‘We’re The Big Dogs And We’re Not Done Yet’

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. _ If anything, Joe Burrow knows the calendar and he broke into a wide smile Sunday after leading the Bengals through a swirling snow shower into next week’s second straight AFC title game in Kansas City after the Bengals’ dominant 27-10 Divisional win over the stunned Bills and their mourning-hush fans at Highmark Stadium.

“It was awesome,” said Joey Frost, when asked about his first snow game. “It felt like football in Dece—I guess its January, almost February. That was fun.”

In fact, you can add “The January Man,” to Burrow’s list of nicknames after he extended his streak of wins in December and January to 13. His dozen wins had put him on a list of just six other quarterbacks in the Super Bowl era. The Bayou legend showed his cold-weather Ohio DNA on his first nine passes. As the snow swirled, he got hotter. He hit all nine, two for touchdowns for 105 yards to six different receivers as the Bengals knocked the Bills flat, 14-0, in the first 9:31.

“Snow doesn’t affect the ball too much,” said Burrow after his bloody-efficient 101.9 passer rating consisting of no turnovers, those two touchdowns and 23 of 36 passing for 242 yards. “It might get a little wet, but it’s not rain or wind or anything like that. We’re confident in just about any weather that there is.”

Confidence is a good place to start defining this team. Head coach Zac Taylor is now 3-0 in AFC road playoff games after a near Bengals’ record postseason performance of 412 yards, 172 coming in the sudden re-emergence of the run game. And with the defense stifling Bills quarterback Josh Allen on 325 yards like he’s never been stuffed before in the playoffs, the Bengals took particular delight in shocking the experts with as complete a victory as they’ve had in the three seasons of Burrow Ball. (The Bengals’ postseason record is 439 yards in the 2013 Wild Card loss to the Chargers.)

“We came into their home field, they put up 10 freaking points and we got 27 and we’re on to KC and that’s…