How Are The Steelers Ranked Ahead of Us?

[Essex Johnson]

(05-26-2016, 10:13 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: You're saying that the Bengals lost because of the fact that they did not have their QB. I mentioned the fact that the Ravens didn't have their QB, 4 of their top 5 receivers, their RB, their TE, and half their line. I'll never blame their season on that, the D was playing god awful for the first half of the season (and then was the best pass D after all the offensive injuries... imagine that). I bring it up because Bengals fans have said it's not an excuse. 

You can't say losing a QB is the reason you lose for your team and then say that it's not the reason another team lost games, especially when it was a SB MVP QB and many more offensive starters.

You seem to avoid your point,, you stated that the Ravens season was bad because of injuries.. I stated that they were 0-3 before main injuries.. and when you look at QB play,, Dalton was way superior to Flacco healthy they actually improved without Flaco.. since they were 3-7 with him at QB and 2-4 without... 

My point all along has been that the Bengals were superior during the regular season with Dalton...10-2 with him, 2-3, 1-0 as starter against the Steelers, 0-2 without him, yet one play away from winning the playoff game.  

When I add everything up I still see the Bengals had the better season and would put them on paper ahead of Steelers but really very little difference overall between the two teams coming into the season, though with Eifert maybe out in being of year, I would give the Steelers the edge now coming into the season if he is expected out for the first few games.