The Browns had been blown out by the Ravens only four days before hosting the Bengals.
Not that we thought the Bengals would beat the Browns 38-6, but it gave us hope that the Browns were the same pushovers that we are used to seeing.
That ended up not being the case. The Browns’ offense scored seemingly at will, and their defense made Joe Burrow play his heart out to keep it close.
Because Burrow was one of the few positives from the game on Thursday, we’ll focus mostly on him for this week’s What We Learned.