stillers4me
04-02-2011, 09:50 AM
This is #8 in a recap of the 2010 season. There is a list with links at the end of the post for those who may have missed some or all of the previous posts and would like to check them out. But now it's time for the first game vs. the Cincinnati Bengals (http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/teams/cincinnati-bengals).
This was our Monday Night Football game, and was a game both the Steelers (http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/teams/pittsburgh-steelers) and the Bengals really needed to win. The Steelers needed the win so that they would not fall behind the Baltimore Ravens (http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/teams/baltimore-ravens), who were 6-2 and had beat us in Week 4. It was a much more desperate and embarrassing than that for the Bengals - they needed the win so as not to fall behind the Browns (http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/teams/cleveland-browns), which is just as bad as it sounds. The problem was, the Bengals defense came prepared to play.
But apparently no one had mentioned this issue to the offense or special teams, because they seemed prepared to hand the game over to the Steelers until the beginning of the fourth quarter, when they started showing signs of life and almost scared the pants off of the Steeler faithful. Carson Palmer (http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/players/2600/carson-palmer) was asked after the game if it felt like 2009, like they were going to come out and win the game in the fourth quarter, and said "Yea, I thought, and everybody in the huddle thought, that we were going to go down and score. Obviously, and unfortunately, that's not the case." But on to the game:
Game 8 @ Cincinnati Bengals - Final Score Steelers 27, Bengals 21............
Read more @ http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/2011/4/1/2084001/a-tale-of-two-teams-the-2010-pittsburgh-steelers-game-8
This was our Monday Night Football game, and was a game both the Steelers (http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/teams/pittsburgh-steelers) and the Bengals really needed to win. The Steelers needed the win so that they would not fall behind the Baltimore Ravens (http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/teams/baltimore-ravens), who were 6-2 and had beat us in Week 4. It was a much more desperate and embarrassing than that for the Bengals - they needed the win so as not to fall behind the Browns (http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/teams/cleveland-browns), which is just as bad as it sounds. The problem was, the Bengals defense came prepared to play.
But apparently no one had mentioned this issue to the offense or special teams, because they seemed prepared to hand the game over to the Steelers until the beginning of the fourth quarter, when they started showing signs of life and almost scared the pants off of the Steeler faithful. Carson Palmer (http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/players/2600/carson-palmer) was asked after the game if it felt like 2009, like they were going to come out and win the game in the fourth quarter, and said "Yea, I thought, and everybody in the huddle thought, that we were going to go down and score. Obviously, and unfortunately, that's not the case." But on to the game:
Game 8 @ Cincinnati Bengals - Final Score Steelers 27, Bengals 21............
Read more @ http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/2011/4/1/2084001/a-tale-of-two-teams-the-2010-pittsburgh-steelers-game-8