{"id":842368,"date":"2026-03-30T05:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/842368\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T05:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:12:15","slug":"cincinnati-bengals-dan-pitcher-makes-kansas-city-chiefs-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/842368\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Bengals&#8217; Dan Pitcher Makes Kansas City Chiefs Admission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Losing in the AFC Championship Game the next season to the Kansas City Chiefs, Cincinnati again fell short. In the last three seasons, the Bengals have missed the playoffs entirely. Going 9\u20138 in both 2023 and 2024, Cincinnati took another step backwards last season, finishing 6\u201311. A lot of this was due to Joe Burrow appearing in just eight games, but there were deeper issues, most notably a defense that ranked 30th in points allowed out of 32 NFL teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Losing in the AFC Championship Game the next season to the Kansas City Chiefs, Cincinnati again fell short.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-842368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116316415673867348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}