NFL Week 12 Primer: Cincinnati Bengals (4-6) vs Cleveland Browns (0-10) stats and facts

The Bengals are sitting at 4-6, and they they will be hosting the winless Browns on Sunday. The Bengals’ victory over the Broncos last week — along with the rest of the AFC teams involved in the playoff hunt imploding — has given the Bengals’ season a second wind.

The Bengals pass protection did well in the victory against the Broncos, but it is clear that run blocking is still very much an issue. Joe Mixon was given 20 carries, but he could only get 49 yards. That included being stuffed at the goal line twice.

The Browns have issues everywhere on offense. Most of them stem from their rookie quarterback playing like a rookie. You couple that with him not really having any weapons, and you get a winless Browns team. Corey Coleman returned last week from injury to catch six passes for 80 yards, but it will be hard for him to carry the load of this passing attack by himself.

Four of the Bengals’ last six games are at home, so their shot at the playoffs is very real, but this team will have to show they can make some actual noise in the next few weeks in order to make it though.

Everything you need to know for when the Bengals take on the Browns:

Game: Cincinnati Bengals (4-6) vs Cleveland Browns (0-10)

Date/Time: Sunday, November 16th, 2017 1:00 p.m. EST

Location: Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio

Series Leader: Bengals lead all-time series 49-39

Streak: Bengals have won the past six games.

Coaches vs Opponent: Marvin Lewis (21-8), Hue Jackson (0-3)

TV Broadcast: CBS broadcast with Andrew Catalon (play-by-play) and James Lofton (analyst). The game will air in the Bengals home market on WKRC-TV (Channel 12) in Cincinnati, WHIO-TV (Channel 7) in Dayton and on WKYT-TV (Channel 27) in Lexington, Ky.

Radio Broadcast: Coverage on the Bengals Radio Network, led by Cincinnati flagship stations WLW-AM (700), WCKY-AM (ESPN 1530; all sports) and WEBN-FM (102.7). Broadcasters are Dan Hoard (play-by-play) and Dave Lapham (analyst).

Browns SB Nation: Dawgs By Nature

Weather: Mid 40’s; Clear [NFL Weather]

Odds: The Bengals opened as a eight-point favorite. [Vegas Insider]

Uniforms: Orange jersey with black pants; the Bengals are 5-0 in that combination since 2004.

Cincinnati Bengals

• Andy Dalton has seven passing touchdowns and no interceptions for a 103.3 passer rating in past four games. In the past five meetings with Cleveland, he has completed 99 of 132 (75 percent) of his passes with 13 touchdowns and no interceptions for a 136.2 passer rating. Dalton passed for 286 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions for a 146 passer rating in the last meeting against the Browns. He aims for his sixth game in row against Cleveland with over a 100 passer rating.
• Joe Mixon has rushed for a touchdown in two of the past three games. He ranks fifth among rookies with 577 yards from scrimmage.
• Giovani Bernard had a 61-yard touchdown catch in last meeting with the Browns. He aims for his fourth game in a row at home against Cleveland with over 85 yards from scrimmage. He is one of four running backs with over 200 catches (205) and eight receiving touchdowns since entering league in 2013.
• A.J. Green has 165 receiving yards (82.5 per game) with two touchdowns in his past two games. He had a touchdown in the last meeting with the Browns. In the past three against the Browns, he has 360 receiving yards (120 per game) with three touchdown catches. In the past six at home against the division, Green has 686 receiving yards (114.3 per game) with four touchdowns.
• Brandon LaFell had a touchdown catch in the last home game against the Browns.
• Tyler Kroft had a touchdown catch last week. He had two touchdowns in the last meeting with the Browns.
• Vontaze Burfict had 12 tackles, a sack and a forced fumble in Week 11. In the past four at home against the division, he has 40 tackles, three tackles for a loss and an interception.
• Carlos Dunlap had two sacks last week, his 15th career game with over 1.5 sacks. He has five sacks in the past six meetings with the Browns.
• Geno Atkins has 4.5 sacks in the past six games against the division.
• Nick Vigil had a career-high 11 tackles and a sack in the last meeting with Cleveland.
• Dre Kirkpatrick had a 101- yard interception return in Week 11, marking the longest interception return that did not go for a touchdown.

Cleveland Browns

• DeShone Kizer aims for his third in a row with a passing touchdown. He has four rushing touchdowns, which is tied for second among quarterbacks. Aims for 3rd in row on road with rush TD.
• Isaiah Crowell has a rushing touchdown in two of the past three at Cincinnati. In the past five on the road, he has 427 yards from scrimmage (85.4 per game) with a rushing touchdown.
• Duke Johnson Jr. had a touchdown catch in Week 11. He had a rushing touchdown in the last meeting against the Bengals. He leads all NFL running backs with 1,462 receiving yards and ranks second with 160 catches since entering league in 2015. He is one of five players with over 400 receiving yards (414) and 200 rushing yards (240) in 2017.
• Corey Coleman led the team with a career-high six catches for 80 receiving yards last week.
• Seth DeValve has a touchdown in two of the past three games on the road against the division.
• Rookie David Njoku has a touchdown catch in two of the past four on the road. He is tied for fourth among rookies with three receiving touchdowns.
• Kenny Britt aims for his third in a row on the road with a touchdown. He has six touchdowns in his past eight games on the road.
• Christian Kirksey has 55 tackles (11 per game), two sacks and two forced fumbles in the past five games. He is one of two in the NFL (DeMario Davis) with over 80 tackles (87) and three sacks. Kirksey (87) and Hoe Schobert (86) rank first and second in the AFC in tackles. Schobert has over 10 tackles in four of the past five games. He had 11 tackles in last meeting.
• Rookie Myles Garrett had a fumble recovery last week. He has four sacks in his past five games.
• James Burgess had 16 tackles, three tackles for a loss and a sack last week.
• Rookie Caleb Brantley had a sack in the last meeting between the Bengals and Browns.
• Jamar Taylor had his first career forced fumble in Week 11.