Key factor to beat CIN

Only one answer, the MOST important factor to beat CIN.

* If you picked other, please elaborate

 

No dumb mistakes!!

 

Ring the Bell early, often and all freaking day. Wake the echoes with old school Steeler Football

 

Establish the running game. And make it effective in the red zone. Keeps the defense off Ben and our defense off the field. The less time we give the Bengals offense the better. Eifert and Co. need to have limited opportunities.

 

I say spread the ball around early and often.
Keeping Ben clean is a must, but probably not likely.
I'd love to hammer them with Bell, but if they haven't been finding ways to negate the pulling guard run, they aren't doing their jobs.
My guess is the Bengals D will be stacking up against the run, and pressing AB. We need Ben to be looking to Wheaton, Bryant, Williams et al. to exploit that.

 

keep Ben clean
hopefully everything else falls into place when he is protected

 

I picked pressure Dalton. Too many weapons, and if he has all day to throw, he'll pick apart our secondary. Defense just has to do enough and keep Dalton off the field.

 

If Ben wasn't out for a month and shedding rust in this game I would welcome a shoot out between Dalton and Ben, but we need to give Bell a lot of touches to keep their offense on the sideline, at least until Ben gets into a rhythm, so the key to this game is the Oline has to protect Ben and open holes up for the run game, they have to have a great game to get this offense rolling....

 

Can I pick all of the above?

 

other. all of the above.

 

Other...quit missing tackles and no 12 yard cushions.

 

Get the ball to the playmakers, Bell needs to get over 100 yds rushing to keep the ball from the Bengals offense.

 

If we score TD's (and NOT FG's) with our defense we are good enough to beat anyone. But we need to score 27+ points to beat Cinci.

Turnovers is obvious.. you'll lose to anyone if you turn the ball over so I think it's a little silly to say that's the key to beating cinci.

What I wonder is if our coaches will put our players in a good position to win the game. Last week has me doubting this.

 

I also voted for "Other" as I feel all of the above is needed to beat the Bungles.