December Dominators

Plus: Hendrickson Responds When Bengals Need It [View In Browser]( [Bengals Blitz]( [Mike Hilton]( WHY THE BENGALS ARE DECEMBER DOMINATORS "It's the structure of how we do things. Zac Taylor talks about this with the team. Everything we do is structured around playing our best football in December, January," said captain and left end Sam Hubbard. "We've definitely tried to lighten the workload early in the year. You don't need to be winning the Super Bowl in May and June. OTA practices are more about technique." The Bengals are riding a nine-game winning streak in December dating back to 2021 and since that season they're 16-4 in December and January, not counting the 2021 regular-season finale where the starters sat. [READ MORE]( [Top Headlines]( [Trey Hendrickson]( HENDRICKSON RESPONDS WHEN BENGALS NEED IT As the Bengals head to Pittsburgh for Saturday's AFC North showdown with the Steelers, right end Trey Hendrickson finds himself locked in a close race himself with Steelers All-Pro T.J. Watt. Hendrickson, who broke his own Bengals record last Saturday against the Vikings and became the franchise's first 15-sacker in a season, trails Watt's NFL-leading 16 sacks. "I've been saying this for three years," said Hendrickson before Tuesday's practice. "I don't chase stats. I pride myself on being able to be an impact player and that's the biggest thing to me. That I'm blessed to have that opportunity to make big plays and help our team win." It's been quite the three years in Cincinnati, where he has 37 sacks. His total of 50.5 in the decade trails only Watt (59) and Cleveland's Myles Garrett (50.5) on the NFL rolls. [READ MORE]( [Tyler Boyd]( THE CONVERSATION WITH TYLER BOYD Bengals.com senior writer Geoff Hobson did this week at Paycor Stadium what the Vikings couldn't do in overtime last Saturday and stopped Bengals wide receiver Tyler Boyd. The longest-tenured Bengal who has caught touchdown passes from five different quarterbacks and broken up a game with a sixth, Boyd reflected on his career and this season as he returns home to Pittsburgh this Saturday for a playoff atmosphere game against the Steelers on that Acrisure Stadium field he knows so well. Geoff Hobson: What's it like always going back to play on a field where you played some of your games for Clairton High School and all your college games? Tyler Boyd: It just always reminds me how I made it to this point. I played on that field at every level of my life. Each and every time I go on that field, I go down memory lane. I just think about all the things I've accomplished and why I'm here. [READ MORE]( [Tyler Boyd]( AN INSIDE LOOK AT ONE OF THOSE CLUTCH PLAYS The Bengals' three-game winning streak in the heart of a playoff run with Joe Burrow understudy Jake Browning has been a split-screen study of clever coaching and prodigious playmaking. Take Saturday in overtime against the Vikings and one of the most spectacular and clutch pitch-and-catches of the Burrow Era. Wide receiver Tyler Boyd, fittingly the longest-tenured Bengal, seemingly used a Hogwarts apparition with the help of Browning's wand to transport himself from a third-and-nine to a 44-yard catch-and-run that made Evan McPherson's winning 29-yard field goal academic. The wizardry conjured up a conversation Boyd had with wide receivers coach Troy Walters during the Bengals' surreal fourth quarter. [READ MORE]( [Tee Higgins]( ONE OF PAYCOR'S GREATEST COMBACKS IN OT THRILLER These Last Call Bengals did it again Saturday in the din of Paycor Stadium's 66,376. For the second time in a dozen days, the Everyman Browning was extraterrestrial with another overtime win against a division contender. Only this time they outdid themselves. While ringing up their biggest fourth-quarter comeback in five years when they erased a 14-point deficit for a 27-24 overtime victory over Jake Browning's first NFL team, they also wriggled back into the AFC playoff picture at 8-6 as the sixth seed on a day the 7-6 Steelers and Broncos lost. Isn't this where all this winning and believing began with head coach Zac Taylor's improbable Taylor-Made brews of resilience and resourcefulness crafted by Burrow at just the right moment? 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