Setting the scene: The Bengals this week take on the visiting Tennessee Titans on Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium. Cincinnati will look to bounce back from a narrow loss to the division-rival Cleveland Browns last Sunday.
"You could tell it was an emotional locker room after the game," said Bengals head coach Zac Taylor. "But for the right reasons. In that moment, it's tough to find the words to say to the team, because you totally felt like you were going to win, and you didn't."
Taylor's Bengals watched their late lead slip away, as Browns QB Baker Mayfield orchestrated a five-play, 75-yard drive in the waning moments, and capped it with a 24-yard, go-ahead TD pass with just 11 seconds remaining.
Cleveland's last-minute score dampened what was a stellar offensive day by Cincinnati. QB Joe Burrow passed for 406 yards, the sixth-most ever by an NFL rookie, while tossing three TDs and rushing for another. His day was highlighted by a 10-play, 85-yard drive late in the fourth quarter, which ended with a goahead TD pass on fourth down to HB Giovani Bernard.
Bernard's score, though, came with 1:06 remaining, which proved to be too much time for Mayfield and the Browns.
Despite the loss, Burrow received plenty of praise for his impressive performance. The rookie completed 74.4 percent of his passes, notched the 11th 400-yard passing game in team history (and the first by a rookie), and produced the first-ever game in which six Bengals recorded at least 50 receiving yards. Burrow has now topped 300 passing yards in five of his first seven games.
That's a feat only 14 other QBs in league history have pulled off at any point of their career, and he stands as the only rookie ever to do it. The Bengals' signal caller is on pace to shatter numerous NFL rookie passing records, including most 300-yard passing games in a season, which he currently stands just one shy of tying (six by Colts QB Andrew Luck in 2012).
Taylor and the Bengals this week face a formidable challenge in the form of the Tennessee Titans, who are led by a familiar face in QB Ryan Tannehill. Taylor was Tannehill's position coach early in the QB's career with the Miami Dolphins. The Titans also feature one of the NFL's most powerful rushing attacks, headlined by RB Derrick Henry.
Tennessee is 5-1 after losing 27-24 to Pittsburgh last week.
The series: The Bengals and Titans (formerly Oilers) have met 75 times, making the Titans the third-most played foe in Bengals history. Cincinnati has played more games against only Pittsburgh (101) and Cleveland (95). The Bengals and Titans/Oilers were rivals in the old AFC Central Division, playing twice per year in the regular season from 1970-2001.
The Titans lead 40-34-1 in the series. The Bengals lead 21-17 as the home team, but the Titans lead 6-3 in visits to Cincinnati since their relocation to Tennessee in 1997. The series includes one postseason game, a 41-14 Bengals win over Houston in a 1990 season Wild Card game at Riverfront Stadium.
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