CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Browns have an uncanny knack of making the Bengals and Andy Dalton look like the Patriots and Tom Brady.
That was the case before they traded for Jamie Collins or drafted Emmanuel Ogbah, both missing Sunday.
It was the case in September when the Browns were still reveling in that 4-0 preseason. Or what we now know as the glory days.
And not much changed Sunday when the Bengals rekindled a dying running game and Dalton took advantage of a depleted Browns defense in a 30-16 Cincinnati win, its seventh straight in the division "rivalry.