![]() ![]() After a choppy and strange first quarter, the Browns seized the advantage and left no doubt. The issue is whether they actually can do that and if the improvement shown in the last few games really was just fool’s gold against two of the worst pass rushes in the league in the Falcons and Saints. We have to go back to work and do a better job at that.” We have to protect the quarterback, give him time to go through his reads and keep him upright. “That’s what we get paid to do,” right tackle La’el Collins said after the game. Every play thereafter, it looked like they still did as the receivers struggled to get open for anything more than check downs, and the offensive line repeatedly failed to keep pressure off Burrow. The Browns were penalized for having 12 men on the field on the first play of the game. That stretch included three sacks - one of which resulted in blitzing Browns linebacker Sione Takitaki stripping Burrow of the ball for the second turnover of the half - a bunch of check downs and zero interest in running the ball against a Cleveland defense that struggles to stop it. Green intercepted it at the Cleveland 16-yard line, the next six Bengals drives produced a total of 41 yards and four first downs. ![]() “There are no excuses for that.”Īfter gaining 54 yards on their opening possession, which ended after Garrett tipped a pass intended for Tee Higgins and Browns cornerback A.J. “We are a better offense than what we put out there tonight, even without (Chase),” Burrow said. It was the fifth and final sack in a game where the biggest question surrounding the Bengals went from “How will they make up for the absence of Ja’Marr Chase?” to “Will they even score a freakin’ point?” as an injury-depleted Browns defense blanked them through three quarters en route to a 32-13 rout at FirstEnergy Stadium. It came with 5:29 left in the game when Browns defensive end Myles Garrett and defensive tackle Taven Bryant cruised past the offensive linemen tasked with blocking them and finished in a dead heat at the finish line that was Joe Burrow.Ī masterful escape artist through his first three seasons, Burrow has found his way out of pricklier pockets, including a couple of incidents earlier Monday night.īut on this play, the 48th of what would be 50 mostly ineffectual ones, Burrow had but one option - turtle up and surrender. On a bad night full of bad plays for the Bengals, there was one in particular that epitomized the futility and failures of the evening. ![]()
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