Cleveland, OH
What a night for the Cleveland Browns as defense dominates, offense runs hard – Terry Pluto
CLEVELAND, Ohio – When the season opened, this was how the Browns wished to play.
Run the ball.
Play good protection.
Run the ball some extra. Use each Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt.
Play stress protection, drive some unhealthy throws and add a number of QB sacks. Make that 5 sacks, together with two by Myles Garrett. He additionally had three QB pressures.
Run the ball much more, work in a number of passes. Chew up the clock.
Keep aggressive, however sensible on protection. Don’t mess up the coverages.
Kick some subject objectives. Dominate the time of possession. Take management of the sport with the operating recreation.
And sure, play nice protection – the very best Cleveland followers have seen all season. They’d Bengals shut out for 3 quarters. Who may have imagined that?
Take bow, Joe Woods and the Cleveland protection.
Welcome to Monday Evening Soccer, the place the Browns stored their playoff hopes alive with a 32-13 victory over Cincinnati. Cleveland is now 3-5 total and 2-1 within the AFC North.
Oh, the Browns ran the ball 44 occasions for 172 yards. They threw it 23 occasions. Gotta love that ratio!
Cleveland Browns operating again Nick Chubb runs for a landing towards the Cincinnati Bengals within the second half of play. Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com
YES THIS TEAM HAS TALENT
What night time for the Browns! Begin with the truth that Cincinnati’s protection had not allowed a second-half TD all season.
The Browns scored … TWO … within the third quarter. The primary was by Jacoby Brissett – a 3-yard scramble.
Later within the third quarter, Brissett related with Amari Cooper on an outstanding 4-yard TD toss into the nook of the tip zone.
Let’s add one thing to the run-the-ball mantra for the night time: Throw the ball to Cooper, the most effective receivers to put on an orange helmet for the reason that crew returned in 1999. He had 5 catches for 131 yards.
Within the first half, the Browns scored a TD on a 3-yard run by Nick Chubb out of the wildcat formation. It was energy soccer, beginning with terrific and rugged play by the offensive line. They owned the Bengals protection a lot of the night time.
Chubb rushed for 101 yards on 23 carries. Hunt ran for 42 yards on 11 carries. Hunt additionally had 4 catches for 30 yards.
Sure, the Chubb/Hunt mixture was again. Browns followers liked it. Hunt proved he stays a viable weapon within the operating recreation because the NFL buying and selling deadline looms Tuesday.
Brissett performed a savvy recreation, discovering open receivers as he was 17 of twenty-two passing for 278 yards. He was in control of the offense.
Cleveland Browns defensive finish Myles Garrett reacts as he runs off the sphere after defeating the Cincinnati Bengals. He had two sacks and three QB pressures.Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com
HOW ABOUT THE DEFENSE?
What an evening for Woods and his protection, which completely annoyed Joe Burrow and the Bengals. They got here into the sport having scored 65 factors of their final two video games.
However on Halloween, guess who was clueless on cope with the orange helmets?
That very same Cincinnati crew which went to final season’s Tremendous Bowl. It’s additionally the identical Cincinnati crew that has misplaced its final 5 video games to the Browns – and might’t work out block Garrett or a lot of anybody else.
The Browns used Sione Takitaki (13 tackles) and veteran linebacker Deion Jones (6 tackles) to assist management the operating backs. The Bengals rushed for under 36 yards. They ran it a mere 10 occasions.
The Browns snapped a four-game dropping streak. Going into the bye week with this victory provides everybody in Berea an opportunity to take a deep breath and look extra rationally at the remainder of the season.
As for the Bengals, they’ve misplaced 7 of their final 8 video games to the Browns. Burrow is 0-4 vs. the Browns. And this was a recreation that might give one thing the Browns and their followers really want – hope.
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