Dalton in coat, stands around during practice _ a step back

Even before he’d heard all the scores, he knew where it was headed.

“With all the stuff that we inflicted on ourselves, losing games we weren’t supposed to lose, putting ourselves in bad positions, it’s good to be in”, guard Ramon Foster said. Pittsburgh snuck its way into the playoffs, but they were seen as being the team to beat in the AFC before their loss to Baltimore in Week 16. The Chiefs won in Houston, 27-20, in Week 1. Playoff history doesn’t give much of an insight to this match up this weekend.

Bengals’ quarterback Andy Dalton took another step toward getting back on the field recently, getting the cast taken off of his right hand. He also had 2 touchdowns along with 2 interceptions, one of which was a William Gay pick-six.

“We have to go into the week, obviously, regardless of Andy’s status, right now we’re going to into at least the early part of the week preparing with AJ”, the coach said, via the Cincinnati Enquirer. A few things we won’t tolerate: personal attacks, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity (including expletives and letters followed by dashes), commercial promotion, impersonations, incoherence, proselytizing and SHOUTING.

In their first mathchup this season, Green posted 118 yards on 11 receptions and scored the go-ahead touchdown that won the Bengals the game.

The Bengals will face the Steelers on Saturday, Jan. 9 in Cincinnati at 8:15 p.m. EST. Carson Palmer suffered a severe knee injury on his first pass, and the Steelers pulled away to a 31-17 win.

However, there is now a glimmer of hope that Dalton will be able to return to action in the near future…if the Bengals are still in the playoffs, that is. Antonio Brown (career-high 136 receptions and 1,834 yards) had 187 yards versus the Browns on 13 catches, but he totaled that many receptions as the Steelers and Bengals each claimed a road contest in the series. “It’s time to right the ship”.

He’d been doing conditioning drills for the past week and got his cast off on Monday. At the moment, it’s McCarron’s team. Considering the fact that this is McCarron’s first real experience in the National Football League, the Bengals must be happy with their choice for Andy’s back-up.

The other point I am overly exhausted of hearing about is how Steelers fans think Vontaze Burfict made a “dirty” hit and took out Le’Veon Bell. They upset Pittsburgh the previous week, but couldn’t knock off another division rival.

McCarron made his first start at Paul Brown Stadium – and did enough to get the win.

The Bengals intercepted Baltimore quarterback Ryan Mallett twice on Sunday and did not turn the ball over themselves. McCarron and Pro-Bowl receiver A.J.

Pittsburgh is 8-3 SU when leading at the start of the fourth quarter this season. While Green led the team with 86 receptions and 1,297 yards, his 10 touchdowns were only eclipsed by tight end Tyler Eifert (13). He hasn’t thrown an interception in his three starts, avoiding the game-turning mistake.

Notes: The crowd of 57,254 was the smallest this season at Paul Brown Stadium…. It’s probably a compliment to not only to him and his preparation, his ability to learn and prepare on a limited number of snaps, but also to their coaching staff. Hugh Jackson and those guys, they’re teachers.