Bengals...38 Jets...31

CINCINNATI -- Don’t blame Chad Pennington solely for this one. He had a lot of help.

Kenny Watson ran for 130 yards and three touchdowns in the best performance of his career, and the Cincinnati Bengals turned the New York Jets’ meltdown into a 38-31 win.

The Bengals (2-4) snapped a four-game losing streak that was their longest during Coach Marvin Lewis’ five seasons. Watson led the way, playing like a star instead of Rudi Johnson’s fill-in.

The seventh-year runner with a half-dozen career starts scored on runs of one and two yards in the second half.

Pennington, the main target of fans’ wrath, couldn’t make a meaningful big play in a horrid second half. He threw his third touchdown pass on the final play of the game, little consolation to the Jets (1-6), off to their worst start in eight years.

Quoteworthy: “All of us stink, not just one guy.” -- Laveranues Coles, Jets receiver, on Chad Pennington