The Cincinnati Bengals are trying to manufacture motivation for their Sunday Night Football matchup against the Buffalo Bills.
Their attempt is a real stretch, however.
On Thursday, two of the Bengals’ star receivers, Tyler Boyd and Ja’Marr Chase, claimed that multiple Bills players said they would have won last year’s playoff matchup had the game been played in better conditions.
“When we won in the snow, a couple of their players were saying if it wasn’t for the snow they would have beat us. We here now,” Boyd told the media. “So we’re going to see what the outcome is.”
“Yeah, I remember that,” Chase said. “It’s something crazy to say, but yeah I do. That don’t fire me up. It’s their opinion. We still won at the end of the day.”
The actual quote they’re alluding to, however, is much more innocent than what they’re claiming. And to make matters worse for them, the player who made the comments is no longer with Buffalo.
After the Bills’ season ended last season, wide receiver Isaiah McKenzie discussed the loss with Go Long’s Ty Dunne. McKenzie mentioned the weather affecting Buffalo’s play, but his comments toward Cincinnati were actually complimentary.
“The Bengals ran basic routes, maybe we should’ve did that, ran basic routes,” McKenzie told Dunne. “Like out routes, go balls, you know, instead of running routes that you have to be going lateral or coming back to the football, or turning and running curls and things like that. If we were in a dame it would have been a totally different game.”
McKenzie’s comments are pointing out that the Bengals’ game plan was built for the elements whereas Buffalo’s did not work due to the snow and slippery conditions of the field.
One Bengals analyst, however, was not surprised to see a few players using McKenzie’s comments as motivation. Joe Goodberry of Bengals on the Brain said the team takes everything as a slight.
“Bills fans struggling to realize the Bengals take…
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