Bengals and elite team in recent history have a rare commonality
Two of the 13 AFC Offensive Player of the Week awards this year have gone to Cincinnati Bengals quarterbacks. Joe Burrow owns one from Week 8, and Jake Browning claimed one for his own this past week. Two quarterbacks on the same team in a single season! If you think that's rare, you'd be correct.According to […]
Two of the 13 AFC Offensive Player of the Week awards this year have gone to Cincinnati Bengals quarterbacks. Joe Burrow owns one from Week 8, and Jake Browning claimed one for his own this past week.
Two quarterbacks on the same team in a single season! If you think that's rare, you'd be correct.
According to resident Bengals stats expert Jay Morrison of Pro Football Network, the Bengals are the first team to accomplish this feat since the 2011 Green Bay Packers.
It's one thing for the backup quarterback to keep the offense afloat. It's another thing entirely for him to outperform all of his peers in a week's worth of action. Browning did just that during Monday night's overtime victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Browning's 354 yards on 32-37 passing under the primetime lights was a spectacle to behold. There haven't been many performances like that since Matt Flynn's six touchdown outing for the Packers at the end of the 2011 season. Flynn was playing for Aaron Rodgers since the Packers already had the No. 1 seed in the NFC locked in at that time. Green Bay finished the regular season 15-1, but lost to the New York Giants in their opening playoff game. The Giants, of course, went on to win the Super Bowl that year.
If the Bengals even make it as far as the Divisional Round, it would be a massive success. Browning will have to continue playing well in order for Cincinnati to even clinch a playoff spot. With so many other teams fighting for their lives with a backup under center, the Bengals may end up being the outlier, attracting envy from every other team in their situation.
Browning has a long way to go before then, but he's off to a great start.
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