The Cincinnati Bengals and Atlanta Falcons are opposites in terms of team success, evident by their current records. But when they faced off against one another on Sunday, they looked like mirror images of each other.
Both offenses had the ball for nearly identical times and ran almost the same amount of plays. Cincinnati had possession for 30:38 compared to 29:22 for Atlanta, and Cincinnati’s offense took 73 snaps to Atlanta’s 70. They each netted similar total first downs (30 for Cincinnati, 25 for Atlanta) and both ran almost the same percentage of successful plays (53.