The Cincinnati Bengals entered the season with Super Bowl aspirations. Now entering November, they are 3-5 and will still be searching for their first home win when they host the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday afternoon. The Bengals are coming off an embarrassing 37-17 home loss to the Philadelphia Eagles that had fans leaving in droves with 11 minutes left in the fourth quarter.
Cincinnati fell to 0-4 at home. The Bengals are mired in third place in the AFC North with a suddenly struggling offense that hasn't reached 20 points in three straight games after a three-game span of scoring at least 33. "(The urgency is) as high as it can be," said Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.
"This is a must-win game. We're 3-5. You go to 3-6, you basically have to win out.
We've done it before. I know the players we have. You have to treat it week by week.
Any game is winnable. You've just got to go and do it." The Bengals' running game is ranked 28th in the NFL, averaging just 89.
8 yards per game. The run game was particularly poor last Sunday as feature backs Chase Brown and Zack Moss combined to gain 43 yards on 17 carries. "We've put ourselves in a bad spot, but it's not a spot that we can't get ourselves out of," said head coach Zac Taylor.
"I know that we believe that. We're not even yet at the halfway point of the season. There's going to be a lot of opportunity here.
We've just got to stick together and keep working, find some wins and string it together." The Raiders (2-6) are coming of.
