STEELERS at BROWNS
8:15 p.m., Steelers by 4 ½, 36 ½
HANK’S HONEYS: Perform vs. dysfunction. Sure, it looks like a fishy line, pushed down by the rivalry. One additionally has to contemplate the potential for a Pittsburgh letdown on a brief week after the Steelers’ large win over the Ravens. OK we’ve thought of it. The Steelers by no means let down in opposition to Cleveland. So how can anybody guess on the free-falling Browns in opposition to Prime Time Mike Tomlin’s spectacular crew? Temperatures are anticipated to be simply above freezing with a wintry combine that may flip the grass discipline right into a slippery mess. That appears like Steelers climate to us. Cleveland’s defensive entrance is constructed on pace, not muscle, and we are able to see them being pushed all around the discipline like a blocking sled. Myles Garrett could also be jacked up over T.J. Watt’s feedback over his Defensive Participant of the Yr award however he’s going to spend a lot of the sport defending the run, the place Najee Harris ought to have a discipline day after being restricted to 63 yards by the Ravens. The Browns, with run-stopping LB Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah on IR since Week 8, are giving up 131.7 speeding ypg and 4.8 per carry. Then again, Nick Chubb, sadly, hasn’t been the identical since his heroic return this season, and that can put a big a part of the offense on Jameis Winston’s arm. Minkah Fitzpatrick and the ball-hawking secondary should be licking their chops. Winston’s O-line has been a sieve so count on a giant would possibly from Watt and the Steelers’ pash rush, even when Alex Highsmith is held out once more.
It’s an under-the-total forecast and with so little anticipated of the Browns’ offense, that’s the one guess you can also make with the entire.
IF I WERE A BETTING MAN: Steelers and the beneath.
