From Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati for Bengals-Patriots:
- New England rips Cincinnati 38-13.
- New England has still not lost back-to-back games in 53 straight games.
- Palmer’s two lost fumbles in the fourth quarter set up 14 New England points. Palmer lost three fumbles last week at Pittsburgh.
- After scoring on a fourth-down, one-yard run, Corey Dillon fired the football into the stands.
- Pats’ Jarvis Green pulled a triple-header, sacking, stripping and recovering the fumble from Palmer at the Bengal 13-yard line. That was the first of two lost fumbles by Palmer in the quarter. The first set up Dillon’s TD and a 31-13 lead.
- Bengals did hold New England to a field goal early in the quarter and a 24-13 Patriots lead.
- Attendance of 66,035 is third largest in PBS history.
- Remember, Chris Henry was deactivated for today’s game.
- New England leads Cincinnati 21-13 at end of third quarter.
- And the Pats are at the Bengal 6-yard-line as the quarter ends.
- A New England score and a 15-point lead might be too much to overcome.
- Maroney has gone over 100 yards rushing for New England, and put a terrific face mask on Kaseviharn during a 41-yard run.
- Maroney had four carries for 74 yards in the third quarter.
- What a monster hit by Kevin Kaseviharn that separated Rache Caldwell from his helmet. Kaseviharn was flagged for unnecessary roughness, but the hit was not helmet-to-helmet but shoulder-to-helmet. Didn’t matter. Penalty stuck.
- One play after Kaseviharn hit, Bengals suddenly could not tackle. Maroney breaks three tackles, leaving battered Bengals strewn all over PBS, for a 25-yard TD and a 21-13 Patriots lead.
- Big play on 3rd-and-6 from Cincy 42, Palmer stands in the pocket and hits T.J. Whosyourmama for a 32-yard catch-and-run that sets up Rudi Johnson’s two-yard TD run.
- Adam Vinateri doesn’t live here anymore. Stephen Gostkowski pushed a 48-yard field goal attempt wide right on New England’s first possession of the second half.
- Announced at halftime that Chad Johnson has a bruised shoulder but will return for the second half.
- New England leads 14-6 at the end of the first half.
- Patriots scored two touchdowns in the quarter. Laurence Maroney scored on an 11-yard run. Brady hit a wide open Doug Gabriel for a 25-yard touchdown with 1:54 left in the half to stretch the Patriots lead to eight.
- In four possessions, Bengals gained 9, 6, 13 and 30 yards.
- Palmer was 12-of-23 for 128 yards in first half.
- Brady was 7-of-12 for 111 yards with one touchdown and one interception in the first half.
- Chad Johnson had to be helped to the lockerroom near the end of the half after making a catch, alas out of bounds. Chad appeared to have the wind knocked out of him, or he may have landed on his hip.
- Bengals seem a step slow. Either that or they have been confused by the New England defense, which turned in a stellar second quarter.
- Dillon had 25 yards on six carries in the first half.
- Rudi Johnson gained 41 yards on nine carries.
- Pats picked up a key first down on a trick play when, on 3rd-and-6 from own 44, Pats snapped the ball to Kevin Faulk, who handed off on a reverse to Chad Jackson for a 10-yard gain.
- Faulk’s 43-yard punt return set up New England’s second score.
- Bengals were 1-for-7 on third downs for the half.
- Cincinnati leads 6-0 at end of first quarter.
- Two Bengals possessions saw home team moving the ball, 58 yards on first drive and 47 on the second. Both were stopped inside the New England 30-yard line, accounting for the two Shayne Graham field goals. First was from 40 yards; second from 45.
- Corey Dillon, in his first regular season appearance back in Cincinnati, has been roundly booed on each carry.
- Chad Johnson made three catches in Cincinnati’s first five offensive plays.
- Carson Palmer was 8-of-13 for 92 yards in the first quarter.
- Tom Brady was 2-of-5 for 24 yards with a Tory James interception.
