Andy Dalton Won’t Need Surgery On Thumb

In this scenario, the Pittsburgh Steelers play the role of Lucy. An update suggests he’ll miss up to six weeks, though.

Mularkey says Morgan had surgery after doing everything the Titans had asked of the linebacker in trying to recover. And that was all she wrote for the Bengals that year. We will identify undervalued and overvalued quarterbacks (and therefore, teams) to wager on or against during the stretch run of the season.

Spring forward to this past Sunday. The longest play of the game for Pittsburgh came on the strength of a 31-yard reception by Markus Wheaton.

McCarron takes over for the first-place Cincinnati Bengals after Dalton broke his right thumb Sunday.

Then again, maybe he’s not ready. However, that dream took a big hit on Sunday when Andy Dalton went down with a thumb injury on his throwing arm that may or may not have ended his season. Defensive end Stephon Tuitt’s interception of Dalton at the Steelers’ 5-yard line in the first quarter was their sixth red-zone takeaway this season. Dalton’s hand will remain in a cast for now. The ensuing Cincinnati drive also resulted in a turnover, with quarterback A.J. McCarron being picked off by safety Robert Golden. The only issue is the Steelers are a tad better than the SEC defenses McCarron was used to.

The AJ-to-A.J. connection already has one touchdown, but no keepsake.

Ed Bouchette and Gerry Dulac talk about the Steelers win against the Bengals this afternoon at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnatti.

The injury could not be any more ill-timed for two reasons, the most obvious of which is the fact that the playoffs are nigh. Also 20 points, which is less than 33 oddly enough. The Bengals’ front office has worked hard to build a team from within, complete with the ideal mixture of young phenoms and proven veterans.

Even if Dalton were to miss the remainder of the regular season, Cincinnati is a lock to make the playoffs.

“It’s disappointing for us as a football team”, Lewis said.

Though things might look bleak in Bengals Land, there is still hope. The Bengals are going to be fine with AJ McCarron. Miller finished the season series against the Bengals with 20 catches.

“Football is football. That talking and street stuff, you want to be a thug type of stuff, you leave that at home”, guard Ramon Foster said.

Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has averaged 363 passing yards in the past five games. The Steelers are going to need to be huge fans of both the Patriots and Bills when they each on the Jets to finish out the year.

The Raiders’ Khalil Mack is an absolute beast.

McCarron was sacked three times and had another interception that led to a touchdown. McCarren has to step up his game. So if you’re looking for a fight and there’s only one guy in the bar then bad luck for him.

The Falcons at this point must be just betting against themselves in Vegas. Or some other, more colorful version of it.

Though it was in garbage time with the game out of control, it was nice to see McCarron continue to work and distribute the ball to different receivers.

The Jaguars just put 51 points on the Colts.

Given the circumstances, Cincinnati might be best served by entering the playoffs as an 11-5 wild card.

To get to the magic number of 10 wins that ordinarily is going to get a team into the playoffs the Steelers had to beat just one of the good teams.