Cincinnati Bengals Playoff Hopes ALIVE: Path to Postseason & Joe Burrow’s Impact

Cincinnati Bengals Playoff Hopes ALIVE: Path to Postseason & Joe Burrow’s Impact

The Bengals beat the Ravens on Thursday night and they got some help today. The latest on the Bengals playoff chances. Yes, there’s a chance and there could be more than a chance if they keep on winning. Let’s break it all down right now on Cincinnati Bengals Talk. Hi again everyone and welcome in to CBT. I’m James of Bengal.com. Hit that subscribe button. Ring the bell. Join the 62,000 plus Bengals fans that have already hit that subscribe button. Also, check us out on the iHeart Radio app, on Apple, on Spotify, wherever you get your podcast, Amazon podcast as well. And I’m looking here and I’m like, boy oh boy, it’s about to be December 1st and the Bengals playoff chances, well, they’re still there. They still exist. And the Bengals, they helped themselves on Thursday night when Joe Burrow returned. They beat the Ravens 32 to4. So they gain a game on the Ravens. And our our friends in Cincinnati, the Buffalo Bills, and and I do know a lot of people in Cincinnati that root for the Buffalo Bills uh when they’re not rooting for the Bengals. Uh well, they helped out the Bengals on Sunday with a huge victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. It ended up being 26-7. So shocker. I’m going to have to update my article that I posted on banglesalk.com because I put 23-7 and I will do that as uh I talk to you right now. There we go. 26-7. Look, what does this do? Well, it means the Steelers are also 6-6. It means the Steelers have lost three out of four games. That lone win being over the Bengals. But the Steelers are 6-6. The Ravens are six- teams play next week. The Bengals 4-8. Two games back behind those two teams. They go to Buffalo. they pay play the Bills next Sunday and that’s it. That’s what you’re talking about. Now, if you’re the Bengals, you obviously have to control what you can control and focus on that and that’s it, right? And and I totally get it. You’re going to hear from Joe Burrow in a second on that. But I look at it and I’m like, “Okay, well, yeah, you’re gonna have to beat Buffalo.” But Baltimore, if they handle business against the Steelers, well, that’s a loss for Pittsburgh that they can’t really afford to have right now. If you beat the Bills, then that next week when you welcome Baltimore to town, Baltimore really needs to get that game to to end things for you. And if not, then you look up. Instead of four and eight, you’re six and eight. Everyone’s tight together. You have the tiebreaker over the Baltimore Ravens and you have some winnable games on the schedule. And that’s it is this Bengals team. There’s no margin for error. I’m going to get into some playoff percentages in a second, but I I just there is a chance now. And I started to look at the New York Times playoff predictor and I started to look at different outlines. All right, well this should happen or this happens or if that happens and the division is the easiest path. I think we all agree there. Joe Bro and the Bengals, it’s not great, but there is a chance. And Joe Burrow knows that if there’s going to be a chance, they have to win out. Here’s what he said right before. This was on Tuesday, right before that Thursday night win in Baltimore on his mindset and and what the Bengals have to do down the stretch in late November. They handled business in November and now going into December. I think we just got to take it one game at a time. I think um yeah, like you said, we pretty much have to win every game at this point and the only way that you’re going to do that is by attacking each week and like you have to be one and0 that week and then move on to the next. We’ll dive into the different playoff scenarios, percentages, and much much more. Coming up next, this show is brought to you by Factor. Factor is a gamecher. Look, we’re all busy. 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And and that’s the beauty of this is the next couple of weeks, if you handle business against these teams, well, then it goes up and up and up as you win. Of course, uh the following week, I believe that’s Miami, uh it would go up from 31% to to 46 47% in that range. Uh depending on what else happens. The point is is the Bengals, they have to win and if they win, they’re going to be in the mix and it’s going to feel eerily similar to last year, but it’s pretty doable and there’s not like 18 things that need to happen. The Ravens just need to end up with eight losses and the Steelers need need to lose a few of these games down the stretch and they certainly look beatable and Aaron Rogers is beat up in more ways than one and that offense just isn’t moving the ball and we’ll see. But it never really felt like they were in sync as a team against the Bills and they were at home. the Bills don’t have a good defense and the the Bills manhandled them and so the Steelers certainly seem vulnerable right now and uh look it this is always twofolded. It was last year too. You’re like all right well there’s a chance all of these things need to happen. and you need to get some help along the way. And then on the other side, I’m like, man, if you had just handled business earlier in the season, if you had just let Joe Burrow play against the Patriots, that’s why I was so hellbent on playing Joe is I knew physically he was ready to go. If you’re going to be able to play on a Thursday, you can play on a Sunday. There’s so many people that that were like, “Oh, well, they’re worried about how the toe would recover and all of those things.” I actually don’t think it was that. I just I I think that the the short week and the the fear of it was a factor there. But man, could you imagine if they had just beat the Patriots? Even after what happened with the Jets and what happened against the Bears, if you just beat the Patriots, you look at it, you’re like, well, they’d be right there, right in it. And they still are. They still are technically in it. They’re clinging to their chances. So, James, what happens if the Bengals went out? Well, if the Bengals win out and I don’t simulate anything else, 81% chance of making the playoffs. 81% chance. So, this Bengals team has a real chance if they handle their business. Got to handle their business. If they handle their business, a lot of the simulations, thousands and thousands of simulations, they make the playoffs 81% of the time. It’s going to be tough in Buffalo. James Cook was cooking. Obviously, we know what Josh Allen can do. We’ll see. plenty of time to dive into that. But hopefully you had a happy Thanksgiving. Hopefully it’s been a great weekend. We tried to give you a few days. 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The Bengals just took down the Ravens on Thursday night, but can they make the playoffs? In this episode of Cincinnati Bengals Talk, James Rapien breaks down the latest playoff scenarios for the Bengals — including how key wins and recent help from the Buffalo Bills have kept their postseason hopes alive.

Find out what needs to happen for Cincinnati to get into the playoffs, the must-win games on their schedule, and how Joe Burrow’s mindset is guiding the team through this high-stakes stretch. Rapien also covers playoff odds, the impact of divisional games, and why the Bengals still have a shot despite the tough road ahead.

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