In the end, despite a five-game winning streak to close the season, the Cincinnati Bengals’ furious rally to make the 2025 NFL playoffs fell just short. With the Denver Broncos’ blowout win over a backup-laden Kansas City Chiefs team, Denver secured the AFC’s No. 7 seed, leaving an MVP-caliber Joe Burrow on the outside looking in of the postseason.

There were a lot of tin-foil hat wearers in the NFL in Week 18. With the Cincinnati Bengals needing the Denver Broncos to lose to the Kansas City Chiefs, some NFL fans thought that the Chiefs deliberately tanked their Week 18 game to eliminate

The Bengals closed the campaign with five straight victories and could have featured the league's MVP winner for the regular season had they made the playoffs.

The Cincinnati Bengals' defensive woes throughout the 2024 season were a major factor in the team falling short of the playoffs, and it's caused an

Despite the Chiefs eliminating the Bengals by losing in Week 18, Travis Kelce wanted Cincinnati in the playoffs, he says.

Kansas City Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce vehemently denied that the Chiefs lost to the Broncos on purpose to keep the Bengals out of the playoffs.

Travis Kelce scoffed at the notion that the Chiefs rested their starters in order to keep the Bengals out of the playoffs.

Tight end Travis Kelce talked about Cincinnati fans saying the Chiefs threw the season finale to block the Bengals from the postseason.