{"id":21076,"date":"2022-01-26T00:36:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T00:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/?p=21076"},"modified":"2022-01-29T06:51:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T06:51:58","slug":"afc-championship-cincinnati-bengals-at-kansas-city-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/nfl\/afc-championship-cincinnati-bengals-at-kansas-city-chiefs\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC CHAMPIONSHIP: CINCINNATI BENGALS AT KANSAS CITY CHIEFS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFirstMan\">BY ADAM GREENE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people might say that the AFC Championship happened a week ago when the Kansas City Chiefs outlasted the Buffalo Bills in overtime. I am not one of those people. These Cincinnati Bengals earned their way to the AFC title game, beating these same Chiefs along the way. Now, we get the rematch \u2014 Burrow vs. Mahomes 2, when Cincinnati makes its way to Arrowhead to face the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bengals vs Chiefs Expert Betting Tips Against the Spread | BetOnline All Access\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O_AGD0rXgcw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chiefs, thanks to these Bengals, are hosting their fourth consecutive AFC Championship. Patrick Mahomes has yet to play a road playoff game in his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cincinnati\u2019s QB, Joe Burrow, has not to lost a playoff game in college and the pros. So that might be something you want to factor in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the 31<sup>st<\/sup> all time meeting between the two franchises with the Bengals holding a 16-14 advantage. The Bengals not only won their match up this year, back on Jan. 2, but have won five of the last six going back to 2008. They have never met in the posteason before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cincy took that Jan. 2 game 34-31 with a last second field goal at Paul Brown Stadium. Joe Burrow finished 30 of 39 for 446 yards and four touchdowns in the win. Joe Mixon rushed for 48 yards and caught seven passes for 40 yards. Ja\u2019Marr Chase caught 11 passes for 266 yards and three touchdowns. Mahomes finished with 259 yards and two touchdowns with no picks. Darrel Williams rushed 14 times for 88 yards and Tyreek Hill caught six passes for 40 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CINCINNATI<\/strong><strong> BENGALS AT KANSAS CITY CHIEFS (-7.5, O\/U: 54.5)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> GEHA at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Mo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Broadcast:<\/strong> CBS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kickoff:<\/strong> Jan. 30, 3 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CINCINNATI<\/strong><strong> BENGALS (12-7)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bengals are making playoff nailbiters their modus operandi. Last Saturday Cincinnati traveled to the No. 1 seeded Tennessee Titans and knocked them off 19-16 with a last second field goal after a scoreless fourth quarter. Burrow finished 28 of 37 for 348 yards and an interception in spite of being sacked a playoff record nine times (in a win). Mixon rushed for 54 yards and a score and added 51 yards through the air. Chase caught five passes for 109 yards. Cincy\u2019s defense sacked Ryan Tannehill once and picked him off three times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>KANSAS CITY<\/strong><strong> CHIEFS (14-5)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kansas City survived what might have been the best playoff game of all time, beating the Buffalo Bills 42-36 in overtime. Mahomes finished the day 33 of 44 for 378 yards and three touchdowns. He also led the team in rushing with seven carries for 69 yards and a TD. Clyde Edwards-Helaire had seven carries for 60 yards. Hill caught 11 passes for 150 yards and a score. KC\u2019s defense sacked Josh Allen twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE PICK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the divisional round, nothing would surprise me here. Both final four games are rematches from the regular season and the team hosting the title game lost those regular season games. Burrow is just as capable as Allen and Mahomes when it comes to a track meet and he\u2019s got better supporting players at the skill positions than Allen. I won\u2019t predict a Kansas City loss, but I\u2019m betting it\u2019ll be closer than -7.5. <strong>Chiefs 27, Bengals 24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Last Week<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Straight up:<\/strong> 1-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Against the spread:<\/strong> 3-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Playoffs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Straight up:<\/strong> 6-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Against the spread:<\/strong> 6-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Season<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Straight up:<\/strong> 176-105-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Against the spread:<\/strong> 149-133<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Follow Adam Greene on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFirstMan\">@TheFirstMan<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the NFL\u2019s Championship Sunday and the schedule is up and <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.betonline.ag\/sportsbook\/football\/nfl\">taking bets at BetOnline.AG<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Connect with us our socials on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/betonline_ag\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/betonline_ag\/\">Instagram<\/a> for the latest sports news, viral moments, betting odds and the occasional memes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY ADAM GREENE Some people might say that the AFC Championship happened a week ago when the Kansas City Chiefs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":13270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21123,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076\/revisions\/21123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}