Another game decided at the end with an Andy Dalton flourish, this one with 20 points in the last 23:40 of a 27-24 overtime victory over Seattle. Another bonding moment for Bengals offensive coordinator Hue Jackson with his quarterback now emerging as an MVP candidate.
It will be recalled that in the last moments of the 28-24 victory in Baltimore two weeks ago in which the Bengals erased two deficits in the final seven minutes or so, Dalton and Jackson were firing off wisecracks.
On Sunday against Seattle when the Bengals fell behind, 24-7, in the middle of the third quarter on running back Rex Burkhead’s fumble that turned into Bobby Wagner’s 23-yard fumble return TD, Dalton took a new tact.