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Alright Steeler Nation!
Week 13 finds our beloved Steelers 9-2 and atop the AFCN by 3 games over the 6-5 Ravens. We now embark on the last 5 games of the regular season.
The orange and black clad Bengals are back on the docket again. This time the venue changes to Paul Brown stadium in the Queen City of Cincinnati. My best effort to cut and paste complements of pro-football reference.
Team Ranks
PIT CIN
Home Record 4-1-0 3-2-0
Away Record 5-1-0 2-4-0
Record vs. Spread 6-5-0 6-5-0
Points Scored 258 (12th) 199 (25th)
Points Allowed 193 (4th) 215 (10th)
Takeaway Diff. 0 (16th) -7 (27th)
Pass Yds/Game 262 (5th) 198 (28th)
Rush Yds/Game 104 (19th) 75 (31st)
Def. Pass Yds/Game 193 (3rd) 203 (5th)
Def. Rush Yds/Game 96 (6th) 126 (28th)
Just going off the stats...one would think this would be a fairly low scoring game and PIT would run it great and CIN would struggle in the run game. But, they don't play these games on paper. The Bengals unleashed their rookie RB, Joe Mixon as the main ball carrier. Benard is still a very capable player in his own right, but I'm more concerned stopping the bigger, younger, Mixon. That's an area the DEF has struggled with.
Injuries...Juju (hamstring) I think he's going to play. McDonald (ankle), I have not heard the latest on Vance, but I saw a report he did practice.. @FaCe-LeE-uS might have more on injuries later.
Outlook...The Bengals, now, 5-6 have won 2 straight after starting the season in ugly fashion. I trust the young OTs have improved since the 1st meeting, but I see that RT, Fisher is out with some type of heart ailment...wish him a good recovery. The DEF still has Atkins anchoring the DL, the nutcase LB idt played in the 1st matchup. I like that young CB WJIII...Face and wanted in the draft. The OFC talent level in CIN is down a tad due to injury with Eifert and that impact WR2 not really surfacing yet, but they do have a solid DEF and will be a major challenge at home.
Steelers have won 5 straight in this series and that has to be eating at the core of that team. IMO a lot of the success I would attribute to PIT playing smarter at times, and not getting too wrapped up into the rivalry part of it.
I like the way the PIT OFC played last week...I think they will build on that again in primetime. Just too many weapons and the Steeler OL seems to match up well vs the Bengals DL...Hubbard should do okay vs Dunlap...the young LB Lawson...imo he's their best pass rusher and he concerns me.
Vegas probably has no clue how to set the line in these Steeler games to get money flowing on both sides....I like PIT in a fairly close game 24-17.
What say you?
Week 13 finds our beloved Steelers 9-2 and atop the AFCN by 3 games over the 6-5 Ravens. We now embark on the last 5 games of the regular season.
The orange and black clad Bengals are back on the docket again. This time the venue changes to Paul Brown stadium in the Queen City of Cincinnati. My best effort to cut and paste complements of pro-football reference.
Team Ranks
PIT CIN
Home Record 4-1-0 3-2-0
Away Record 5-1-0 2-4-0
Record vs. Spread 6-5-0 6-5-0
Points Scored 258 (12th) 199 (25th)
Points Allowed 193 (4th) 215 (10th)
Takeaway Diff. 0 (16th) -7 (27th)
Pass Yds/Game 262 (5th) 198 (28th)
Rush Yds/Game 104 (19th) 75 (31st)
Def. Pass Yds/Game 193 (3rd) 203 (5th)
Def. Rush Yds/Game 96 (6th) 126 (28th)
Just going off the stats...one would think this would be a fairly low scoring game and PIT would run it great and CIN would struggle in the run game. But, they don't play these games on paper. The Bengals unleashed their rookie RB, Joe Mixon as the main ball carrier. Benard is still a very capable player in his own right, but I'm more concerned stopping the bigger, younger, Mixon. That's an area the DEF has struggled with.
Injuries...Juju (hamstring) I think he's going to play. McDonald (ankle), I have not heard the latest on Vance, but I saw a report he did practice.. @FaCe-LeE-uS might have more on injuries later.
Outlook...The Bengals, now, 5-6 have won 2 straight after starting the season in ugly fashion. I trust the young OTs have improved since the 1st meeting, but I see that RT, Fisher is out with some type of heart ailment...wish him a good recovery. The DEF still has Atkins anchoring the DL, the nutcase LB idt played in the 1st matchup. I like that young CB WJIII...Face and wanted in the draft. The OFC talent level in CIN is down a tad due to injury with Eifert and that impact WR2 not really surfacing yet, but they do have a solid DEF and will be a major challenge at home.
Steelers have won 5 straight in this series and that has to be eating at the core of that team. IMO a lot of the success I would attribute to PIT playing smarter at times, and not getting too wrapped up into the rivalry part of it.
I like the way the PIT OFC played last week...I think they will build on that again in primetime. Just too many weapons and the Steeler OL seems to match up well vs the Bengals DL...Hubbard should do okay vs Dunlap...the young LB Lawson...imo he's their best pass rusher and he concerns me.
Vegas probably has no clue how to set the line in these Steeler games to get money flowing on both sides....I like PIT in a fairly close game 24-17.
What say you?