The Cincinnati Bengals decided to move on front defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo after the season and he's quickly turned around and become a hot item on the NFL rumor mill, scoring his first intervi

Kansas City Chiefs' star tight end Travis Kelce angrily dismisses talk that his team purposefully lost a game to avoid playing the Cincinnati Bengals in the playoffs.

The Cincinnati Bengals are not one of those teams, seeing their playoff hopes fade away after the Broncos blew out the Chiefs’ second-stringers in Week 18. Amid unfounded rumors that the Chiefs purposefully gave up during their loss to Denver to ensure the Bengals would be eliminated,

Tight end Travis Kelce talked about Cincinnati fans saying the Chiefs threw the season finale to block the Bengals from the postseason.

Top-seeded Kansas City sitting its starters against Denver didn't prevent plenty of skeptics from suggesting the Chiefs surrendered in order to prevent the Bengals from making the playoffs. Travis Kelce scoffed at such a thought.

They cannot claim full credit for this year's outcome, but some fans still enjoyed the pain of their rivals while avoiding a possible Joe Burrow revenge game this postseason. "Bengals fans really gonna hate us after this game,

Despite some alluding to the Chiefs' Week 18 loss being intentional, Kelce silenced that with a rant on his latest podcast.

The Bengals closed the campaign with five straight victories and could have featured the league's MVP winner for the regular season had they made the playoffs.

The Chiefs were shut out against the Broncos to close out the regular season. That Kansas City loss eliminated the Cincinnati Bengals from playoff contention.

The combatants will be tackling opponents from their own respective conferences and therefore most would have faced each other at least once this season, the exceptions being two of the AFC matchups: the Houston Texans vs the Chargers (last played each other in October 2022,

Jackson owns a 2-4 record in the playoffs, having thrown six interceptions while fumbling six times (losing three) in the postseason. He has thrown for six touchdowns and rushed for three in his playoff career. In other words, production needs to increase and miscues need to decrease.