CINCINNATI – The Cincinnati Bengals defense knew third-and-short essentially would be automatic conversions for the Philadelphia Eagles and their perfected “Brotherly Shove” short-yardage play.
The intent was to make sure to get the Eagles in longer third down conversions.
And the Cincinnati defense did that on multiple occasions. But the Bengals also failed to get off the field on too many of those third downs, and the end result was a 37-17 loss in which the Philadelphia offense held the ball for 31 minutes and 48 seconds of the game’s final 49 minutes and 56 seconds…