Watch Super Bowl LVI from SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles live on Sky Sports NFL on Sunday; AFC’s Cincinnati Bengals will play NFC’s Los Angeles Rams (starting at 11:30 p.m.) live from 10:00 p.m.
Cincinnati Bengals in the Super Bowl! Just let it get inside.
In fact, the Bengals didn’t win a playoff game in 31 years until, under the guidance of their second-year superstar quarterback Joe Burrow, they beat the Las Vegas Raiders in a Wild Card and then defeated the AFC No. Tennessee Titans with 1st pick in the divisional round before depriving the Kansas City Chiefs of their third straight Super Bowl in the championship game.
We look back on the Rams’ path to Super Bowl LVI…
At the start of the 2021 season, it was clear that this Bengal team had improved a lot, however, their reputation in the Super Bowl showed up a bit later.
Midway through the season, the Cincinnati had just a 5-4 record going into their bye week after a shocking 34-31 loss to the one-win New York Jets and a 41-16 home loss against divisional rivals Cleveland. Browns.
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Ja’Marr Chase, a rookie wide receiver with the fifth overall pick in the 2022 draft, was a revelation despite offseason mutterings about his throwing habit. Any such concerns quickly evaporated when he began his NFL career with a 100-yard outing (and 50-yard touchdown) in Cincinnati overtime, defeating the Minnesota Vikings in the season opener.
Chase went over 150 yards in overtime in a Week 5 loss to the Green Bay Packers before going over 200 yards and throwing a stunning 82-yard touchdown in a 41-17 road game against the Baltimore Ravens in Week 7.
After a bit of a mid-season slump matching the team, Chase had another day for 100 yards when the Bengals beat the Ravens for a Week 16 win, and a week later he followed it up with an amazing 266 yards. and three- TD’s entry as the Bengals really made itself known to the world with a 34-31 regular season win over the Chiefs.
Another highlight in a season full of them was Cincinnati’s victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, their first win since the 2009 season. Since then, Pittsburgh has won 19 of the last 23 meetings (including the playoffs) between the two teams entering the season, but a 41-10 rout in Week 12 did signal a shift in power at the AFC North.
