Joe Burrow lit the Baltimore Ravens up last week with this outrageous stat line: 30-for-39, 392 passing yards and five touchdown passes. It took an overtime special teams gaffe — and one of the plays of the year by Lamar Jackson — for Baltimore to overcome Burrow and the Bengals’ passing game’s amazing performance, and now the reliably slow-starting Bengals are nearing dire straits at 1-4 and in the AFC North basement.
They’ll head to New York this week to take on the 2-3 Giants, who have a league-best 22 sacks on defense, and they’ll need to lean on that pass rush to keep Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase and the Bengals’ offense in check. Defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence is second in the NFL with 6.0 of those sacks and 11 different Giants have gotten to the quarterback in the first five weeks of the season, so the pass rush has very much been by committee.
The Giants’ running game may also need to be by committee this week with lead running back Devin Singletary questionable with a groin injury. He missed the Giants’ 29-20 Week 5 win in Seattle with that injury.
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