After posting a season high for rushing and getting back to their strong defense of not allowing more then 14 points a game, Bengals receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh summed up why the number one AFC North team lost so badly to the Steelers when he told SI.com, “I thought we’d win, no problem. But that wasn’t the case. When I looked at them last week as we were preparing, I thought, We got this game.”

I guess T.J. wasn’t paying attention to that game as two of the key offensive players and two of the defensive players were out. The offense guys where back for their game and most of the defense. T.J. prepared for a lesser team and do note, that team almost won, too.

I haven’t seen the game yet, but I’m excited to see it this week. This was the Steelers second test of the season (NE the first) and the third will be the Colts. The rest of their schedule outside of the Chargers is going to be an easy one, relatively speaking, and now that we’re 1-1 for real teams, it makes it a little easier to think they can make it to the AFC Championship game. Since NE won against the Black and Gold, the Steelers will probably have to play that game in Boston which is a good thing since the Steelers are 1-5 for AFC Championship games at home in the last ten years.

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