinnati's Play Calling was offensively very up-and-down, not least there were too many first-down runs in the course of the game.
  • What the Bengals turned well in return was neutralizing the pass-rush. Quick Game, Double Teams against Crosby, including: Cincinnati's Game Plan had obviously built neutralizing the pass-rushs as a supporting column in the Game Plan for this game.
  • At the Raiders' offense on the other side, it was actually underlined from the first driveway, how little scope for mistakes this open excellent has currently. Explosive elements are rare, the outside receiver group must hope for a pair of Day Jones plays. And so the Raiders had to go very often about Third Down and whenever the off-to-down-and-distance fell back, they had clear problems. Not only in terms of exclusivity, but also the O-line problems were then clearly uncovered. The lack of alternatives was also clear at the drive late in the fourth neighborhood, Las Vegas could only laboriously go down the field.
  • The Defense of the Raiders quite tried to pass on their coverage structures and not to sit rigidly in their single high-caves. But it was indispensable how much these defense is basically dependent on the 4-man rush. Las Vegas sat too often in soft zones behind it or was dominated by one-counter-one against Chase. The stronger was the occurrence in the red zone.
  • You must then criticize Cincinnati but also that Bengals did not get the lid on this game. This concerns the already mentioned behavior in the red zone, but also the way Taylor managed the drive late in the game, when Cincinnati could have ended the game with his own openness.
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