Bengals’ Dalton and Green among NFL’s best duos already

The Steelers have given up the 6 most fantasy points to tight ends.

Steelers RT Marcus Gilbert vs. Bengals LDE Carlos Dunlap: Dunlap has 9.5 sacks on the season, but he was held without one in the first meeting and Gilbert has yet to be charged with a sack allowed this season. After all, as the Pittsburgh Steelers regularly point out, the injury rate in the National Football League is 100 percent. It was one of those offensive days when nothing went right.

And he’s talking confidently.

The Jets have a stumbling block this week against Tennessee…I’m never confident when we face athletic QB’s. Dalton says that it’s a new play mentality for the team, they are doing well and they have big goals, which includes not just getting into the playoffs. Hall turned 31 Wednesday as a question mark. Now they’re trying to recover from their first back-to-back losses in more than three years.

But after practice Wednesday, defensive coordinator Paul Guenther didn’t look as distraught as he was last year when his linebacking crew was decimated in the middle of the year.

At this point in the season, teams will have a hard time surviving without proper depth. As it stands now, Patriots nation will be rooting for the Bengals to win that game.

None of us wants it to end. You’ve got to fight like hell to keep it and to keep that good feeling going. I wasn’t surprised at all he played well… It’s not like what are we going to do? It went about as well as you’d expect it to. We are well prepared for the next guy to go up. We have to be better up front. “We’re better. A lot better”.

After a 1-5 start, no team in the AFC is hotter than the Chiefs, winners of six in a row. In both cases, the Patriots looked like a team that was clearly missing their star players. The Patriots and Bengals would also be tied in the next tiebreaker, record against common opponents, at 4-1 – which brings it to the obscure “Strength of Victory” tiebreaker. The return of Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman sooner rather than later would certainly help assure that the Patriots’€™ passing game gets back on track. He’s a competitive guy. I call him sawed-off, because he’s a little bit short. Bengals Pro Bowl wide receiver A.J. Green got behind Williams’ coverage and streaked down the sideline, where he hauled in a pass from Dalton and sprinted almost 20 more yards before Williams dove for his legs and tripped him up at the Browns’ 27-yard line. Brandon Boykin, who had played only 22 snaps prior to Sunday’s game, will play mostly in the slot. “That’s the approach we’re taking into the game”.

“This doesn’t happen all the time”, Jackson said. “It’s different from playing all four years in college and then being a rookie in the NFL”. He extends plays, he does so much moving around and all that kind of stuff. Just let the game come to me.

The Broncos are going to be favored at home with the Bengals in town Week 16, so assuming Denver takes care of business in that game the Patriots will need to root for Denver to have a letdown either at home against the Raiders or Chargers, or on the road at the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The Steelers are 8-0 ATS in their last 8 games in December and 11-5-1 ATS in their last 17 games overall.

Markus Wheaton has become a threat over the past two weeks as well. Deep balls. That’s all he does. I know what’s coming. “I just see what I see”. With three of those four games in Mile High should kindle that fire even more.

“I played bad football”, Roethlisberger remembered, via ESPN.