Overview
- The Bengals became the first NFL team since the 1960s to score 38 or more in consecutive games and lose both.
- Cincinnati surrendered 576 yards to Chicago and yielded a 58-yard Caleb Williams-to-Colston Loveland touchdown with 17 seconds left.
- The defense allowed at least 275 passing yards and 275 rushing yards in the same game, a feat matched by only nine other teams in league history.
- They have given up 27-plus points and 350-plus total yards in eight straight games and are allowing 33.3 points per game, the highest since the 1966 Giants.
- Analysts cite an offseason defensive teardown, contract disputes, retirements, releases, low defensive spending, plus years of drafting misses as drivers of the collapse, with Pittsburgh up next on Nov. 16 after the bye.