The Cincinnati Bengals aren’t asking for style points. None were given Sunday night.
The jokes about the Bengals never showing up in September aren’t all that funny anymore because it’s mid-October and they still seem stuck in the mud. At least they got an ugly win. The defense made enough plays to support an offense that got surprisingly little going, and they managed a 17-7 victory over the New York Giants.
If you want to be optimistic, it was a good sign for the Bengals that their struggling defense played by far its best game of the season and led a win. Assuming the offense plays much better than it did Sunday night, maybe that’s a sign the Bengals can still be a factor in the AFC playoff picture. They just haven’t looked like that team very often this season.
The Bengals got a touchdown run from Joe Burrow and not much else before running back Chase Brown iced the game with a 30-yard TD run with 1:58 remaining. Cincinnati, which was 1-4 coming into Week 6, is desperate for wins and Sunday night’s victory gets it back to 2-4 for the season. But anyone who watched knows the Bengals don’t seem any closer to getting out of their early-season slump.
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