Defining Moment

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(09-26-2019, 10:31 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: 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.

While I completely agree with this....I believe the steelers haven't lost at home on MFN since something like 1990 and the Bengals haven't won, on the road, on MNF, since 1991.  I agree that it is a huge game, not just for the season but their mindset going forward.  It will be a huge challenge if the officiating is as horrible as it has been against Cincy.  Also, sadly, should they pull it off they will get zero credit for it since they did it without Piggy.