NFL: Cincinnati Bengals 3 Cleveland Browns 24 recap

A foundamental game for both team has been played on thursday night at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati in a wet night. Cleveland traveled to Cincy with a 1-17 record in last 18 divisonal road games and the Bengals came into that game with 13-1-0 in last 14 regular season's game at home.
The 1st possession of the game has been handle by the Bengals that they lost in a painful way with a Dalton's interception intended to Jermain Gresham and picked off by Trent Robinson who take the ball till the Cincy 18th yard line. Clevelan scored their 1st TD of the night after 5 straight runs with a Tate TD. Cleveland defense started so fast and forced the Bengals to punt the ball but punt returner Leonhard lost it tryin to do to much with the ball, Cincy hasn't been able to capitalize that mistake because Dalton's poor throwing decisions and execution force Nugent to kick a FG against a strong wind for the 1st and last 3 point of the game for the Bengals. West great start and the Browns have been so great to exchange it and play-action throws, and inability of Atkins and Thompson to stop Browns running game mixed with offense issues made this game too hard for the Bengals. The Browns took a consierable advantage bfore the end of the 1st half with a rushing TD by Crowell initiated by an Hill fumble recovered by Joe Haden.
In the 2nd half nothing changed and the Bengals didn't give any sign of life, Cleveland closed the game out with 2 interceptions by Buster Screen and a rushing TD by West,
The Bengals have been outplayed al night long by the Browns, Cleveland defense seemed to be a playoffs' one and the absence of RT Andre Smith and RB Geovany Bernard can't be enough to explain Dalton's awful game and  awful season too, Bengals defense nver forced Cleveland offense to obviously pass situations and this permettied Browns to score a TD with every RB and give Hoyer easy throws because Bengals defense had to look at run a way too much than they would do.
I think that Browns offense need to improve especialy on passing game because i don't think Hoyer is a playoffs QB and maybe Manziell should be a better option but the question is he good enough and ready to compete??? Only the time can answer that, meanwhile Cleveland still ride this dream called Playoffs! After this game Bengals can't be relaxed on thier future, Dalton is really bad in lot of aspects of the game and if the defense can't play great this problem looks even bigger, but i wouldn't count them out, they can still put up a good run to the playoffs when they'll be healty.