Worst prime time game of the year?

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(09-27-2019, 05:51 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Monday night Steelers v. Bengals

These teams look horrible.  I am disgusted with the Bengals 25th scoring offense and 27th scoring defense, but they actually rank higher than the Steelers (27th off, 28th def).  But both teams have played two close games and one blowout.  The Steelers lost by 30 to the Pats while the Bengals lost by 24 to SF.  (BTW How many of you realize that the Pats have outscored their opponents 106-17 through 3 games?  That is insane!)

It gets worse for the Steelers when you look at yardage (30th off, 29th def).  The Bengals actually look better with the 18th ranked offense, but the defense is still 27th.

Steelers make up the difference in turnovers.  Bengals are 30th in turnovers (8) and (-4) in turnover ratio.  Steelers have turned the ball over half as much (4) as the Bengals, and lead the league with 7 forced turnovers.  They are +3 in turnover ratio.  That is what kept them close against the Niners.  SF had 5 turnovers against the Steelers and only one against us.

Basically if we don't turn the ball over we have a decent chance to beat these Steelers.

Or we could make Benny Snell look like Franco Harris and Mason Rudolph like Roethlisberger.  We could get blown out in front of a national audience.

At least 3 of the Steelers takeaways in the SF game were unforced errors and "lucky" bounces. Typically, TO ratio is a pretty good indicator of record, except here it's an anomaly and if they keep losing, it will eventually correct itself.