With 8:44 to go in the game against the Buffalo Bills, Joe Burrow evaded a free rusher and found Mike Gesicki in the endzone to take a 28-18 lead. Even with how atrocious the defense had been all year, it felt like the team was beginning to turn a corner. The Bengals shut down the Baltimore Ravens last week and was well on their way to beating the Bills in the snow.

Then, Al Golden's defense must have thought Josh Allen was Year 17 Peyton Manning and forgot that he's the best running quarterback in the NFL. Allen stepped up, evaded the blitz, saw there was nobody in the same zip code as him in the open field, and took off for a 40-yard touchdown.

When the Bengals got the ball back, it looked like they were driving to put the game away. Burrow checked out of a run to try and hit what woul

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