NFL Power poll
Before we get to the rankings of the best – and worst – of the NFL as we know it, we must discuss the Monday Night Football game. Pittsburgh 23, Cincinnati 20.
Steelers continue to win close games against teams they are considerably better than. Le’Veon Bell and Antonio Brown are the most dynamic RB-WR tandem since Smith and Irvin, maybe.
After his team lost a 17-point lead at home, Bengals coach Marvin Lewis, who, in his 15 years – yes, 15 bleeping’ years – in Cincinnati has as many playoff wins as Stewwie, will be walked to the curb no later than the Monday after the regular season. All of those are talking points. And all of them were rendered as an afterthought because of the overt brutality that last night’s game morphed into. It left us with the following thoughts:
We were watching live when Ryan Shazier went down on, comparatively last night, was an innocent tackle. Dude had his head down – kids, always, Always, ALWAYS see what you hit – and dropped listlessly to the turf. It was clear his feet and legs were not moving. He did everything he could to roll onto his back.