Tom Brady’s consecutive streak of 52 games with a touchdown pass ended Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium before 64,259 when cornerback Adam Jones picked him off at the Bengals 3 with 16 seconds left to preserve a 13-6 victory over the Patriots. After Brady and the Pats were held to a field goal when he […]
Browns Upend Bengals 17-6
September 30, 2013 by
On the strength of the defense shutting down wide receiver A.J. Green and quarterback Brian Hoyer throwing for a pair of touchdowns, the Cleveland Browns earned a 17-6 victory over their in-state rivals, the Cincinnati Bengals, at FirstEnergy Stadium Sunday. Hoyer tossed a one-yard touchdown pass to running back Chris Ogbonnaya that extended the Browns’ […]
Bengals Beat Packers 34-30
September 23, 2013 by
It was the only way it could end, right? Bengals defensive end Michael Johnson, all 6-7 of him, deflected Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers’s fourth-and-five pass from the Bengals 20 with 1:25 left to seal a wild 34-30 victory before an amazed and crazed sellout crowd of 64,633. On the previous play his bookend, left end […]
Bengals Down Steelers 20-10
September 17, 2013 by
Something old and something new paved the way for the Bengals to walk down the aisle to their first victory of the season Monday night at Paul Brown Stadium, when rookie running back Giovani Bernard injected life into a flagging offense and safety Reggie Nelson channeled last December in Pittsburgh when he picked off quarterback […]
Bears Beat Bengals 24-21
September 9, 2013 by
Despite heading into the fourth quarter with a 137-yard edge in offense and nearly seven minutes in time of possession, the Bengals let a should-have-could-have opener slip through their hands in a 24-21 defeat to the Bears at Soldier Field. The game was summed up when middle linebacker Rey Maualuga was called for a personal […]
Bengals Lose Wild Card Game 19-13
January 6, 2013 by
The Bengals closed the regular season with a 7-1 finish that featured their best players playing the best when they needed them most, but in Saturday’s AFC Wild Card game at Reliant Stadium they couldn’t summon the synergy that produced their third playoff appearance in four years. Instead, head coach Marvin Lewis’s playoff record dropped […]
Bengals Beat Ravens 23-17, Head to Playoffs
December 31, 2012 by
It all made perfect sense for the Bengals to ride their defense into next week’s playoff game as coordinator Mike Zimmer’s sixth-ranked unit pitched another masterpiece against a host of backups in a 23-17 victory over the Ravens at sold-out Paul Brown Stadium that capped Cincinnati’s 7-1 run in the second half of the season. […]
Bengals Defense Sends them to Playoffs
December 24, 2012 by
With a playoff berth on the line Sunday at sun-splashed Heinz Field, the Bengals got the brilliant defensive effort they needed with two hellacious red-zone stands in the third quarter that kept the game tied at 10 and fittingly it was a 21-yard bullet from Andy Dalton to wide receiver A.J. Green that set up […]
Bengals Defense Holds Off Eagles in 34-13 Win
December 14, 2012 by
With their offensive line overwhelmed with six Eagles sacks in the first three quarters and quarterback Andy Dalton suffering through one of his worst games as a pro Thursday night, the Bengals defense and special teams rescued Cincinnati from the abyss of postseason disaster with four turnovers in a span of seven minutes that gave […]
Bengals Drop Lead, Lose to Cowboys 20-19
December 10, 2012 by
With the Paul Brown Stadium faithful of 63,590 cheering the Chargers rout of the Steelers on Sunday, the Bengals tried to leap ahead of their arch-rival for the second wild card spot but couldn’t finish off the Cowboys in the red zone or in the second half and blew a nine-point lead in the last […]
