09-26-2019, 10:31 AM
Last season we were 4-1 and feeling pretty good about the season, had some comebacks and the defense despite some troubles had stepped up in the clutch.
Then we scored a TD with a little over a minute to go taking the lead 21-20 over the Steelers and just needed one more stand to go 5-1. The Steelers again jerked the rug out from under the Bengals and took all the air outta that team winning the game 28-21. The Bengals never recovered !
The Bengals are 1-10 including playoffs vs. Pittsburgh in the last 5 seasons, the last win was at Pittsburgh Nov. 1st 2015 The Steelers have swept the Bengals 3 seasons in a row coming into MNF.
In the ML era the Bengals were 8-26 vs. the Steelers including playoffs. The Steelers swept us 9 out of 16 seasons, we swept them once - 09. We were 2-16 at home vs. Steelers
You could go on and on with how much the Steelers have owned this team over the last 16 seasons !
I hear people saying it's not really a rivalry now with players gone and out, New Dey, new coaches here and so on.
IT MATTERS If the Bengals take yet another loss to a very beatable Steelers team you can write finis on this season. I'm not trying to say we're about to kick off a Super Bowl run, however. I feel this season despite being 0-3 is still somewhat salvageable. 9-7 or 8-8 is still doable IMHO and perhaps with a little luck ? who knows what turn of events lies ahead in the AFC ?
We need to cast the Pittsburgh monkey off our backs and we need, in a bad way, to do it now. It's a defining moment in this New Dey era.
Then we scored a TD with a little over a minute to go taking the lead 21-20 over the Steelers and just needed one more stand to go 5-1. The Steelers again jerked the rug out from under the Bengals and took all the air outta that team winning the game 28-21. The Bengals never recovered !
The Bengals are 1-10 including playoffs vs. Pittsburgh in the last 5 seasons, the last win was at Pittsburgh Nov. 1st 2015 The Steelers have swept the Bengals 3 seasons in a row coming into MNF.
In the ML era the Bengals were 8-26 vs. the Steelers including playoffs. The Steelers swept us 9 out of 16 seasons, we swept them once - 09. We were 2-16 at home vs. Steelers
You could go on and on with how much the Steelers have owned this team over the last 16 seasons !
I hear people saying it's not really a rivalry now with players gone and out, New Dey, new coaches here and so on.
IT MATTERS If the Bengals take yet another loss to a very beatable Steelers team you can write finis on this season. I'm not trying to say we're about to kick off a Super Bowl run, however. I feel this season despite being 0-3 is still somewhat salvageable. 9-7 or 8-8 is still doable IMHO and perhaps with a little luck ? who knows what turn of events lies ahead in the AFC ?
We need to cast the Pittsburgh monkey off our backs and we need, in a bad way, to do it now. It's a defining moment in this New Dey era.
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