Tee Higgins scores two touchdowns together with unimaginable effort to ship sport to extra time as Cincinnati Bengals beat Minnesota Vikings 27-24; Jordan Addison has six catches for 111 yards and two scores for Minnesota
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Highlights of the Minnesota Vikings in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals from Week 15 of the NFL
Highlights of the Minnesota Vikings in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals from Week 15 of the NFL
Evan McPherson kicked a 29-yard discipline aim with 3:11 left in extra time because the Cincinnati Bengals got here from behind to beat the Minnesota Vikings 27-24 on Saturday night time.
Quarterback Jake Browning related with Tyler Boyd for 44 yards on third-and-nine to maneuver the ball to the Vikings’ 13-yard line to arrange the game-winning kick for Cincinnati (8-6).
Earlier than then Tee Higgins caught a move on the Minnesota one-yard line, the place he prolonged his arm to stretch the ball over the goalline whereas being tackled by Akayleb Evans for a 21-yard, game-tying landing with 39 seconds left in regulation.
Browning completed 29-for-42 passing for 324 yards, two touchdowns with one interception.
The Bengals rallied from deficits of 17-3 and 24-17 within the fourth quarter, scoring 21 factors in quarter-hour to pressure extra time.
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A take a look at the Cincinnati Bengals’ Tee Higgins’ epic landing within the final minute of the sport to assist them pressure the sport to extra time in opposition to the Minnesota Vikings
The hosts stopped Minnesota (7-7) on fourth-and-one on the Cincinnati 42 with 6:12 left in extra time, giving the Bengals, who had the ball to start out the additional interval, one other likelihood to win the sport.
Vikings quarterback Nick Mullens threw a pair of landing passes to Jordan Addison, who completed with six catches for 111 yards whereas Ty Chandler arrange Minnesota’s go-ahead rating within the fourth quarter with a 30-yard yard run.
Chandler completed with 132 yards on 23 carries and a 1-yard TD run.
Stats leaders:
Minnesota Vikings
- Passing: Nick Mullens, 26/33, 303 yards, 2 TDs, 2 INTs
- Speeding: Ty Chandler, 23 carries, 132 yards, 1 TD
- Receiving: Jordan Addison, 6 catches, 111 yards, 2 TDs
Cincinnati Bengals
- Passing: Jake Browning, 29/42, 324 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT
- Speeding: Joe Mixon, 10 carries, 47 yards, 1 TD
- Receiving: Ja’Marr Chase, 4 catches, 64 yards
- Tee Higgins, 4 catches, 61 yards, 2 TDs
Bengals star defensive finish Trey Hendrickson was offsides with 6:21 left within the fourth quarter, wiping out a Germaine Pratt pick-6 that may’ve given the Bengals a late lead.
Hendrickson completed with 1.5 sacks and now has 15 for the season, surpassing his official franchise mark of 14 set in 2021.
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BJ Hill produced probably the most weird interceptions of the season for an enormous defensive cease in opposition to the Minnesota Vikings
The Bengals didn’t have the companies of star receiver Ja’Marr Chase on Cincinnati’s game-tying drive, as he headed to the locker room with a proper shoulder harm. He had 4 catches for 64 yards.
Earlier than the 13-yard Browning-to-Higgins landing connection to open the fourth quarter, the Vikings hadn’t allowed a landing since Courtland Sutton’s game-winning rating for Broncos on the finish of the sport on November 19 in Denver.
The Bengals began the scoring with a 34-yard Evan McPherson discipline aim for a 3-0 lead.
The Vikings then marched 75 yards in 12 performs for his or her first landing in three weeks, with the drive capped by a 1-yard run from Chandler with 2:23 left within the first quarter.
On the drive, the Bengals misplaced beginning nostril deal with DJ Reader to a proper knee harm, as he was carted off with 7:46 left within the first quarter.
Later within the first quarter, the Bengals misplaced one other defensive participant to a knee harm as DJ Ivey was carted to the locker room with a left knee harm whereas masking a punt.
The Vikings got here out of halftime and established a two-score lead when Mullens stood in throughout a heavy rush and located Addison over the center. Addison turned it right into a 37-yard catch-and-run for a landing and a 14-3 Minnesota lead.
Scoring abstract
Scoring abstract
| FIRST QUARTER | |
|---|---|
| Vikings 0-3 Bengals | Evan McPherson 34-yard discipline aim |
| Vikings 7-3 Bengals | Ty Chandler one-yard speeding TD (further level) |
| THIRD QUARTER | |
| Vikings 14-3 Bengals | Nick Mullens 37-yard TD move to Jordan Addison (further level) |
| Vikings 17-3 Bengals | Greg Joseph 39-yard discipline aim |
| THIRD QUARTER | |
| Vikings 17-10 Bengals | Jake Browning 13-yard TD move to Tee Higgins (further level) |
| Vikings 17-17 Bengals | Joe Mixon one-yard speeding TD (further level) |
| Vikings 24-17 Bengals | Nick Mullens one-yard TD move to Jordan Addison (further level) |
| Vikings 24-24 Bengals | Jake Browning 21-yard TD move to Tee Higgins (further level) |
| FOURTH QUARTER | |
| Vikings 24-27 Bengals | Evan McPherson 29-yard discipline aim |
What did they are saying?
Bengals head coach Zac Taylor on QB Browning: “Jake’s just so steady, you know? He really is. He doesn’t get rattled by a negative play. He doesn’t overreact to it.”
Vikings QB Mullens: “An absolute grind of a football game. But those are the types of games you want to be in.”
Bengals QB Browning, who was previously of the Vikings: “I think right after we made the field goal and won the game, I screamed at camera and said, ‘They never should have cut me’.”
What subsequent?
The Vikings are again in motion on Christmas Eve once they host the Detroit Lions, earlier than which the Bengals are on the street in opposition to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday.
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