2023 NFL season, Week 13: What We Learned from Bengals' win over Jaguars on Monday night

 

Jake Cooking turns into a legend.

The previous College of Washington champion was constrained right into it fourteen days prior when Joe Tunnel experienced a season-finishing wrist injury. Sautéing didn't look perfect, yet looked hopeful in a misfortune to Pittsburgh last week. On Monday night, Searing bloomed. He finished 32 of 37 passes for 354 yards and one score - - a 76-yard strike to Ja'Marr Pursue to give the Bengals a 21-14 lead right off the bat in the second from last quarter - - and proceeded as though he'd been a 10-year starter. Carmelizing worked Zac Taylor's offense astoundingly proficiently, abstaining from risk and following through on track passes to eight distinct recipients on the evening. He didn't excursion and fall into 354 passing yards. Sautéing procured all of his culminations, and the Bengals' surprise win - - Cooking's first as a starter since his days as an Imposing. In the event that anybody merits a game ball, it's the quarterback generally counted out preceding Monday night.

Panthers endure misfortune, maybe more. 

Jacksonville ended up in a startling canine battle Monday night, battling to stop the run and neglecting to disrupt Cooking. Rather than cruising to a success over a Tunnel less Bengals group, the Pumas needed to scratch and paw just to remain in the game. In the midst of this fight, the most terrible occurred: Trevor Lawrence left with a lower leg injury that was serious enough for the star quarterback to expect help to gradually advance toward the storage space. C.J. Beathard played all around ok to move the Pumas into field objective reach, yet when Lawrence went down, the air was drained out of EverBank Arena. Presently, as they process the sting of an ideal time misfortune, Jags fans will be compelled to stand by to perceive how serious Lawrence's lower leg sprain is, and whether they'll be dropped into a bad dream of completing the season without their establishment quarterback.

Zac Taylor plans up a show-stopper.

Taylor entered Week 13 realizing he wouldn't have the option to request that Searing jog onto the field and transform into Tunnel, and he trained like it. Taylor worked really hard of conspiring to his quarterback's assets, stressing the run ahead of schedule to relax Jacksonville's pass rush and purchase Carmelizing time to work. Furthermore, as the run was working, the play-activity pass turned into a suitable way to progress, accommodating Cooking's abilities impeccably. Taylor much of the time called for Sautéing to carry out of run fakes and find open targets streaming to one side, opening up a Bengals offense that generally expected to walk as the night progressed. This equilibrium helped assemble Sautéing's certainty and permit him to get comfortable, offering the Bengals chances to focus on their cast of gifted beneficiaries downfield while blending in some rebuffing Joe Mixon conveys. While Carmelizing dropped to pass and flung a strike to Pursue right off the bat in the second from last quarter for a score, maybe Taylor embedded a skeleton key into a lock, turned it and uncovered the full capacity of his offense. Jacksonville had to wildly look for replies, and in any event, when the Panthers made Taylor pay for getting excessively charming with his play-calling by blocking a pass tossed by Tyler Boyd, the Bengals didn't overlap. Assuming anybody needs verification of Taylor's instructing skill, Monday night's tape will end the contention.

Jacksonville opens entryway for AFC South mayhem.

The Pumas had a great chance to keep up with their lead in the shockingly serious division by bringing down a Bengals group playing without its establishment quarterback Monday night. All things considered, they left open a way for the Texans and Yearlings to reinsert themselves into the race for the AFC South crown. With their Week 13 misfortune, Jacksonville watched its lead in the division psychologist to one game with five games left to play. Unexpectedly, the AFC South is an intriguing division including a gathering of sketchy groups that could deliver various outcomes, particularly on the off chance that Lawrence is out for a drawn out period. Bounty is passed on to figure out, however Jacksonville could wind up deploring this misfortune toward the season's end.

Cincinnati's fantasies of a flood to the postseason successfully dissipated when Tunnel experienced his season-finishing injury and the Ravens took off with a two-score win fourteen days prior. Bengals fans didn't have significantly more motivation to accept they could possibly rescue the 2023 mission when they lost to the Steelers at home a week ago. Yet, Searing's heavenly night has out of nowhere given them motivation to accept they can contend in each leftover game, and perhaps slip into an AFC race that is unexpectedly close in the special case standings. There's no assurance Sautéing repeats this sort of exhibition consistently, yet every one of the Bengals required was evidence he could do it once. Presently, they'll enter Week 14 overflowing with certainty, which could be a hazardous reality for whoever runs into them - - including an individual trump card competitor in Indianapolis one week from now.

Cutting edge detail of the game: 

Jake Cooking finished all of his seven disregard endeavors 10 air yards on Monday night (7 of 7 for 170 yards and one score), the most downfield consummations without an inadequacy over the last two seasons.

NFL Exploration: Jake Sautéing turned into the tenth player in the Super Bowl time to toss for 350 or more yards and a fulfillment level of no less than 85% in a customary season game.