Due to the Denver Broncos’ 38-0 win over the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs on Sunday, they formally punched their ticket to the postseason and set the AFC playoff area.
That win additionally formally eradicated the Cincinnati Bengals from playoff competition, placing an finish to their second half surge that noticed them make a push for one of many AFC wild-card spots.
Over the approaching days and weeks you’ll hear some sympathy for them lacking out primarily based on how dynamic their offense is, how good quarterback Joe Burrow is, how thrilling a possible matchup with Buffalo Payments quarterback Josh Allen would have been, and the way they ended up getting eradicated as a consequence of a Chiefs workforce that sat all of its starters and laid an egg in a meaningless sport.
They’d develop into “the workforce no person needs to see get in.”
Head coach Zac Taylor added to that narrative himself after Saturday’s 19-17 win in Pittsburgh, saying “they do not need us within the event. I promise you that.”
The Bengals deserve none of that sympathy. They deserve not one of the tears that will likely be shed for them.
They don’t seem to be worthy of the worry individuals assume they might have inflicted on the top-tier AFC contenders. They didn’t need to be within the AFC playoff area and so they have completely no person guilty however themselves for falling quick.
Earlier than Sunday’s kickoff CBS analyst J.J. Watt went over the Bengals’ star energy and mentioned a workforce like them ought to by no means miss the playoffs, and the way a lot remorse they need to have over their gradual begin.
