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Top reasons the Bengals could beat us Thursday night

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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And since Magic Mike doesn’t make adjustments, inspire the team, or have a plan in general, we don’t have to wait until 11 tonight to know that this one will be filed in the L column. Real talk.
 
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. String.

DIC forgets to wear his double g-strings and jinx us
 
topseed said:
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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Never!!!

Steelers win by at least 12 points🫠🤯🤣🎉🎊
 
This is a different Tomlin team. More and more, I am starting to see Aaron Rodger's fingerprints on the offense and Jalen Ramsey on the defense. They take care of business tonight it could be the case. With Ramsey, Echols, Slay and JPJ, they should keep Chase and Higgins at bay and help out the pass rush against Bert. Rodgers is 13-6 on Thursday night and he doesn't slack off.
 
Shane Falco said:
This is a different Tomlin team. More and more, I am starting to see Aaron Rodger's fingerprints on the offense and Jalen Ramsey on the defense. They take care of business tonight it could be the case. With Ramsey, Echols, Slay and JPJ, they should keep Chase and Higgins at bay and help out the pass rush against Bert. Rodgers is 13-6 on Thursday night and he doesn't slack off.
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You, good sir, shall receive good tidings and a bottle of Lobos 1707 on Berm!!!
 
Shane Falco said:
This is a different Tomlin team. More and more, I am starting to see Aaron Rodger's fingerprints on the offense and Jalen Ramsey on the defense. They take care of business tonight it could be the case. With Ramsey, Echols, Slay and JPJ, they should keep Chase and Higgins at bay and help out the pass rush against Bert. Rodgers is 13-6 on Thursday night and he doesn't slack off.
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Time will tell Shane Falco...

And the clock starts with tonites critical AFC north matchup...
 
This game definitely makes me nervous. Flacco comes in off the street and almost led them to win last week. He and Chase developed chemistry pretty quick and they looked good in the second half. Flacco is .500 (11-11) against us and he will know what to expect.
 
jitter77 said:
This game definitely makes me nervous. Flacco comes in off the street and almost led them to win last week. He and Chase developed chemistry pretty quick and they looked good in the second half. Flacco is .500 (11-11) against us and he will know what to expect.
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Yes agreed...

Flacco is 11-11 in regular season....12-13 including playoffs all time.

He has as many victories against the Steelers as Tom Brady and believe it or not, Steve McNair has 12 also?!

Which QB has 13 wins all-time?
 
steel dino said:
Yes agreed...

Flacco is 11-11 in regular season....12-13 including playoffs all time.

He has as many victories against the Steelers as Tom Brady and believe it or not, Steve McNair has 12 also?!

Which QB has 13 wins all-time?
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I know the answer. I googled it. Never would have guessed the answer. I won’t reveal it since I used google.
 
Hope they get to Flacco, no way JPJ can cover Chase or Higgins. I could see Steelers getting 5 sacks or Joe picking apart this secondary.
 
slashsteel said:
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.
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I agree. It's a division game on a night in which Tomlin has an awful record. Flacco also beat the Steelers last time they played. If they lose it's because of a combination of playing poorly and Cincinnati having a lot of talent at the skill positions. Remember, the Steelers are a few weeks removed from getting completely outplayed three straight weeks to start the season.
 
warriors42 said:
you ******* are a real Buzz kill. Flacco is a toad all he is gonna do is throw the ball as far as he can and hope for a PI.
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JPJ The Penalty Machine is back though.

 
madinsomniac said:
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.
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Yes we need this division game, but nothing is more important than bringing in a #2 receiver before the deadline.They need to do whatever they have to and bring someone in like Waddle or Olave. I'd rather have Waddle as Olave is on his 4th concussion I believe.

Rooney said this would happen months ago...yeah it hasn't. If they don't do this we will then clearly know they are not serious about winning it all. This is the year to pull out all the stops as the division is there for the taking. No one looks dominant in the AFC or NFC, but the style of football we are playing will come to a screeching halt against the better teams without more firepower/points. We do well enough and who knows Rodgers may sign up for one more.

Make it so Rooney/Khan/Tomlin!
 
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