With the ball and the deficit, Burrow connected with Chase several times on the next drive. With 14:27 left in the game, the Bengals were trailing again, down 21-14. They got back in the red zone and all the way to the red zone, and Robinson collected his second touchdown of the night. The Jaguars’ offense got back on track, helped by a missed tackle from Darius Phillips. The 14-point lead vanished, and with 5:10 to go in the third quarter, the Bengals had tied the game at 14 points apiece. Joe Mixon got the ball all the way down to the one-yard line, and then finished it off for a short touchdown. The Bengals forced a three-and-out, and kept the momentum going. With 13:12 to go in the third, the Bengals cut into the Jaguars’ lead, down 14-7 after Evan McPherson’s extra point. Uzomah for a 22-yard touchdown pass to give the Bengals their first score of the game. A 44-yard pass to Ja’Marr Chase set up the Bengals with great field position. The Bengals finally stepped on the gas when they got the ball after the second half kickoff. The Bengals couldn’t get the Jaguars off schedule, so they were able to keep moving down the field. The Jaguars converted four of their seven third downs. On defense, the Bengals were just as bad. The play-calling was, for the most part, conservative and the Bengals didn’t show any signs of life. Excluding the first drive, the Bengals gained one first down and punted three times. The Bengals played a very uninspired first half on both sides of the ball. The Jaguars gained 14 first downs in the first half, and they ate up significant time of possession, so they took a 14-0 lead with 4:50 to go until halftime. Each time was a run to Trevor Lawrence, and the final time it was a seven yard touchdown. The Bengals’ defense had trouble getting off the field on third down, as the Jaguars converted third-and-two three times in one drive. Matthew Wright’s extra point was good, and the Jaguars took a 7-0 lead with 1:28 in the first quarter. James Robinson ran three times for 20 yard opened the scoring with a six-yard touchdown. Running the ball is the only thing that Jaguars have been able to do well this year, so they stuck with that for most of the first quarter. His best receiver was Tyler Boyd, who had nine receptions for 118, despite dinging up his hand during the game. He completed nearly three fourths of his passes for more than ten yards per attempt. Joe Burrow was solid in the first half, but in the second, he was on fire. While the Bengals didn’t score a single point in the first half, they scored on every possession they had in the second. But they flipped the switch, and finally looked like the team that beat the Steelers a week ago. The Cincinnati Bengals looked lost and uninspired in the first half, and were on the wrong end of a shutout to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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