NFL Week 10 Game of the Week: Cincinnati Bengals (6-2) At Pittburgh Steelers (6-2)

It’s week 10 in the NFL and one is hard pressed to find too many great matchups. In fact, when looking to anoint one game the game of the week, only two games even come into consideration. On Sunday night, the New England Patriots play at Indianapolis against the undefeated Colts. The Patriots are (6-2) and don’t want the Colts to have a chance at replacing them as the most recent team in NFL history to go undefeated during the regular season. This game is great and I have every intention to watch it, but it is still not the game of the week. The Patriots and Colts might both be AFC powerhouses, but anytime there is a key divisional rival game between two good teams where the winner gets the inside track on the division, then that is the number one game to watch.

The AFC North is up for grabs in a winner-take-all showdown. The Cincinnati Bengals travel to Pittsburgh to take on the Super Bowl defending champion Pittsburgh Steelers at 1 PM on Sunday afternoon. Both teams are (6-2) and currently tied atop the AFC North division. The two teams played back in week three at Cincinnati and the Bengals rallied late to beat the Steelers 23-20. The Steelers had the led the entire game until Carson Palmer connected with Andre Caldwell in the end zone for a 4 yard touchdown with a mere 14 seconds left in the game. That tough loss dropped the Pittsburgh Steelers to a record of (1-2) and threatened to put them into a year long struggle to even return to the playoffs, but they had a different plan. Why struggle when you can just start beating the crap out of your opponents like they are all third graders and you are the sixth grade bully on the playground? They have even done a great job of spreading the pain around to good teams and bad teams both the same. The Steelers gave the same butt whooping to good teams like the Vikings, Broncos and Chargers that they gave to the lowest of the low teams like the Lions and Browns.

The Steelers come into this game on a five game win streak with their last loss being that one in Cincinnati, but they better be careful; the pressure is on them this time. If they lose to the Bengals this week in Pittsburgh, then they will be one game behind Cincinnati and will lose the tiebreaker to them, which in essence really would give the Bengals a two game lead over the defending champs.