When it rains, it pours for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Joe Burrow’s nice season hasn’t been sufficient to maintain his staff afloat, and the league doesn’t appear to love their possibilities of turning issues round.
With that in thoughts, they’ve formally flexed them out of Thursday Evening Soccer.
The Bengals had been presupposed to sq. off vs. the Cleveland Browns on Thursday in Week 16.
However the league made a enterprise determination with the Browns sitting on a 3-8 document and the Bengals not significantly better at 4-7.
As an alternative, they’ll showcase the divisional conflict between the Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Chargers.
When requested about that, coach Sean Payton had a comical but sincere response (through Zac Stevens):
“We’d quite be flexed in than flexed out,” he admitted.
Sean Payton defined why the Broncos being flexed to Week 16’s sport towards the Chargers to Thursday Evening Soccer. pic.twitter.com/WPyN2zCP36
Not many individuals anticipated the Broncos to be pretty much as good or aggressive as they’ve been this season.
They’re at present 6-5, and so they’ve stored it shut even within the losses.
Their protection continues to be the most effective within the sport, and Bo Nix appears tailored to run Payton’s offense.
The Chargers are additionally within the race for a playoff spot, and with each groups more likely to hold going sturdy within the subsequent month, likelihood is that sport may need some main implications for the postseason race.
We may even see a “win and get in” state of affairs for this primetime, hard-nosed, bodily divisional matchup.
The Broncos are lastly trying just like the staff the followers hoped they’d be with Coach Payton on the helm, and so they appear to have a shiny future forward of them.
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