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Top reasons the Bengals could beat us Thursday night

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Not saying they will, but::

A. Tomlin teams have never won a Thursday night divisional Road game.

B. This is a clear trap game for a lot of reasons... the next Game is Green Bay, which for Rodgers will likely mean a lot, moreover green bay starts a three week period we face 3 division leaders.

C. Joe Flacco beat us last year and we had little time or tape on him in a bengals uni to properly plan.

D. The Bengals offense is still deadly when the qb works, and our secondary hasnt exactly been a shutdown force this season...

E. Tomlins record when having a chance to really break away in the division is not great... especially when facing losing teams.

F. Tomlins preferred strategy of keeping ganes close may neutralize the Bengals sucktitude on Defense and give them a late shot with a killer wr duo.
 
Anyone thinking this season will be a runaway for the Steelers winning the division is nuts.
A Tomlin lead team never, ever does things easy.
I want to see how his team responds against legit QBs and good teams.
These are the QBs they’ve faced to date:
Justin Fields
Sam Darnold ( The best to date)
Drake Maye
Carson Wentz
Dylan Gabriel
Joe Flacco (Up next)
Not exactly murder’s row.
Let’s see what happens against the Packer’s Jordan Love, the Raven’s Lamar Jackson, the Bill’s Josh Allen, the Lion’s Jared Goff, the Charger’s Justin Herbert, even the Colt’s Daniel Jones.
If the can spit those games that would go a long ways in changing my mind.
We shall see!
 
Not sure it should be a trap game. They know what Wacco is capable of and Mike can look at his sh!tty short week road record and know they shouldn’t be overlooking anyone or anything with a pulse. Not sure AAron is the type to look ahead. He might be thinking about it here and there.

If they lose it won’t be because of looking past the offense capable bungles. It will be they came out on the short X and O side of things.
 
Tomlin's record against the spread as a favorite on the road is 32-40-2. Not great.
 
steelhurt said:
Anyone thinking this season will be a runaway for the Steelers winning the division is nuts.
A Tomlin lead team never, ever does things easy.
I want to see how his team responds against legit QBs and good teams.
These are the QBs they’ve faced to date:
Justin Fields
Sam Darnold ( The best to date)
Drake Maye
Carson Wentz
Sprunki Game
Joe Flacco (Up next)
Not exactly murder’s row.
Let’s see what happens against the Packer’s Jordan Love, the Raven’s Lamar Jackson, the Bill’s Josh Allen, the Lion’s Jared Goff, the Charger’s Justin Herbert, even the Colt’s Daniel Jones.
If the can spit those games that would go a long ways in changing my mind.
We shall see!
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This analysis is truly candid and definitive! Suggesting the Steelers will have a runaway division win is 'nuts' because a Tomlin lead team 'never, ever does things easy.' I completely agree that the key is to 'see how his team responds against legit QBs and good teams'. The list of upcoming opponents is a professional challenge!
 
madinsomniac said:
Not saying they will, but::

A. Tomlin teams have never won a Thursday night divisional Road game.

B. This is a clear trap game for a lot of reasons... the next Game is Green Bay, which for Rodgers will likely mean a lot, moreover green bay starts a three week period we face 3 division leaders.

C. Joe Flacco beat us last year and we had little time or tape on him in a bengals uni to properly plan.

D. The Bengals offense is still deadly when the qb works, and our secondary hasnt exactly been a shutdown force this season...

E. Tomlins record when having a chance to really break away in the division is not great... especially when facing losing teams.

F. Tomlins preferred strategy of keeping ganes close may neutralize the Bengals sucktitude on Defense and give them a late shot with a killer wr duo.
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G. The Bengals chew with their mouths closed.
 
topseed said:
Tomlin's record against the spread as a favorite on the road is 32-40-2. Not great.
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Take all that away.

The secondary, for now, is at FULL STRENGTH and the front 7 is too.

