The Cincinnati Bengals couldn't have looked much worse on defense in Sunday's 47-42 loss to the Chicago Bears, and multiple defensive players reportedly gave the media the cold shoulder afterwards.
The Bengals blew a 14-point lead in the final minutes of the fourth quarter in their Week 8 loss to the Jets and it looked for a moment on Sunday like they might pull off a comeback of their own against the Bears this week.
Not that there are many words to describe the depth of the Cincinnati Bengals defense's failure this season, but after a 47-42 loss to the Chicago Bears on Sunday, multiple culprits refused to face the music.
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Week 9 proved to be a Halloween-appropriate waking nightmare for the Cincinnati Bengals in a 47-42 loss to the Chicago Bears. Even worse, superstar Ja'Marr Chase seems to be at his wit's end.
Joe Flacco's historic passing performance on Sunday got outdone by even more historic defensive ineptitude on the other side of the ball, 47-42 against Chicago, but he preached patience with Cincinnati sitting at 3-6 this season.
With 5:03 left in the fourth quarter of Sunday's game between the Chicago Bears and the Cincinnati Bengals, Chicago receiver D.J. Moore scored a 16-yard touchdown on an end-around.
Bengals head coach Zac Taylor has no answers for his historically awful defense after a 47-42 loss to the Bears, entering a bye week. Cincinnati now has the league's worst defense by EPA/play this century.
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CINCINNATI -- Caleb Williams found Colston Loveland with 17 seconds left for a 58-yard touchdown Sunday to vault the Chicago Bears to a wild 47-42 win over the Cincinnati Bengals.
The Cincinnati Bengals put on yet another maddening performance in Week 9's 47-42 home loss to the Chicago Bears. Once again, the Cincinnati defense was awful and let up another 250+ yards on the ground (283 to be precise) for the second straight game.
The Bengals rallied, but came up short in Sunday's 47-42 loss to the Bears at Paycor Stadium. Cincinnati falls to 3-6 on the season. Cincinnati has lost back-to-back games and the hope that was injected into this team when they traded for Joe Flacco last month has gone by the wayside.
The Bengals are going back and forth with the Chicago Bears at Paycor Stadium home. Joe Flacco is playing another solid, mistake-free game. He drew up a deep dime to Mitchell Tinsley on the Bengals' first drive of the second half to spark another touchdown for Tee Higgins on his bounce-back day.
Former Cincinnati Bengals tight end and longtime television and radio broadcaster Bob Trumpy has died. He was 80. The Bengals announced Sunday that Trumpy "passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by his family." The team did not provide a cause of death, however.
The Cincinnati Bengals announced the passing of longtime announcer and Pro Bowl tight end Bob Trumpy on Sunday morning. Trumpy, who turned 80 earlier this year, spent his entire 10-year playing career with the Bengals.
Paul Dehner Jr. of The Athletic recently reported the Bengals would keep DE Trey Hendrickson through Tuesday’s trade deadline, even if they drop their Week 9 matchup with the Bears to fall to 3-6.
The Bengals have experienced terrible injury luck with the quarterback position this year. Joe Flacco’s status for Sunday is uncertain because of a shoulder injury.
According to Adam Schefter, three teams have expressed some trade interest to the Bengals in LB Logan Wilson following his request to be dealt. Schefter lists the Bills, Cowboys and Colts as Wilson’s suitors.
It doesn’t matter who’s throwing him the football -- Ja'Marr Chase is a problem. Whether it’s Joe Flacco or Jake Browning under center for Cincinnati in Week 9, the Bengals’ best shot to knock off the Bears rests in the hands of one of the most dominant wide receivers in football.
The 2025 Cincinnati Bengals are a mess, and after eight games, we still don’t really know who they are. When Joe Burrow went down, the season seemed doomed, and the Jake Browning experience was a nightmare this time around.