Finally, someone is willing to tell it like it is. No excuses, no b.s., nothing but the truth.
“We’re not a championship-level team right now,” Cincinnati Bengals’ quarterback Joe Burrow said after Sunday’s 41-38 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. “We’re not...I like to think that we’ll come back and improve throughout the season to get to that point, but right now, we are not, and we have to get better.”
Improvement is not a word that can be applied to the Bengals’ defense. Cincinnati’s run defense looked stout throughout most of the game, with the exception of Derrick Henry’s 51-yard scamper in overtime that led to the Ravens’ winning field goal.