The Cincinnati Bengals’ season is long over, and just four teams remain in contention for a Super Bowl triumph.
While Joe Burrow had an MVP-caliber season and Ja’Marr Chase led all NFL receivers, the Bengals missed the playoffs outright in 2024, finishing 9-8.
Cincinnati enters a busy summer as they seek to build around a superstar combo capable of accomplishing great things.
In fact, while Burrow’s tenure in Cincinnati has not gone as predicted in terms of results, the team has made the Super Bowl once and can do so again with him as quarterback.
Burrow has guided the Bengals to a Super Bowl loss, defeating Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, who have won three Super Bowls in a row and hope to win three more.
What only Joe Burrow and Tom Brady have done to Mahomes
Only one other quarterback has done what the LSU product did in taking down Mahomes in Arrowhead Stadium during the Chiefs’ recent supremacy, according to ESPN’s Ryan Clark on “First Take.”
“Only Joe Burrow and Tom Brady have found a way to go into Arrowhead and beat [Patrick Mahomes].”
For Burrow to have done what only Tom Brady has done — a seven-time Super Bowl winner — demonstrates just how terrific of a quarterback he is.
Now, Josh Allen looks to do the same as the Buffalo Bills head into Arrowhead Stadium and look to take down a resilient Mahomes-led Chiefs squad.
According to Cam Newton, on the same show, Allen is the superior of the two quarterbacks in the matchup.
“The better quarterback [in the AFC Championship game] will be Josh Allen,” Newton told reporters.
Regardless of how the weekend plays out, Burrow’s presence alongside Brady and maybe Allen bodes well for the Bengals, who will retool this offseason.
