The Cincinnati Bengals are headed back to the AFC Championship Game.
Joe Burrow and the Bengals dominated Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills wire-to-wire en route to a 27-10 victory in snowy Buffalo, New York. With the win, Burrow and co. will head to the AFC title game for the second consecutive season, where they’ll face a less than 100% Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs on the road, much-like they did last season.
Post-Game Comments
Bengals QB Joe Burrow told CBS’ Tracy Wolfson that ticket sites should be refunding Bills and Chiefs fans their pre-sold AFC Championship Game tickets. Tickets to a potential showdown between the Bills and Chiefs were sold in advance due to the game being scheduled to take place in Atlanta, Georgia following the NFL’s updated tie-breaker rules following the Damar Hamlin situation that occurred during the Bengals and Bills week 17 game.
Joe Burrow's thoughts on tickets being sold for a Bills/Chiefs neutral site AFC Championship?
"Better send those refunds." 😂 pic.twitter.com/6UqPrVAuy4
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) January 22, 2023
The club’s official Twitter account doubled down on their franchise QB’s post-game comments.
Make sure y’all get that refund 👀
— Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) January 22, 2023
Burrow would then delve into the game itself and noted that the game went just as they had hoped, dominance from start to finish.
“Domination from start to finish – that’s what we expected.”
Joe Burrow joins @TracyWolfson after the @Bengals’ dominant win over Buffalo. pic.twitter.com/DALPkMC7ts
— NFL on CBS 🏈 (@NFLonCBS) January 22, 2023
Game Breakdown
Although the Bills were six point favorites by most oddsmakers, it was actually the Bengals that led from the get-go and never looked back. A six play, 79-yard drive was capped off by a 28-yard TD toss from Burrow to his former LSU teammate Ja’Marr Chase to put Cincy in front 7-0 early. The Bengals defense would force Josh Allen and co. to a quick three-and-out, which allowed Burrow and the offense to go right back to work and after a 10 play, 72-yard drive, Burrow hooked up with Tight End Hayden Hurts on a beautiful double move for a 15-yard score to put the Bengals up 14-0 halfway through the first quarter. The Burrow to Hurst touchdown would end up being all Zac Taylor’s squad needed as the Bengals defense would hold the Bills’ all world offense to just 10-points.
Cincinnati Bengals Game Leaders
Passing
- Joe Burrow: 22-36, 242 YDS, 2 TD, 0 INT
Rushing
- Joe Mixon: 20 CAR, 102 YDS, 1 TD
- Samaje Perine: 7 CAR, 33 YDS
- Joe Burrow: 6 CAR, 31 YDS
- Ja’Marr Chase: 1 CAR, 3 YDS
Receiving
- Ja’Marr Chase: 5 REC, 61 YDS, 1 TD
- Hayden Hurst: 5 REC, 59 YDS, 1 TD
- Samaje Perine: 5 REC, 31 YDS
- Tee Higgins: 3 REC, 28 YDS
- Tyler Boyd: 1 REC, 23 YDS
- Joe Mixon: 2 REC, 18 YDS
- Trenton Irwin: 1 REC, 13 YDS
- Mitchell Wilcox: 1 REC, 9 YDS
Buffalo Bills Game Leaders
Passing
- Josh Allen: 25-41, 264 YDS, 0 TD, 1 INT
Rushing
- Josh Allen: 8 CAR, 26 YDS, 1 TD
- Devin Singletary: 6 CAR, 25 YDS
- James Cook: 5 CAR, 13 YDS
Receiving
- Dawson Knox: 5 REC, 65 YDS
- Khalil Shakir: 2 REC, 40 YDS
- Devin Singletary: 5 REC, 37 YDS
- Stefon Diggs: 4 REC, 35 YDS
- Gabe Davis: 2 REC, 34 YDS
- Cole Beasley: 3 REC, 33 YDS
- Isaiah McKenzie: 2 REC, 10 YDS
- Quintin Morris: 1 REC, 6 YDS
- Nyheim Hines: 1 REC, 4 YDS
Team Stats
- Cincinnati: 30 1st Downs, 412 YDS, 240 Passing YDS, 172 Rushing YDS, 0 TOs, 33:54 TOP
- Buffalo: 18 1st Downs, 325 YDS, 262 Passing YDS, 63 Rushing YDS, 1 TO, 26:06 TOP
The Cincinnati Bengals will travel to Missouri to face the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game, next Sunday, January 29, at 6:30 p.m. EDT/3:30 p.m. PDT.
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