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Bengals quarterback Jake Browning is rolling with the punches as his time in meaningful football games comes to a close with Cincinnati for the foreseeable future.

Browning and Cincinnati crumbled under the Chiefs pass rush too many times in a 25-17 loss.

"I think it sucks to lose when you're still in the race," Browning said. "There's no real crazy insightful comment there, just it sucks to lose any time and especially when you needed that win to keep battling, but like I said, with the standard of the locker room, guys playing through injuries? I think the same thing applies."

Browning played admirably for parts of Sunday's game but Cincinnati could not overcome the Chiefs' offense finding its way after weeks of ineptitude.

"People are going to keep battling," Browning said. "And I felt a lot of support throughout the last couple of weeks, especially coming off of the poor performance with the Steelers game, and I don't feel like anybody was pointing fingers or anything."

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