The start wasn’t great.
The Eagles won the coin toss attended by identical twin captains for the day, Sidney and Chase Brown, and did what has become almost organizational writ. They deferred.
Joe Burrow and the Bengals promptly went on a methodical 17-play, 70-yard drive featuring five third-down conversions that took up over two-thirds of the first quarter, 10:04 minutes to be exact, the longest opening drive in the NFL this season…