Joe Burrow lit the Baltimore Ravens on fire last week with this outrageous stat line: 30-for-39, 392 passing yards and five touchdown passes. It took a special teams overtime blunder — and one of Lamar Jackson’s plays of the year — for Baltimore to overcome Burrow and the Bengals’ stellar performance, and now the reliably slow-starting Bengals are closing in on the tough situation at 1-4 and in the basement of AFC North.
They 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 have to lean on that pass rush to get Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase and the De Bengals offense under control. 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 largely been by committee.
The Giants’ running game may also need to be addressed by committee this week, with leading running back Devin Singletary questionable due to a groin injury. With that injury, he missed the Giants’ 29-20 Week 5 win at Seattle.
