Nick Chubb rushed for 101 yards, and the Cleveland Browns defensive front was dominant in a 32-13 win over the Cincinnati Bengals in Monday night’s game.
Cleveland (3-5) thus gave a second wind to its season in an intra-division duel that it could not afford to let go.
Constantly bothered by the Browns’ quarterback rushers, Joe Burrow took five sacks for losses of 39 yards in the loss.
The star quarterback from Cincy (4-4) was limited to 237 passing yards, less than half of his staggering 481 in Week 7 against Atlanta.
After a scoreless first quarter, the Browns took the lead with 11 points in the second, then distanced themselves for good by scoring two touchdowns in the third.
It took until the second minute of the fourth quarter to see the Bengals register their first points.
Burrow then joined Tyler Boyd from 13 yards to make it 25-6, but Evan McPherson did little to restore hope for his club, missing the conversion by a point.
After Chubb’s second rushing touchdown of the game and his 10th of the season, Burrow spotted Tee Higgins in the end zone for the major, but it was too little, too late for the visitors, who fell to the bar. ,500.
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