CHASE AGAIN: Burrow and college chum Ja'Marr Chase have been electrifying in their first three games in the pros. Chase has four touchdowns, three from at least 34 yards out, and two crushing long balls in the last minute of the first halves that were huge in their two wins.
He's not only the tenth player in history to catch a touchdown pass in each of his first three games, according to Elias he's just the second player in the 51 years of the merger to have a touchdown reception of at least 25 yards in each of his first three games. Donte Stallworth did it in 2002.
Sunday's 34-yarder with 27 seconds left broke a 7-7 tie and raised the Bengals out of the funk of just allowing the Steelers to drive the thing for 15 plays in an excruciating 8:32.
But Burrow and Chase wiped away all the angst on one breath-taker.
"Ja'Marr came to me before that play and he was like 'Just throw it up to me, just throw it.' So I was like OK, I'll just throw it up and he went and got it," Burrow said. "I thought the corner (James) Pierre had pretty good coverage. but Ja'Marr just out-physicaled him and got to the ball. That's why you draft a guy like that to make those plays."
Chase said he went to Burrow with a scouting report.
"(Pierre) was just opening up his hips as soon as I go to him. He was just opening his hips real late. And I was telling Joe it would easy to take advantage of that," Chase said. "It was a hell of a throw by Joe. He didn't throw it behind, it wasn't a jump ball. But out front of me. Forward. That's what a receiver wants to make. An extended catch like I did. Perfect timing. That was a great play by Joe."
NO SACKS: It figures. The Bengals offensive line had been hammered for getting Burrow sacked nine times and hit 16 times coming into this one. Yet, the Bengals snapped the Steelers' NFL-record of 75 straight games with at least a sack.
The Steelers didn't have QB-wrecker T.J. Watt and the Bengals made it hurt. The signature moment was Burrow bouncing on his toes in the pocket in the red zone and waiting forever for Chase to break free of cornerback Joe Haden for the nine-yard touchdown pass that put them up 24-7 in the middle of the third quarter.
"That was my fifth option. You have time to get to your fifth option and you're always to get it," Burrow said. "I told the O-Line that was their touchdown. And when you have that kind of time in the red zone, we've got too many playmakers not to get open in that situation."
But the Bengals offensive line wouldn't have gotten the record if it wasn't for Burrow's Houdini job during the first series. Somehow he got seven yards on a scramble by running away from two linemen breaking free on a stunt. A very relieved Burrow, who admitted last week he just hadn't shown his mobility of last season, had a big smile post game as he talked about that one.
And the nine-yard run quarterback draw.
"It's really the first time I've done that this year," Burrow said. "I was doing that all the time last year making one, two, three guys miss in the pocket and escaping so that kind of signaled to me I'm back. It felt good and we're going to continue to do that."
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