The Cincinnati Bengals are off to a fast start and are tied with the Philadelphia Eagles

CINCINNATI – The Bengals and Eagles are tied 10-10 at halftime. Cincinnati hopes to improve to 4-4 this season. Here are our observations at halftime:

Quick start

The Eagles won the coin toss and pulled away, paving the way for the Bengals to have their longest drive of the season.

Joe Burrow led Cincinnati on a 17-play, 70-yard drive that ended with a two-yard touchdown pass to Ja'Marr Chase.

The Bengals had six first downs on the drive and made the score 5-5 on third down. Burrow completed 11 of 12 passes for 60 yards. Ja'Marr Chase, Mike Gesicki, Zack Moss and Chase Brown caught passes on the drive.

Watch the touchdown here.

Burrow and the Bengals also scored on their second possession of the game. Their third down conversions continued. Burrow scored on a spectacular play that extended the drive, a 24-yard gain from Gesicki on 3rd-and-22. Gesicki also made an excellent one-handed catch to keep the drive alive a few plays later.

It finally ended with a 27-yard field goal by Evan McPherson after Darius Slay knocked the ball away from Jermaine Burton in the end zone.

Burrow completed 16 of 24 passes for 169 yards and a touchdown in the first half.

McPherson misses

McPherson missed a 54-yard field goal attempt with 5:08 left in the second quarter. He has made 11 of 15 field goal attempts this season, but has missed two of his last three and three of his last five attempts.

The Bengals will win if…

The Bengals need to continue to move the ball on offense. They ran the ball well in the first half, but had to settle for a field goal on their second possession and finished the game with just 10 points.

The defense played pretty well and kept the Eagles under control for most of the first half. Philadelphia receives the opening kick of the second half. They didn't force a turnover in the first half. That has to change if they want to win on Sunday.

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