If you were excited about this game when the schedule out, we are sorry. Instead of it being a showdown of two teams fighting for the AFC North title, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals will square off to see which team gets the first win of the season.
The Steelers have typically owned the Bengals at Heinz Field but at this point, you can’t have much confidence this team will pull it together, even against Cincinnati.
Here are the three big things we are worried about this week.
The continued letdown
With each passing week, the energy on this team seems to waiver more and more. If the desperation of last week’s situation wasn’t enough to rally this group to play with more energy, will anything do it?
Stubborn coaches
Another week and more excuses for the Steelers’ failings. But ultimately this is a team littered with top draft picks they are underperforming. So there are two ways to look at this. Did the front office make bad picks/signings or are the players good and the coaches are clueless? I’ll let you all sort that one out.
The Mason Rudolph problem
There was no denying the struggles of Rudolph in his first NFL start. The glaring stat was the fact he only had two completions that went more than one yard past the line of scrimmage. But it wasn’t because he trying. Rudolph made plenty of throws downfield but most of his throws were off. We all want Rudolph to be great but he might not be great this week.
