It’s Four by Land and One by Sehorn

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. —  Maybe the NFC East-leading New York Giants are that good.

On an afternoon when they played one of their worst games of the season, the Giants still found a way to defeat the Cincinnati Bengals.

Tyrone Wheatley and Charles Way each scored two touchdowns on short runs and Jason Sehorn intercepted a two-point conversion pass with 1:30 left as the Giants rallied from an 11-point halftime deficit for a 29-27 victory Sunday.

The victory was the fifth in a row for the Giants (6-3) and it sent the Bengals (1-7) to their seventh consecutive loss. Coupled with losses by Dallas and Washington, New York enters its open date with a 1 1/2-game lead.

The Giants have made the playoffs once since winning their second Super Bowl on Jan. 27, 1991.

“The bottom line is we are finding ways to win this year instead of ways to lose,” Sehorn said. “Unfortunately for teams like Arizona and Cincinnati when it comes down to the very end, they are not making the plays. When it came down to the end for us we made the plays, and that’s the sign of a good football team.”

That was up for debate at halftime after the Bengals used a team-record 102-yard kickoff return by Eric Bieniemy and a 39-yard touchdown pass play from Jeff Blake to David Dunn six seconds before halftime to take a 21-10 lead.

“I thought we had them,” Bengal safety Sam Shade said. “But it seems nothing is going our way. I don’t know what it is or what we need to do.”