Joe Burrow lit the Baltimore Ravens up last week with this outrageous stat line: 30-for-39, 392 passing yards and five touchdown passes. It took an overtime special teams gaffe — and one of the plays of the year by Lamar Jackson — for Baltimore to overcome Burrow and the Bengals' passing game's amazing performance, and now the reliably slow-starting Bengals are nearing dire straits at 1-4 and in the AFC North basement.
They'll 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 need to lean on that pass rush to keep Burrow, Ja'Marr Chase and the Bengals' offense in check.