{"id":597753,"date":"2023-01-15T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T15:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/15\/bengals-running-back-delivers-warning-to-afc-playoff-opponents\/"},"modified":"2023-01-15T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T15:50:11","slug":"bengals-running-back-delivers-warning-to-afc-playoff-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/15\/bengals-running-back-delivers-warning-to-afc-playoff-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals Running Back Delivers Warning to AFC Playoff Opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Last year, the Bengals\u2019 run to the Super Bowl caught most of the football world off guard. They won\u2019t be sneaking up on anyone this time around\u2014and, based on the words from their star running back, that\u2019s just the way they prefer it.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Mixon threw down the proverbial gauntlet on Thursday, three days before Cincinnati\u2019s wild-card round matchup with the division rival Ravens. Fresh off a 27\u201316 win over Baltimore in Week 18, Mixon had a clear message for Sunday\u2019s opponent and any other team standing in the way of the Bengals and the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re the big dogs of the AFC, and everybody knows that,\u201d Mixon said. \u201cThey\u2019re gunning for us, and we know we\u2019re going to get everybody\u2019s best shot. But at the end of the day, if we\u2019re not turning the ball over and taking care of the little things, we can\u2019t be beat. So we just got to go ahead and we\u2019re going to take everybody\u2019s best shot, but they better be ready to take ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/sitickets.com\/performer\/cincinnati-bengals?utm_source=si-editorial&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=cincinnati-bengals\" rel=\"noopener\" onclick=\"return phoenixTrackClickEvent(this, event);\" target=\"_blank\">Get your seats to Cincinnati Bengals games with SI Tickets<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mixon and the Bengals certainly have good cause to be confident. Cincinnati enters the postseason riding an eight-game winning streak, with the offense averaging 29 points per game during that stretch.<\/p>\n<p>When asked, Mixon said he wasn\u2019t concerned about providing motivation for the Ravens or any other potential AFC opponent, doubling down on his assertion that the Bengals were the team to beat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it was the Bills, the Ravens, it can be bulletin board material for anybody. But the facts is the facts. When it comes down to it, we know when we take the field, can\u2019t nobody touch us if we\u2019re on our game. So we\u2019ve just got to go ahead, go out there and take care of business so they know there\u2019s no other way around it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/2023\/01\/13\/bengals-running-back-joe-mixon-playoff-warning\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> Nick Selbe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the Bengals\u2019 run to the Super Bowl caught most of the football world off guard. They won\u2019t be sneaking up on anyone this time around\u2014and, based on the words from their star running back, that\u2019s just the way they prefer it.Joe Mixon threw down the proverbial gauntlet on Thursday, three days before Cincinnati\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22938,3790,92],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-597753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bengals","8":"category-football","9":"category-running"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}