From press box at Paul Brown Stadium for Browns-Bengals:
Bengals win 34-17.
Browns lead 34-17 with 58 seconds left in the game.
- Palmer is picked again with Leigh Bodden returning the theft 35 yards. That sets up a two-yard TD run by Frye. Too little too late. But more evidence that while Cincinnati will enjoy a lopsided win, the Bengals were not at their best.
- Browns give up the ball on downs with 3:36 left. Bengals will go to 2-0. Browns now 0-2.
Bengals lead 34-10 with 7:08 left in the game.
- Landon Johnson’s interception of a Frye bounce pass — it bounced off of Droughns — sets up another Cincinnati score. Four plays and 26 yards later, Rudi Johnson runs it into the end zone from nine yards out the Bengals lead is 34-10. Blowout of Ohio.
Bengals lead 27-10 with 9:50 left in the game.
- Cincinnati answers with a seven-play, 80-yard drive to push the lead to 27-10. Rudi Johnson scored from a yard out. He now has 21 carries for 118 yards. Key play was an 18-yard pass from Palmer to Kelley Washington on a 3rd-and-six from the 44. Cleveland’s Ralph Brown missed a tackle and off Washington went.
Bengals lead 20-10 with 13:06 left in the game.
- After a day of no offense at all, Cleveland hits the big strike. A Frye bomb to Braylon Edwards nets 75 yards to the Cincinnati 1. Two snaps later, Reuben Droughns scores the visitor’s first touchdown on the day. So the Bengal lead is down to 10. And Cleveland has a bit of momentum.
Bengals lead 20-3 with 14:11 left in the game.
- Forced to settle for a 37-yard field goal from Graham. Blitz for a sack by Browns’ Brodney Pool disrupted the drive. Bengals have allowed four sacks, a byproduct of the changes on the offensive line. No Levi Jones. No Rich Braham.
Bengals lead 17-3 at end of third quarter.
- On final play of the quarter, Palmer finds Chris Henry for a 38-yard gain to the Cleveland 12. Palmer is now over 300 yards passing for the game. Henry is over 100 yards receiving. A Cincinnati score would surely clinch the win, given Cleveland’s ineptness on offense.
- With 6:13 left in third quarter, Bengals still lead 17-3. Browns did put together a nice drive on last possession, but Brian Simmons came through on a blitz to knock ball loose from Charlie Frye and Bengals’ John Thornton recovered at Cincinnati 44. But the Cincinnati offense has generated little this quarter.
- Just announced that David Pollack has been moved to University Hospital for further evaluation. Dexter Jackson and Rich Brahm are both out for the second half.
