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| Perkins 15 yd TD started the scoring |
New York opened the game with an 11 play drive that lasted 7 1/2 minutes and culminated in a 15 yard TD toss from Scott Brunner to Johnny Perkins. Cincy answered right back with a dive that lasted just as long, but had to settle for a 38 yard Jim Breech FG. The game then settled into trench warefare with neither team coming close to scoring for the next 2 1/2 quarters. Early in the fourth Kenny Anderson undershot a crossing route to Ike Curtis and was picked off by Greg Jackson who zig zagged for 29 yards before being tripped up at the Bengal 6. Three plays later Rob Carpenter busted through the middle from 2 yards out to make it 14-3. Cincy drove the ball down the Giant 5 but turned it over on downs, so NY ran out the clock to earn the victory. Giant QB Scott Brunner was only allowed to throw 9 times. He completed 5 of those for 86 yards including the TD strike to Perkins. Conversely Bengal QB Kenny Anderson, who had to play from behind all day, was 19 for 30. New York ran the ball 40 times for 123 yards. LT and George Martin had 4 sacks as the former spent much of the day disrupting Anderson's rhythm. The "Crunch Bunch" (Kelley/Carson/Van Pelt/Taylor combined for 24 tackles on the day.
Special thanks to Scot Ginsberg for being able to play during my lunch hour today. IMO, we both coached gr8 strategic games with me getting that lucky pick in the 4th that accounted for the difference in score.
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