The Bengals and Browns don’t usually meet for the first time in a season after Thanksgiving, but that is the hand they’ve been dealt with this year. Because of this, each team has a good read on what the other squad is now that the season is more than halfway over.
For Cleveland, fresh life has been injected into the team since the firing of both head coach Hue Jackson and Todd Haley and the offense seemed to resonate this in their last game against the Falcons two weeks ago.