As Exciting And Rewarding This Season Has Been so Far I'm shaking My Head..

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(10-27-2015, 09:48 PM)SHRacerX Wrote: Motivation is everything.  The steelers HAVE to win this game.  It's at home, and if they lose, they will fall four full games back in the loss column (five, really, since head-to-head).  It will be tough for the Bengals to match their desire.  The Bengals don't NEED this win.  It would be great, and they will come out firing, but it is going to be difficult for sure.

If putzburg wins, it doesn't end the Bengals season.  They simply have to even them up when they come to PBS.  

However....if the Bengals can win this game....they have a shot....at going 16-0.  I'm not joking.  The AZ game will be a very difficult travel on a short week, but they can (and just might) win them all if they get the win this weekend.

They could be 9-0 heading to AZ.  If you get to 10-0, they are going to start thinking about it.  Don't come back at me with "one game at a time".  I'm not a player, I'm a fan....and I can look ahead without any ramifications to the team.  

The Bengals are playing with house money.  The steelers have everything to lose here.  If the Bengals can avoid a big play to Bryant, Bell, or Brown then I think it is a slug fest and the Bengals simply have the better defense.  

I am beyond excited for this game.  Who-dey!!!

I don't see any issue for the Bengals matching the intensity. Why would they? The Steelers beat us not once, but twice in 2014 costing us our division and making us a wild card on the road. The players and coaches know what to expect and they know the Steelers are in must win, but the Bengals have a chip on their shoulder called getting no respect. They have been to the playoffs 4 years in a row, had a roster mostly in tact, yet the media picked the Ravens or Steelers to win the AFCN and many predicted the Bengals would not make it back to the playoffs the 5th year in a row.

The Steelers may beat us as overcoming a hostile environment against a very good football team may be too much, but it won't be a lack of preparation or a lack of effort in my opinion.