What the Bengals Said After Knocking Ravens Out of the Playoffs

What do you make of Sam Hubbard’s 98-yard touchdown run that gave you the go-ahead score?

“That’s why you never give up on a drive, even when it’s down there inside the two-yard line. It’s what our defense — the whole red zone, the last couple years, it’s been awesome from our defense and today is no different. For Logan (Wilson) to knock that ball out and Sam to finish (the play) off 98 yards later, it really changed the momentum of the game because you’re looking at a 14-point swing right there, going down seven (points) and then being up seven. It was a challenge on offense, certainly. It’s one of the better defenses we face all year. We knew that going in. Our defense really carried us in the fourth quarter. We really needed that.”

Have you ever seen a Ravens defense play the way they did today with not allowing anything except underneath?

“They did a good job. They’ve got a lot of help with guys up front, the (line)backers are rotating through there and they’re good at every level of defense. They make you earn it. You’re not going to get off any explosive (plays). That’s the biggest thing — that’s why our drives were so long with so many plays because all three times we played them, all of our drives have been over 10-play drives. It was a strange game. You get three possessions in the first half. We got our third possession with four minutes left in the half and it felt like that’s just the way it is. Every possession is so critical because those two turnovers we got on defense — you win the turnover battle two-to-one and you win the game in a game like that. There’s no secret sauce there.”

It seemed like one of the critical sequences in the game was when Jonah Williams went down, then you hold the Ravens to a field goal right before the half for them to have a one-point lead. Then in the third quarter, they get the ball and you stop them and then you go down and score a touchdown. Can you talk about with everything swirling around…