Nov 21 2008
NFL Week 12 Thursday Night Football Recap
So Thursday Night Football is now over with a final score of Steelers 27-Bengals 10
Of course PIT won, who woulda picked Cinci? They are a team in need of rebuilding. Steelers strong D had a great game, Big Ben only threw 1 TD to tight end Heath Miller. Overall this is what PIT really needed.
Each team had 1 turnover. 208 net yards for CIN and 364 net yards for PIT. Steelers had more T.O.P. with 35:20 compared to Cinci’s 24:40.
An interesting fact is that Ben now has his 47th win in his 5 year career passing John Elway and one game from Otto Graham, Marino, and Brady. He has alot of hatters and critics, but continues to play solid and play to win.
Ben was 17/30 with 243 yards 1TD, and no INT’s. He also had 13 rushing yards on 3 att for 1 TD. So he finished with nice stats.
Fitzpatrick was 20/37 with 168 yards, 1TD, and 1INT. His 1TD was to G. Holt who had 16 yards on 2 catches.
Top 2 rushers for both teams are:
Cinci: Benson had 16 attempts for 35yds with his longest at 7 yards. He was controlled and had a bad game.
Pit: Moore had 15 attempts for 56yds with his longest at 15 yards. He didn’t score either. Not a great game, but not a horrible game.
Cinci is a team that needs to build from tha ground up and have a big change in coaching staff and pull off a few good free agent pick ups and good trades. While PIT is a team who is looking at playoffs and has solid game play on both sides of tha ball, especially defense. I am glad PIT won, seeing I picked them and that they needed it more than tha Bengals did..
