{"id":416354,"date":"2023-01-19T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=416354"},"modified":"2023-01-19T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T13:37:00","slug":"were-not-an-underdog-to-anybody-cincinnati-bengals-head-coach-hits-out-at-betting-lines-ahead-of-bills-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/were-not-an-underdog-to-anybody-cincinnati-bengals-head-coach-hits-out-at-betting-lines-ahead-of-bills-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We\u2019re Not an Underdog to Anybody\u201d- Cincinnati Bengals Head Coach Hits Out at Betting Lines Ahead of Bills Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been a pretty good season for Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals so far. The season started horribly for Joe Burrow and co as they lost three of their first five games. However, things started to pick up as the season went on and the team started to gel well together considering there were a number of new additions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fueled and focused. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sn4Z077PZj\">pic.twitter.com\/sn4Z077PZj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bengals\/status\/1615814466741932034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cincinnati <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/\">Bengals<\/a> haven\u2019t lost since falling to the Browns on Halloween, winning nine straight games. This was enough to get them a spot in the playoffs but not the top seed, which means they had to overcome the Baltimore Ravens to set up a game against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. The week 17 clash between the two teams ended up in tragedy after Damar Hamlin\u2019s near-fatal accident. Given that the two teams have already prepared for and played each other it will be interesting to see how the second game shapes up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Zac Taylor backs the Cincinnati Bengals\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leading up to the game against the Bills, the oddsmakers aren\u2019t really convinced by last year\u2019s conference champions. Buffalo is a five-point favorite over Cincinnati Bengals for the divisional-round matchup.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Head Coach Zac Taylor Press Conference <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CifpLtfddQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/CifpLtfddQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bengals\/status\/1615814046103572489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, head coach Zac Taylor does not really see it the same way. In a recent press conference, he said,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cWe know that we\u2019re the defending AFC Champions. So, there\u2019s an edge to this team where we\u2019re not an underdog to anybody. And so, I think that\u2019s just been the feeling we\u2019ve had all season. We don\u2019t really care what anybody else says about us. We know we belong in the field with every team in this league.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Burrow speaks to the media. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aTdWRRUnIp\">https:\/\/t.co\/aTdWRRUnIp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bengals\/status\/1615805119223762969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked about facing the Bills in such a short period of time he said, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe just did this with Baltimore, playing them back-to-back weeks. It is a little bit unusual the way that the season has unfolded for us in the last four weeks in terms of playing two opponents over the last 28 days. Our guys have handled it well. \u2026 They understand the process we follow each week and they\u2019ve done a good job handling it all.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/bro-why-are-you-thinking-mvp-rob-gronkowski-slams-aaron-rodgers-for-his-recent-ambitions\/\">\u201cBro, Why Are You Thinking MVP\u201d- Rob Gronkowski Slams Aaron Rodgers for His Recent Ambitions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/rob-gronkowski-reveals-he-ripped-beers-after-a-big-win-in-the-nfl\/\">Rob Gronkowski Reveals He Ripped Beers After a Big Win in the NFL<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a pretty good season for Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals so far. The season started horribly for Joe Burrow and co as they lost three of their first five games. However, things started to pick up as the season went on and the team started to gel well together considering there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":416355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cincinnati-bengals","category-nfl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}