EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ — The Cincinnati Bengals defense stepped it up on a night where the offense was held in a check in a 17-7 win over the New York Giants Sunday night at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
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Joe Burrow threw for 208 yards and ran for a touchdown. Chase Brown’s 30-yard score sealed the win with 1:52 remaining.
The Bengals defense held the Giants to seven points, the fewest allowed since 2019.
Trey Hendrickson had two sacks and Germaine Pratt intercepted a Daniel Jones pass.
Burrow opened the scoring with a 47-yard touchdown, the longest run of his career, to give Cincinnati a 7-0 lead.
It stayed that way until the third quarter when Tyrone Tracy’s one-yard run capped a 16-play, 79-yard drive to tie the game at 7-7.
Evan McPherson’s 37-yard-old field put the Bengals ahead for good, 10-7, with 41 seconds left in the third quarter.
After the two-minute warning, Brown ran up the middle 30 yards for a touchdown to extend the lead to 17-7. Greg Joseph missed a 47-yard field for the New York to seal their fate.
The Bengals improved to 2-4 overall.
Cincinnati will play Cleveland in the “Battle of Ohio,” on Oct. 20 at Huntington Bank Field in Cleveland.
Kickoff is at 1 p.m.
The game will be televised here on Channel 7 and broadcast on 1290 and 95-7, WHIO Radio.