Chiefs vs Bengals

The Kansas City Chiefs take on Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC championship game Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET on CBS. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs have hosted an ...

On top of beating the Chiefs three straight times, the Bengals are a perfect 3-0 in AFC championship games. Mahomes (ankle) was a full participant in practice all week and is slated to start Sunday. The forecast was for the wind-chill factor to dip to 0 degrees by the end of the game. He was ruled out for the rest of the game shortly before halftime. ] [The game quickly spiraled out of control for the 49ers when quarterback Brock Purdy ] [suffered an elbow injury](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/niners/2023/01/29/brock-purdy-49-ers-qb-elbow-injury/11146329002/) in the first quarter. [Eagles advance to Super Bowl] [The Eagles defeated the San Francisco 49ers 31-7 in the NFC championship game. Philadelphia outperformed San Francisco in all phases of the game. In another sense, there's still a victory in there for the Bengals. “I talked to Tom (Brady) a little bit. Bengals receiver Tyler Boyd, who extended the drive with two catches on the drive, appeared to be injured following his second catch. The Bengals defense forced Kansas City to go 1 of 5 on third downs. Kansas City’s defense sacked quarterback Joe Burrow four times in the first half.

Live updates: Who will come out on top in the latest battle between Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow? Join David Lengel for the latest action.

What the Chiefs need to do to win: Mahomes needs to be at least 80% of his best. What the Bengals need to do to win: The offensive line has to prove that their remarkable performance against the Bills wasn’t a fluke. If Mahomes were healthy, it would be difficult to pick against the Chiefs at home despite the fact that he is 1-3 against Burrow’s Cincinnati in his career, including that memorable collapse during last year’s AFC Championship Game. Meanwhile, the Cincinnati Bengals, who upset the Chiefs in last year’s AFC title game, had to take the scenic route after going a mere 12-4 in the regular season. The Bengals are going to start strongly, get a proper stomp on through the first three quarters, but the Chiefs have strength in depth, and most of all, resolve. Story of the season: The Kansas City Chiefs went 14-3 in the regular season, thus earning the all-important bye week in the AFC. I like the Bengals in something of a cake walk, 31-21, with Mahomes suffering through a tough outing on one leg. That’s the QB situation: we’ll take a look at some of the other fun factors leading up to kickoff, but for now, settle in, drink your drink, and if you like, drop me a line. That is the longest streak to begin a career in the Super Bowl era.” Hi folks and welcome to our coverage of the American Football Conference Championship game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Kansas City Chiefs. That is absolutely a 9.5 out of 10, the highest I’ve given in a very, VERY long time. Mahomes hits Kelce, who laterals it to Jerick Mckinnon who drops the ball on the 20 and falls on it!

At halftime of the AFC title game, the Kansas City Chiefs lead the Cincinnati Bengals by a score of 13-6. Patrick Mahomes -- playing just eight days after ...

And he just picked up a huge return to get the Chiefs close to FGF range. He broke a tackle and took off for a huge play last week against Jacksonville, and just did the same here. Cook tipped it up in the air and Williams (who is filling in for Sneed) came down with it. And obviously, the Chiefs have both of their timeouts to conserve time and try to get the ball back. Chiefs will get the ball for one last go at it. And Chris Jones picks up the sack! And now the Chiefs are in clear field-goal range. Mahomes scrambles for the first down and then gets hit late out of bounds. Mahomes and the Chiefs offense responded to that Cincy score with an 11-play, 77-yard touchdown drive of their own to retake the lead. Mahomes scrambled up the right side of the field for five yards and was hit out of bounds, which drew an unnecessary roughness penalty to put them within Butker's range and send them to the Super Bowl. From here, the Chiefs will travel to Arizona, where they'll face the Philadelphia Eagles, who defeated the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship earlier Sunday. Harrison Butker was able to kick the 45-yard game-winning field goal after Patrick Mahomes and the offense moved the ball 39 yards down the field with less than 30 second left in regulation.

The AFC Championship Game is here, and the winner moves on to represent the conference in Super Bowl LVII. Join us here for the game!

This is Cincy’s second-consecutive trip to the AFC Championship Game, as well as being the second-consecutive at Kansas City, where they won the AFC title a year ago. [cbssports.com](http://cbssports.com/) This is Kansas City’s fifth-consecutive AFC Championship Game, hosting the conference title each of the last four years, going 2-2 in those games, both losses coming in overtime.

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Neither side was properly able to gain a foothold late in the contest until the very end, when a mad dash from Chiefs WR Skyy Moore off of a Bengals punt got the home side into prime field position. It would take some magic from Mahomes and top target Travis Kelce to bring up the first touchdown of the night, seeing the Chiefs take a 13-3 lead. That scoreline soon became 13-13 early in the second half, as Bengals WR Tee Higgins leapt high to haul in a pass from Burrow to score the team's first touchdown of the evening. With that touchdown wiped off the board and Kansas City picking up another penalty, the Chiefs would yet again turn to Butker to add a field goal and make it 6-0. Having forced the Bengals to punt it away on their opening drive, the Chiefs then quickly moved the ball down the field after a pair of 16-yard gains from Travis Kelce and Isiah Pacheco. The Kansas City Chiefs are through to the Super Bowl as a last-second field goal from kicker Harrison Butker secured a 23-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship game.

