Postgame Report: Joe Burrow Turns It On Late as Bengals Survive Titans in Overtime

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I think everyone expected the Bengals to kick the snot out of the Titans on Sunday. That didn't happen, but the Bengals did get a win. So how should we be feeling following that wild, wacky 43-36 OT victory right here at Paycore Stadium? Let's dive into that right now. I'm James Rapien. This is our post game report right here on Cincinnati Bengals Talk. And let's start here. And I want to start here because I was prepared. I was thinking about Joe Burrow's performance. After he missed Ja'Marr Chase in this end zone, what should have been a touchdown, should have blown the game open a bit and put the Bengals in control of this game. And he misses him and he leaves it short, late. There's no way in hell it should have happened. And when that happened, it was his third interception of the game. They followed that up with a fumble on an exchange between Joe Burrow and Chase Brown.

Four turnovers, those two happened in the second half. When that happened, I'm like, man, they are going to lose this game. Like I had reserved, they're going to lose the game.

I'm going to crush Joe Burrow in the post game because it's the worst we've seen him play. I think I have a tweet out there still. It's the worst we've seen him play so far.

And then he turned it on and the numbers weren't bad even after the three interceptions from a completion percentage standpoint, yards, touchdowns, all that, but he turned it on and he turned it on in a big, big way, leading the Bengals on not one, not two, but three straight touchdown drives to end this game to get the 43 to 36 victory. They're down 28-23 and everybody early in the season, what was the narrative? Man, the Bengals, Joe Burrow just isn't clutch. It's not clutch. You saw that dumb one in 34 stat that became one in 35 under eight minutes, all that stuff.

Well, he led the Bengals on not one, not two, but three straight touchdown drives. He ends up throwing for 462 yards, five touchdowns, runs for a score.

And that's it. That's the difference here is Joe turned it on. Tee Higgins was awesome today. Ja'Marr Chase was very productive. And Sexy Dexy is a bangle for a reason. That's it. That like my main take aways, these stars showed up. And I never doubted that Joe Burrow was clutch, whether or not he was clutch. Well, I would tell you, 38 of 48, nearly 80% completion percentage, 462 yards, five touchdown passes, had the three picks. I get it. But in the fourth quarter in overtime, what did he do?

In the fourth quarter in overtime, led them on three straight touchdown drives. This is, I think, what everybody needed to see from Joe that was wondering about the clutch stuff, but he was certainly clutch today. He was awesome today down the stretch. We posted everything Joe said post game, and in a lot of ways, and you guys that have watched regularly or listen regularly wherever you get your podcast, you know, ugly wins can be some of my favorite because you can build on them and it's much easier to clean things up when you get the win. You're like, all right, we won, but we got to fix all this stuff.