Browns ride Nick Chubb, defend impressive 41-16 win over Bengals – The Athletic

CINCINNATI – Original thoughts, notes and word reactions Browns 41-16 win over Bengals on Sunday …

• He can’t bring it every time he plays. Or even over 70 percent of plays. But good things happen to Brown when they put the cute things aside and just give the ball Nick Chubb.

In a must-win game on Sunday that takes place at the end a long and wild week, the Browns ended up tying some sales and forcing a steady dose of Chubb down a flat-legged guy’s throat Bengali the defense failed to do the job of taking down Chubb before he could roll. The Browns have done a lot of things very well – most of them are also very efficient – but the most important of them all is that the ball will go to Chubb in key positions of foul as the Browns run away.

• The Browns have 24 points after halftime. The Browns ran 15 times and Baker Mayfield completed seven of the eight passes he threw in the first half.

It’s a strange game; strangely beautiful for Browns fans and for those involved in an early game scenario that couldn’t be more beautiful for the Browns.

Denzel WardA 99-yard interception opened the scoring and was the first of several impressive plays Ward made on his return from an injury-related absence.