These two teams met earlier this season, as well as in the conference championship game last year. Cincinnati won both of those contests, but the Chiefs are ...

[Ja'Marr Chase](/nfl/players/2966320/jamarr-chase/) [View Profile](/nfl/players/2966320/jamarr-chase/) (Two of the six games where he took longer were the AFC title game loss to Cincinnati last year, and the Even in the loss to Cincinnati earlier this season, Mahomes completed 16 of 27 passes for 223 yards (8.2 per attempt) and a touchdown, while also adding a score on the ground. The Bengals got a lot better at running the ball once they moved away from the way they wanted to run the ball at the beginning of the season. Honestly, I have no idea, and I think anyone (other than maybe the Chiefs' team doctors) who tells you they know with any degree of certainty is lying. Jacksonville's top receiving threat was [Christian Kirk](/nfl/players/2180820/christian-kirk/), so the Chiefs moved Sneed into the slot again. [Ja'Marr Chase](/nfl/players/2966320/jamarr-chase/) and [Tee Higgins](/nfl/players/2809208/tee-higgins/) give him two alpha No. The top threats for Cincinnati remain Chase and Higgins, not [Tyler Boyd](/nfl/players/2071582/tyler-boyd/), so it might make sense to get Sneed back to the perimeter and allow McDuffie to try to play physically against Boyd inside. How would the group in front of [Joe Burrow](/nfl/players/2179798/joe-burrow/) hold up while down three starters, and counting on the likes of [Jackson Carman](/nfl/players/2963278/jackson-carman/), [Hakeem Adeniji](/nfl/players/2261269/hakeem-adeniji/), and [Max Scharping](/nfl/players/2139404/max-scharping/)? [Buffalo Bills](https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/teams/BUF/buffalo-bills/) was the offensive line. Burrow's superpower is his ability to quickly decide where he is going with the ball and get it out of his hands when the situation calls for him to do so, but he also has the extended play ability that the league's other superstar quarterbacks bring to the table. The Chiefs actually pressured opposing quarterbacks at a higher rate (35.7%) during the regular season than did the Bills (33.7%).

The officiating down the stretch of the AFC championship game is under a microscope.

Cincinnati picked up a first down after the grounding call, and the Chiefs picked up minimal yardage after the extra third-down play. Those are the plays that will be talked about, but the Chiefs were on the receiving end of seemingly raw deals, too. Second, on the play in which Joseph Ossai would enter Bengals infamy, there was an argument that officials missed defensive lineman Trey Hendrickson being held. The result of that conversation was that the third-down play would not count because the clock mistakenly ran off extra time after the second-down play in that series. There was no CIN receiver in the immediate area of the pass. In the fourth quarter alone of Sunday's Bengals vs.

The Kansas City Chiefs have avenged their AFC Championship loss of a year ago and finally got into the win column against Joe Burrow and the Bengals, ...

And he just picked up a huge return to get the Chiefs close to FGF range. However, Zac Taylor elected to keep his offense on the field for a fourth-and-6 attempt, which was one of the gutsiest calls of the night. He broke a tackle and took off for a huge play last week against Jacksonville, and just did the same here. Eli Apple was called for DPI on a third-and-9 to erase a sack on Mahomes, and, of course, the unnecessary roughness penalty on Joseph Ossai assisted in allowing the game-winning field goal. While the running game had been nonexistent for the Bengals in this game (Perine and Mixon combined for 41 yards rushing), this might have been a spot to simply move the chain and live to fight another down. That punt was returned 29 yards by rookie Skyy Moore which put the offense already at midfield, needing a manageable amount of yards to get within field goal range. That set the tone for the remainder of the game and helped force the quarterback into two interceptions. That score stood at 20 for the bulk of the fourth quarter until Kansas City's defense was able to force a punt with less than a minute in regulation, and the offense took care of the rest to clinch their spot in the Super Bowl. Over that stretch, the defense was able to play stout against the Chiefs, but they still came away with a field goal to go up 6-0. While this was before Mahomes aggravated the ankle, he was still limited in his mobility but extended the play enough to eventually find Travis Kelce -- who was also dealing with an injury of his own -- for the touchdown. Mahomes scrambled up the right side of the field for five yards and was hit out of bounds, which drew an unnecessary roughness penalty to put them within Butker's range and send them to the Super Bowl. Harrison Butker was able to kick the 45-yard game-winning field goal after Patrick Mahomes and the offense moved the ball 39 yards down the field with less than 30 seconds left in regulation.

While Kansas City is hosting the game for the fifth consecutive year, the Chiefs have had to fight for their status as favorites. With Patrick Mahomes battling ...

ET (5:30 p.m. - Time: 6:30 p.m. The AFC championship game between the Bengals and Chiefs will kick off at 6:30 p.m. [DAZN](https://prf.hn/click/camref:1100lfPvV)(Canada) — The Bengals will start with the ball. — A false start backs the Bengals up on third down. — The Chiefs are rolling right now. INTERCEPTION — Burrow is picked off by Jaylen Watson, and the Chiefs will start with strong field position. — The Chiefs' defense had a big opportunity on third down, but a designed run up the middle by Burrow gives the Bengals a first down and more. TOUCHDOWN — Mahomes fits it in a tight window and finds Valdes-Scantling on the ground in the end zone. — The Chiefs are back to 3rd & 9. — The Chiefs are called for holding, and the Bengals accept it after deliberating.