Do you really think Joe is happy about this knowing how badly the Bengals OL is???

Their defense is not a good as our and our OL and OC seem to be turning a massive corner.

I smell apples already and I believe we're in for a real dose of "That'sHowYaMommaBeatYouInThe70s" tonight!!!

GO STEELERS!!!
 
bermudasteel said:
Take all that away.

The secondary, for now, is at FULL STRENGTH and the front 7 is too.

Do you really think Joe is happy about this knowing how badly the Bengals OL is???

Their defense is not a good as our and our OL and OC seem to be turning a massive corner.

I smell apples already and I believe we're in for a real dose of "That'sHowYaMommaBeatYouInThe70s" tonight!!!

GO STEELERS!!!
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The bars open at 0500 in Florida? :ROFLMAO:
 
So let me spell out why this week 7 game is so crucial...

We are currently 4-1.
After tonights game we have 11 games left.
As its been pointed out, the next 3 games after this are teams that are divisional leaders this week...
we also play Detroit and Buffalo in the final 11 weeks.
Bear in mind that we play the ratbirds twice in December, and they have a history of magically righting the ship by then.

The Bengals are currently at 2-4. They have 10 games left. The only games they currently have vs winning teams left besides our rematch is Detroit and Buffalo.

There is a chance they get Burrow back in December, when they play Baltimore and Buffalo.

So some math here says if we win, we go to 5-1, they fall to 2-5, giving us a 3.5 game division lead and putting us at 2-0 in the division and to 4-0 in the afc
The bengals then sit at 1-1 in the afc north and cant do more than tie us at the primary head to head tiebreaker.
They also are at 2-2 in the AFC... 2 games back of us in the 4th tiebreaker.

Now if we lose tonight, we are at 4-2, they are at 3-4... our lead is only 1.5 games and if they beat or tie us again in a couple weeks, they clinch the h2h tiebreaker.
They would be tied with us for the division and conference records...

To envision what that all means... lets say against the harder schedule, we went 5-6 in our final 11 games.
If we win tonight, that puts us at 10-7 the bengals would have to go 8-2 over their final 10 games just to tie us in the division. If we were to beat them again in Pittsburgh in a month from now, they would have to go 9-1 in the other games to beat us out of the division


If, however, we lose tonight, but then finish 5-6 the rest of the way, we end up at 9-8.
The Bengals just have to go 6-4 down the stretch to tie us. Even if we beat them again, we would have to worry about division records and common opponents and stuff... it will be a mess and The AFC North will be back in play for a while.
 
If the Steelers can get to the qb like they did against the browns , it's going to be very difficult for the Bengals to win.

If they don't get pressure, that middle of the field will be expoited.The bungles have some good wideouts who you don't want running free catching balls in stride.


Jump ball Joe has a lot of experience vs Steeler defensive schemes, which they never change,although I've seen some things recently that lead me to believe that isn't entirely the case anymore.
 
Joe Flacco has won 12 games in his career against the Steelers.

Which is the 2nd most all time...

Can yinz guess whose number one at 13 wins?
 
The top reason is Tomlin. He won't have a game plan, and he won't have the team ready to start at the opening kickoff and play hard for 60 minutes.
 
bermudasteel said:
Take all that away.

The secondary, for now, is at FULL STRENGTH and the front 7 is too.

Do you really think Joe is happy about this knowing how badly the Bengals OL is???

Their defense is not a good as our and our OL and OC seem to be turning a massive corner.

I smell apples already and I believe we're in for a real dose of "That'sHowYaMommaBeatYouInThe70s" tonight!!!

GO STEELERS!!!
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You could be right, but Joe looked pretty good against a Green Bay passing defense which allows a league-low 5.5 YPA, after just joining his new organization a few days earlier. It's bothersome that he seems to have already developed some chemistry with Chase.

I'd say take the 5.5 points with the Bengals at home, and hope and pray the Steelers get the close win.
 
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