The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs took a 13-6 lead into the locker room at halftime of the AFC Championship staff. For the visiting Bengals, the protection has completed a superb job of stopping the Chiefs offense from getting ultimately zone, forcing two early area targets.
With Cincinnati’s offense struggling, together with simply 19 yards dashing and a Joe Burrow interception, the defending AFC Champions may want much more out of the protection within the second half. Nevertheless, if the offensive line doesn’t get it collectively for the Bengals it could not matter a lot.
Within the Divisional Spherical, the priority was that accidents on the offensive line that saved Alex Kappa and Jonah Williams from enjoying and restricted Ted Karras would permit the Buffalo Payments line of defense to dominate the sport. As a substitute, Joe Burrow was sacked simply as soon as and hit simply 3 times in a Cincinnati victory.
Going into halftime of the AFC Championship Sport, the Bengals offensive line, nonetheless with out Kappa and Williams, has reverted to the poor play many had been involved the accidents would result in final week. Burrow has been sacked 4 instances and hit seven instances in only one half of play.
Frank Clark and Chris Jones have mixed for two.5 sacks, 4 quarterback hits and three tackles for loss. Rookie George Karlaftis has a sack, QB hit and a deal with for loss.
With the restrictions on the road, Burrow has been eliminating the ball rapidly, 2.41 seconds from snap to throw to this point. The road has not opened up working lanes both, with Joe Mixon and Samaje Perine averaging simply 2.38 per keep on their eight makes an attempt.
Because the second half kicks off, Cincinnati’s Zac Taylor might want to work out find out how to shield his quarterback whereas nonetheless making an attempt to run the ball as effectively, whereas Kansas Metropolis’s defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo will proceed to attempt to deliver the warmth.
Sadly for the Bengals, the problems with the offensive line confirmed up as an issue late within the sport. With 44 seconds left, Jones lined up over proper deal with on third and eight for Cincinnati. Jones dominated the Bengals blockers and sacked Burrow for an eight-yard loss.
The sack led to a punt and the Chiefs’ game-winning drive.
On the finish of the sport, Cincinnati’s line gave up 5 sacks, 12 quarterback hits and 6 tackles for loss.