Cincinnati Bengals Winners After Week 7 Win Over Cleveland Browns

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00:00the fastest way to get off to an early lead is to return the opening kickoff for a touchdown.

00:05Charlie Jones is our first winner of the week, and rightfully so. 100-yard kickoff return for

00:11a touchdown to start the game, gave the Bengals a 7-0 lead, gave them a little wiggle room,

00:16and on offense, it was a struggle. That first half offense was awful, and so when you're 0-6,

00:250-6 on third down in the first half, 0-1 on fourth down, just really struggling on offense.

00:30You need a spark somewhere, and they got it on the very first play of the game. Huge, huge play

00:34for Charlie Jones, huge play for Darren Simmons in the special teams unit, and there were two guys

00:40with key blocks, Drew Sample and Akeem Davis Gaither. Huge, huge blocks that opened up the

00:45lane for Charlie Jones to run downfield, and then for him to be able to stay in bounds,

00:51evade multiple defenders, potential tacklers, and walk the tightrope into the end zone.

00:57Just a huge, huge play. Charlie Jones is only the second Bengal to return a kickoff and a punt

01:05return for a touchdown. I'll say it again. The second Bengal in team history that has a kickoff

01:11return for a touchdown and a punt return for a touchdown. He's only in his second NFL season.

01:15Huge, huge for him to do that. Lamar Parrish was the other one. You would expect that from

01:20Lamar Parrish. Charlie Jones, well, he had that punt return for a touchdown last year against

01:25Baltimore, and in a division game again on the road this time. Huge, huge play. He's winner number

01:31one. Winner number two, well, it's more of an entire unit. This Bengals defense stepping up,

01:38playing it at such a high level the past couple of weeks, and certainly on Sunday against the

01:44Browns. I mean, they faced three quarterbacks. They didn't know that Dorian Thompson Robinson

01:48was even going to be the backup. That was a shock to everyone, including the Browns,

01:53who didn't tell DTR until Saturday that he was going to be the backup. That's when he found out.

01:59He was working with scout team all week, so that threw a wrench into things. It's not like you're

02:02preparing or watching any DTR. You're thinking Jameis Winston would be Dashaun Watson's backup,

02:11excuse me, and it wasn't, and so you face three quarterbacks. You get four sacks. You have 11

02:17quarterback hits. You have a bunch of pass breakups. You have two interceptions. This is

02:22the playmaking defense that I expected to see this season, where you have the savvy veterans like Mike

02:27Hilton, Gino Stone making plays on the back end. You have guys flying around like Logan Wilson and

02:34Jermaine Pratt. Sheldon Rankin's being disruptive up the middle. Trey Hendrickson doing what he

02:38does, and by the way, Sam Hubbard took a lot of flack early in the year. He's playing pretty well

02:42right now, so the Bengals' defense is winner number two, and winner number three is the

02:47Bengals' playmakers. I already mentioned some of them on defense, but it wasn't just defense.

02:51On offense, they desperately needed their offensive playmakers to step up, and they did,

02:57whether it was Jamar Chase and that back shoulder touchdown that gave the Bengals a little comfort,

03:02their first offensive points of the game, or Tee Higgins taking a slant 25 yards, breaking a tackle

03:09for a touchdown. Tee was big in this game. Jamar was big in this game. They had nine of Joe Burrow's

03:1415 completions, so huge, huge day for the Bengals' playmakers, and that includes Gino Stone, Sheldon

03:21Rankin's, Trey Hendrickson, a lot of the guys on defense that made big plays.