How to watch this week’s game and who our staff is picking this weekend.
The Cincinnati Bengals are fighting to keep hope alive for this season. Unfortunately, they will be going into Cleveland to take on the Browns, a place Joe Burrow has not won in yet.
The Bengals are coming off an “ugly” win on Sunday Night Football, according to quarterback Joe Burrow. The New York Giants defensive line completely controlled the line of scrimmage, and the Browns defensive line is at least on par, if not better. Hopefully, the o-line has watched the film and will have some answers, because Cleveland really is probably just going to do what New York did.
Cincinnati’s defense had some timely turnovers and faced a kicker who was dealing with a completely new holder. Even with that, they struggled to get Daniel Jones off the field.
Luckily, Deshaun Watson may be struggling the most of any NFL quarterback, and they just traded away Amari Cooper to the Buffalo Bills. They are getting running back Nick Chubb back, and stopping him should be priority No. 1.
Here is how to watch the Bengals take the trip up to Cleveland:
Cincinnati Bengals (2-4) at Cleveland Browns (1-5)
- Date/Time: Oct. 20th, 2024 at 1:00 pm ET
- Location: Huntington Bank Field in Cleveland, OH
- Regular Season Series Leader: The Bengals lead 53-48 in the series, but the Browns have won six of the past eight meetings, and nine of the last 12. Home field has been a factor over the series, as the Bengals lead 33-18 at home, but trail 20-30 as the road club.
- TV Channel: The game will air on CBS. In the Bengals’ home region, it will be carried by WKRC-TV (Ch. 12) in Cincinnati, WHIO-TV (Ch. 7) in Dayton and WKYT-TV (Ch. 27) in Lexington
- Broadcasters: Spero Dedes (play-by-play), Adam Archuleta (analyst), and Aditi Kinkhabwala (sideline reporter).
- Online Stream in-market: Paramount+ (in-market), NFL+ (mobile only)
- Online Stream out-of-market: NFL Sunday Ticket
- Replay: NFL+
- Radio Broadcast: The game will air on the Bengals Radio Network, which is led by Cincinnati flagship stations WLW-AM (700), WCKY-AM (1530) and WEBN-FM (102.7). Broadcasters are Dan Hoard (play-by-play) and Dave Lapham (analyst)
- SB Nation Browns’ site: Dawgs by Nature
- Rosters: CIN | CLE
- Stats to Know: CIN | CLE
- Weather: According to NFL Weather, it will be clear in the high 60s with a 0% chance of precipitation.
- Odds: The Bengals are currently 5.5-point favorites, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.
Expert Predictions
- All 11 of ESPN’s experts are taking the Bengals
- All four of USA Today’s pickers are going with Cincinnati.
- Sporting News’ five pickers all went with the Bengals.
- NFL Pick Watch — which takes into account expert picks from across the web — has Cincinnati receiving 94% of the picks.
Our staff’s picks for NFL Week 7
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