McCarron said he was preparing to start Saturday’s game.
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With The 2015-2016 regular season over the playoffs have begun and this starts with the wildcard games. He took over when Dalton broke his thumb during a 33-20 loss to the Steelers at Paul Brown Stadium on December 13.
As AL.com reports, Lewis didn’t want to give the press any information about Dalton’s condition, and remained adamant that the Bengals were prepping to face the Steelers with McCarron taking the snaps.
The Teams: The Steelers needed some help to get into the playoffs, and they got it, and the Bengals have faded a bit from being a possible Super Bowl contender earlier in the year to a team chugging along slowly with a backup quarterback.
The Pittsburgh Steelers find themselves in familiar territory, squeezing into the playoffs as the sixth seed and challenging the AFC North-champion Cincinnati Bengals in the wild-card round.
The Bengals have faced the Steelers only once in the playoffs.
McCarron’s numbers may not be as inflated as Dalton’s and the offense is scoring at a lower rate (21.3 points per game as opposed to 27.8 in games Dalton finished), but Pittsburgh head coach Mike Tomlin is seeing what Jackson said would be the case – that the Bengals haven’t changed much since that December 13 game.
And now, they’re coming back.
The total is set at 46.5 and dropping but I see offense in this one and I have it going over the total and the over is my free pick. The Red Rifle had his cast removed yesterday, but that does not necessarily mean that he will be able to play anytime soon. Ben Roethlisberger completed 24 of 36 passes for 349 yards and three touchdowns against two interceptions. There should be a lot of points scored in this game.
“He said he remembered”, McCarron said. “If the (opposing) quarterback turns the ball over and you don’t, it puts your team in a situation to win the ballgame”. But his performance on Sunday amounted to a breakthrough. He’s thrown for 552 yards and four touchdowns. We had some long drives, some good third down conversions. He averaged 114 yards per game across the season.
DEFENSE YIELDS YARDS, NOT POINTS: Cincinnati’s defense followed its form of allowing yards but not points.
Players often talk about how the intensity in the National Football League is ratcheted up with each step taken over the course of a season.
Pittsburgh was a bit wishy-washy this season, losing to opponents they should have beaten, such as the Ravens, and beating opponents they could have easily lost to, like the Broncos. On the ground, Jeremy Hill had 96 yards and one touchdown in 16 attempts while Giovani Bernard added 36 yards in six attempts. Mallett also was sacked once and pressured more often. “I’m looking forward to the spring and to (workouts)”.
” I think Antonio Brown should be in consideration for not just the best receiver in football, but for MVP”.
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It’s doubtful that any of the 60,012 fans in attendance that day at old Riverfront Stadium could have envisioned that more than 25 years later the Bengals would still be seeking their next postseason win. “That’s something I feel we should come out with every game and not have to be egged into that”.
