A win! Hallelujah!

So the Browns finally put an actual number in the win column. I know that zero is technically a number, but you know what I mean. For the first time in eight games, including preseason, our team sucked less than the other team with whom they shared the field. Said other team, in this case the winless Cincinnati Bengals, were playing without their Pro Bowl quarterback, which clearly made a big difference in the Browns' 20-12 victory. But hey, a win's a win.

The Browns' defense played pretty well -- albeit, as previously mentioned, against a crippled Bengals O -- but our offense was pitiful until the fourth quarter. Derek Anderson, who was such a sensation last year, was 8-for-16 for just 72 yards going into the final frame, with a pick, which was pretty typical of his performance thus far this year. I'm sure I wasn't the only one thinking it was time to give Brady Quinn a shot. But as the Browns languished with a 6-3 deficit, D.A. finally turned it around. He went 7-for-8 in the last 15 minutes, for 66 yards and a touchdown, and led three scoring drives.

Jamal Lewis ran the ball 25 times, which worked pretty well until the last two plays of the first drive. Once the Bengals realized the Browns were just going to try to stuff it down their throats, they were able to hold the running game in check. Lewis only had 79 yards on those 25 carries, which is a 3.2 average per rush.

The star of the game? Ask me, it's DB Mike Adams, who got an interception and recovered a fumble.