Crushing What Ifs: Cincinnati Bengals Defense SURPRISES, Offense FALLS Short in Critical Loss

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🗓️ 23 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Cincinnati Bengals suffered another heartbreaking home loss to the New England Patriots, with "what ifs" like Zac Taylor's fourth-down decisions in the way of nearly stealing a win. Jake Liscow and James Rapien spotlight a strong defensive effort, Chase Brown’s effectiveness, Evan McPherson’s record-setting field goal, and Geno Stone’s bounceback game as bright spots as Joe Flacco and the passing offense let the Bengals down.

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0:00.0	It was another brutal loss for the Cincinnati Bengals to the New England Patriots at home
0:04.8	and a season of what ifs continues.
0:13.2	You are locked on Bengals, your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast, part of the Locked on Podcast Network,
0:22.8	your team every day. What up Bengals fans. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:26.9	What up Bengals fans and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast.
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0:35.1	He's James Rapids.
0:38.3	I'm Jake Lisco, and we've been Lockdown Bengals on this podcast since 2016. Your best stop on the internet, one stop shop for all things Bengals. And we're
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0:54.6	And James, it was another gut punch for the Cincinnati Bengals, another rough loss in a season
1:00.6	of rough losses. But the story to get there is a little bit different this week as we
1:06.5	played the Will Joe Burrow play game all week. And Jamar Chase had a suspension. And then there are a
1:13.5	bunch of decisions in this game that I want to talk about from Zach Taylor's point of view that
1:17.4	I didn't love. And we're going to play the what if game with some of those decisions as well.
1:22.6	And that's why the what if point is salient to me, James, is because there's so many things
1:27.8	that could have just gone different in this game
1:29.9	ever so slightly, and we could be talking
1:32.0	about the Bengals stealing one,
1:33.1	because the Bengals defense in this game
1:34.8	was the average looking defense
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