When it rains, it pours for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Joe Burrow’s nice season hasn’t been sufficient to maintain his workforce afloat, and the league doesn’t appear to love their probabilities of turning issues round.
With that in thoughts, they’ve formally flexed them out of Thursday Evening Soccer.
The Bengals have been imagined 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 report and the Bengals not a lot better at 4-7.
As a substitute, 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 relatively be flexed in than flexed out,” he admitted.
Sean Payton defined why the Broncos being flexed to Week 16’s recreation in opposition to the Chargers to Thursday Evening Soccer. pic.twitter.com/WPyN2zCP36
Not many individuals anticipated the Broncos to be nearly as good or aggressive as they’ve been this season.
They’re presently 6-5, they usually’ve stored it shut even within the losses.
Their protection continues to be among the best within the recreation, 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 prone to maintain going robust within the subsequent month, likelihood is that recreation might need some main implications for the postseason race.
We might even see a “win and get in” situation for this primetime, hard-nosed, bodily divisional matchup.
The Broncos are lastly trying just like the workforce the followers hoped they’d be with Coach Payton on the helm, they usually appear to have a vivid future forward of them.
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