By: EFE
The Cincinnati Bengals broke this Saturday a streak of 31 years without a victory in a postseason game when winning by 26-15 to the Las Vegas Raiders to advance to the next round in the NFL playoff starter.
Cincinnati’s most recent win in this instance before this Saturday it was in 1991, when they outscored the Houston Oilers with two touchdown passes from their quarterback that year Bommer Esiason.
This was a matchup between a pair of rookie postseason quarterbacks; Derek Carr, of 30 years for the Raiders; Joe Barrow, 25 years old, with the Bengals, winner in 2019 of the Heisman Trophy given to the best college football player in the USA.
Barrow finished the game with 244 passing yards and two touchdowns; Carr passed for 675 yards and a TD. The Raiders took the lead with a field goal on their opening drive in the first quarter.
Cincinnati responded with an attack in which Barrow took them on a tour 75 yards in 12 plays that culminated in his tight end Christopher Uzomah going into the end zone to give them a 7-3 lead.
The Bengals’ defense returned to the field of game to Barrow when Trey Hendrickson hit Derek Carr and caused a fumble that Larry Ogunjobi recovered inside the yard 13 from Las Vegas; the local offense capitalized on it with three points, 10-3.
In the second quarter coach Zac Taylor’s squad expanded to 13-3 the distance with another field goal that Las Vegas countered to get closer 13-6.
Two minutes before the break the Bengals’ number nine jersey wearer got his second touchdown pass of the game by connecting with Tylor Boyd for distance 20-6.
The Raiders closed the first half with a delivery from Carr to Zay Jones that sent the game to rest 20-13. At the start of the third quarter Cincinnati added three more points, 23 -; and in the last period the marker was placed 21-19 after a Bengals field goal and a pair of Las Vegas.
The Raiders tried to tie in their last offensive with just under two minutes on the clock, already without timeouts. Carr took his team to the Cincinnati nine-yard line, but couldn’t get to the end zone.
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