BENGALS’ DRIVE CHART
FIRST QUARTER
Start: Bengals 42-yard line. Duration: 4 plays, 9 yards, 1:57. Result: Turnover on downs. Why the drive stalled: On fourth and one, Joe Burrow’s pass to Ja’Marr Chase is knocked away by linebacker Ernest Jones. Start: Bengals 25. Duration: 3 plays, 6 yards, 1:34. Result: Punt on fourth and four. Why the drive stalled: Burrow’s deep pass to Chris Evans is overthrown on third and four. Start: Bengals 30. Duration: 6 plays, 59 yards, 1:41. Result: Evan McPherson 29-yard field goal. Key plays: Burrow 46-yard pass to Chase to the Rams’ 11. Burrow’s pass to Tee Higgins on third and 10 is incomplete.
SECOND QUARTER Start: Bengals 25. Duration: 12 plays, 75 yards, 7:04. Result: Running back Joe Mixon throws six-yard touchdown pass to Higgins. Key plays: Burrow 10-yard pass to Chase on secondand-seven from Bengals’ 39. Mixon 14-yard run to Rams’ 37. Burrow 14-yard pass to Higgins on third and six to Rams’ 19. Start: Bengals 10. Duration: 5 plays, 7 yards, 1:30.
Result: Punt on fourth and 14. Why the drive stalled: Burrow is sacked by Leonard Floyd for a loss of eight yards on third-and-six. Bengals start drive with an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Jessie Bates III’s interception when injured cornerback Vernon Hargreaves III runs on the field to celebrate. Start: Bengals 20. Duration: 1 play, minus-1
yard, 0:04. Result: Burrow takes a knee after Bengals get the ball with four seconds left in half.
THIRD QUARTER
Start: Bengals 25. Duration: 1 play, 75 yards, 0:12. Result: Burrow 75-yard touchdown pass to Higgins. Key play: Cornerback Jalen Ramsey falls just as the pass reaches Higgins.
Start: Rams 31. Duration: 8 plays, 11 yards, 4:23. Result: McPherson 38-yard field goal. Key plays: Burrow runs for four yards on fourth and one from the Rams’ 22. Aaron Donald sacks Burrow for loss of nine on third and three from the 11.
Start: Bengals 25. Duration: 3 plays, minus-3 yards, 1:30. Result: Punt on fourth and 13. Why the drive stalled: Jones sacks Burrow for a seven-yard loss, leaving Bengals in a third-and-13 situation.
Start: Bengals 16. Duration: 3 plays, 5 yards, 2:11. Result: Punt on fourth and five.
Why the drive stalled: A’Shawn Robinson and Von Miller sack Burrow on consecutive plays to put the ball at the Bengals’ four.
FOURTH QUARTER Start: Bengals 16. Duration: 5 plays, minus-2 yards, 2:36. Result: Punt on fourth and 29. Why the drive stalled: Miller sacks Burrow on third down and the quarterback grabs his right knee in pain. An unnecessary roughness penalty on Bengals lineman Isaiah Prince on the play moves the ball to the 14.
Start: Bengals 16. Duration: 7 plays, 24 yards, 3:45. Result: Punt on fourth and nine. Why the drive stalled: Tyler Boyd drops a potential first-down catch on third and nine from Bengals’ 40.
Start: Bengals 25. Duration: 5 plays, 26 yards, 0:46. Result: Turnover on downs. Why the drive stalled: After getting nine yards on a first-down play, Bengals get nothing on the next three plays, Donald forcing Burrow into an incomplete pass on fourth-and-one with 39 seconds left.