\n Key Moments<\/p>\n
\n Dorian Thompson-Robinson struggles in first start of the 2024 season<\/p>\n
After a slow first half, Thompson-Robinson had promising moments in the second half, but tossed two interceptions as the Browns never caught up to the Bengals’ halftime lead.<\/p>\n
Thompson-Robinson completed just three of his six passing attempts for 15 yards in the first half before heating up in the second half.<\/p>\n
After failing to score in the first half, Thompson-Robinson and the Browns offense came alive on their opening possession in the second half. Thompson-Robinson completed five of his six passing attempts for 57 yards as he led the Browns down the field. On third-and-4, Thompson-Robinson showed his speed, taking off for a 5-yard gain to keep the Browns’ drive alive. He later connected with TE David Njoku<\/a> on a screen pass that Njoku took for a 29-yard gain. Ford finished the job for the Browns, plowing his way through the Bengals defense for a 4-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n On the Browns’ following drive, it looked like Thompson-Robinson might lead his team to the end zone once more before the Browns stalled in the red zone. Thompson-Robinson brought the Browns within striking distance with a 14-yard scramble to the Bengals 22-yard line. Two plays later, he took off for an 11-yard touchdown run, which was negated due to a penalty on Akins. Instead of ending the drive with points, Thompson-Robinson’s pass to the end zone was intercepted as the Browns’ failed to take advantage of the 12-play, 56-yard drive.<\/p>\n On the next drive, Thompson-Robinson threw an interception on the following drive on a deep ball intended for Njoku.<\/p>\n Despite the interceptions, Thompson-Robinson showed his ability to scramble and create big plays. On the Browns’ second-to-last drive of the game, Thomspon-Robinson escaped the pocket on fourth-and-8 and ran towards the sideline, somehow completing a pass to Njoku to pick up a first down. However, Thompson-Robinson and the Browns were unable to take advantage of their final two possessions, turning the ball over on downs on each of their last two drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key Moments Dorian Thompson-Robinson struggles in first start of the 2024 season After a slow first half, Thompson-Robinson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[38581,228,227,256,2296,39483,198,7,6,38580],"class_list":{"0":"post-238865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-adpartnerpost_game_recap_articles","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-cleveland-browns-at-cincinnati-bengals-2024-reg-16","14":"tag-featured","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-post-game-recap"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114922224737560004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}