Zac Taylor folded his arms and looked up at the clock in disbelief with 41 second left in the third quarter. The Cincinnati Bengals’ coach who had reached the AFC Championship twice in the last four years was facing misery.
Grief is what arrived after the Eagles stopped the Bengals on a big fourth-and-one tackle by rookie safety Cooper DeJean on Cincinnati’s dangerous Ja’Marr Chase.
The Eagles answered by turning a close game into a 37-17 route winning for the first time in Cincinnati, taking care of Joe Burrow and the Bengals on Sunday at Paycor Stadium for their third-straight win.