Looking for the Positives in The Steelers Loss to Cincy

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Published: November 17, 2009

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... Bengals was a crushing defeat (to say the least).  Not only did they fail to take the division lead, but also they lost to the Bengals for the second time this season, something that hasn’t happened since the 1998 season (one of Bill Cowher’s down years).

There are obviously many negatives that came out of this game.  Most notably was the horrendous (to put it mildly) play calling from Bruce Arians, which has been well documented on this site (and not just this past week).

Arians (and the kick-off coverage team) aside, the most distributing aspect of this game was how bad Ben Roethlisberger played.  He looked panicky when dropping back, was constantly looking to the covered man when there was an open receiver, never threw to the check down back when the rush was coming (part of this is the play calling), and most importantly, was very inaccurate.

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