The Cincinnati Bengals defense set a season high with four sacks while matching its season high with eight pass breakups to help lead the team to a 21-14 victory against the Cleveland Browns.
That same defense largely is responsible for the fact that the Bengals still have something to play for, carrying the team to back-to-back road wins while the offense looked sluggish and ineffective for long stretches.
Five of their next six possessions ended in punts, and the one that didn’t fizzled on a failed fourth-down conversion.Two of the Browns’ first three possessions were three-and-outs, and the fourth ended in a missed field goal. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow and the offense were able to find enough success to put together a pair of touchdown drives to take some of the pressure off the Cincinnati defense.
The coverage part of the Bengals defense equaled its season high in pass breakups with eight, which the unit also had in last week’sOne of the eight passes defended was defensive end Sam Hubbard’s first career interception on a Thompson-Robinson pass that went off the hands of Cleveland receiver Cedric Tillman in the third quarter.
Hubbard also had a sack to go along with his interception, and offseason acquisition Sheldon Rankins recorded his first sack with the Bengals.
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