The #Steelers will feature an entirely new right side of their O-line this week, with first-round rookie OT Max Iheanachor making his debut as a starter, sources say.
In addition, Brock Hoffman will be at right guard. It all starts up front.
Uno de las mayores mentiras modernas en la NFL hoy en día es que Cincinnati llegó al Super Bowl por Joe Burrow
Solo les recuerdo que la defensa en playoffs:
19 puntos, 1 INT y 3 sacks a Derek Carr
16 puntos, 3 INT a Tannehill (literalmente lo mandaron al psicólogo)
24 puntos, 3 en la segunda mitad, 2 INT de las cuales una en OT a Mahomes
23 puntos, 3 en la segunda mitad hasta la última serie ofensiva de Stafford que anotó 7 después de mil castigos
Es una mentira gigantesca que Cincinnati llegó al Super Bowl por Joe Burrow y la ofensiva
Au moment du "Salve Regina" j'ai éclaté en sanglots et j'ai pleuré. Des dizaines de milliers de jeunes qui chantent en latin, je n'ai jamais cru que c'était possible de connaître ça un jour.
Quelque chose s'est passé ce soir.❤️
Corte Penal Internacional tiene elementos para investigar a AMLO por crímenes de lesa humanidad
Un análisis de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de California en Berkeley concluye que la vigilancia intrusiva sin orden judicial, las campañas digitales de acoso y la estigmatización desde el poder público durante el sexenio de López Obrador pueden encuadrarse bajo la figura del crimen de lesa humanidad de persecución.
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Moving scenes as Pope Leo XIV cries as thousands of faithful sing the Salve Regina in Latin to honour Our Lady of Paris, on the steps of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.
Ed Orgeron reveals he told Joe Burrow in a restaurant parking lot on his recruiting visit that LSU would fire him if he didn’t get him to commit, and says he told him if he did come he would win a National Championship
“Joe comes on a visit. Now Joe was going to Cincinnati. Joe’s girlfriend was going to Cincinnati. Joe’s daddy coached about an hour away from there. So Joe comes on a visit with his mom and daddy. Great people.”
“The first thing he tells me, ‘Coach, I don’t want to talk to you.’ He goes, ‘Coach, I know you’re a great recruiter. All I want to do is talk football and eat crawfish.’ Next day, we had a football meeting. There’s about 12 of us there.”
“It took me five minutes to figure out, remember what Jimmy Johnson taught me? Smart quarterback. Joe was the smartest guy in the room, including me, including all the coaches. So anyway, in any good sales, there’s always a crack in the door. But you got to sense that crack. You got to seize it. If the crack’s not there, wait.”
“I went up to him and I said, ‘Joe, I want to talk to you.’ He went, ‘Yes, sir.’ I knew it. So I took him outside. This might have been the most important talk I ever had in all my life. I said, ‘Joe, if you tell anybody about this conversation, it never happened.’”
“‘Joe, I don’t get you, they’re going to fire me. I get you, we’re going to win the national championship. That’s how important you are to me.’ They’re going to fire me if you don't come here but if you do, we're going to win it all.”
One of the interesting things we'll learn about the Bengals in Pittsburgh is how they match up against 12 personnel.
The Bucs and Texans mostly used three receiver sets versus the Bengals. When they did go into 12 personnel, the Bengals typically matched with five down defensive linemen as their base defense. The team’s increased athleticism on the edge (Mafe, Howell, Johnson) makes that a different tool at their disposal this year (the Bengals aren't going 4-3 anymore with Burks), and Mafe, Howell and Johnson can all drop in coverage.
That’ll be more of a challenge against a Steelers offense capable of running a lot of their passing game through their tight ends.
The Bengals did something very interesting in Houston. There was a Tacario Davis package on a handful of base downs that had Dax Hill in the slot in a big nickel look. From what I could tell, that let the Bengals match up Hill in the slot against the speedy Noel in the slot. Often in Houston, when the Bengals went into that big nickel look, they had five DL and just one linebacker (something like Ced Johnson in the place of Knight and then Tacario Davis in the place of Jalen Davis). In that package in Houston, Tacario Davis did get a one on one rep out wide against the Texans’ tight end (Schultz).
Tacario Davis also has a role on some third down/two minute dime looks as a true outside corner (DJ Ivey is the tight end stopper, T. Davis takes the place of Jalen Davis in some matchups). The Bengals had Tacario Davis match up against the 6-foot-3 receiver (Wayne) on those plays.
When the Steelers roll out Freiermuth and Washington together this week, do the Bengals stick with five DL? Do they put Tacario in for Jalen and go with a bigger corner group (and do they use that big nickel group with 5 DL like they did last week)? Do they do what the Texans’ defense did against the Bengals’ offense last week when the Bengals were in two tight end sets and trot out a big nickel package that has three safeties — Kyle Dugger could factor in there for the Bengals.
The Steelers is a big matchup for DJ Ivey, who factored heavily into the third down plan against the Steelers last year. Ivey has literally never allowed a first down catch to a tight end, but he hasn't had much of an early down role in his career.
Notable Bengals defensive additions in 2026, per @NextGenStats
Dexter Lawrence
- 4 pressures after double team (T-1st in NFL)
Boye Mafe
- 11 pressures when blocked 1-on-1 (T-2nd in NFL)
Jonathan Allen
- 3 pressures after double team (T-3rd in NFL)