The Lions and Bengals battled in a meaningless pre-season game with the Bengals winning by the score of 16 – 14. The Lions played a handful of starters while the Bengals had theirs in for two series on both offense and defense. The game was pretty evenly played from a stats perspective, with the fumble that Bengals punched in for a TD in Lions end of the field being the main difference. Overall, it was just a sloppy game for both teams as expected, but entertaining, nonethel