After two dominating victories, the Cincinnati Bengals had a crash back to reality this week. They dropped an important one to the Chargers, and they need to win more of their remaining games than they lose to get into the playoffs.
Here are the best and worst facets to the Bengals’ 41-22 loss to Los Angeles in Week 13.
The good
Gutting through injuries:
In such a critical matchup with playoff implications, Cincinnati entered the game short-handed with Trey Hopkins, Riley Reiff, Darius Phillips and Chris Evans all being shelved with injuries.