The Cincinnati Bengals answered any questions about their strength with a historic comeback against Tom Brady and the Brady Bunch.
It was the first time in 90 games that a Brady-led club lost a home game after leading by at least 17 points.
Cincinnati's defense was shown how tough it was by the 34 consecutive points scored by the Bengal's. Brady said the Cincinnati defense was tough.
Cincinnati's defenders made fun of the comments after forcing four turnovers in the win.
"Hearing that from an old, savvy vet from him, we are a fairly tough defense, with four turnovers, what would you say?" "After the game, I said that."
The Cincinnati team was off to a poor start against a team that was in the running for the division title. The offense was held to a season-high 261 first-half yards after being picked off on the team's first drive. On the final drive of the half, Cincinnati went up-tempo and produced a field goal to make the score 17-3.
The unit's early performance fit the description, even if Brady's comments weren't meant to be a dig.
I'm not going to lie to you, we played that way in the first half. In the second half, we came out and played our game.
After a fake punt gave the Reds the ball deep in their own territory, things went from bad to worse for the Bolts. Brady and the offense turned the ball over four times in a row. Cincinnati started four straight possessions on the other side of the field due to two turnovers and an pick six.
Brady said that the two turnovers were his fault and that one of the picks was a bad throw.
The team went for a fake punt with the score 17-3.
It was fourth- and-1. He said that they missed the ball because they had a front that they could take advantage of.
He was 27 of 39 for 200 yards and 4 touchdown.
During his postgame news conference, he said that the pinkie on his right hand was nothing serious.
He won't call Sunday's performance one of his favorites. It shows that the Cincinnati group can find ways to win games.
"We're never out of the woods," he added. We always come back and make it a game, that's what we've done before. They were put away in the second half.
Brady made comments about Cincinnati's defense, but he didn't mean to offend anyone. That didn't stop Brady from mentioning it a lot. Eli Apple shouted "The future is now, old man!" as he walked away from the field.
When Cincinnati fell behind early, there was some banter between the two teams.
When we got up on them, they didn't say a lot. I told them to be patient. In the second half, I knew what we would do. We accomplished that.
Cincinnati's players talked about having a unit that was as tough as nails during the week, according to the safety, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. That was on full display in the comeback win, which gave Brady a type of loss he had never experienced before.
"We don't pay much attention to what people say." Week in and week out it is how it is. Someone is going to make a statement. They had to see us at the end.
The story was contributed to by a person from the sports network.