expressed his frustration<\/a> over Pittsburgh\u2019s difficulties in containing the run.<\/p>\n\u201cJust not playing gap sound football, obviously, we will have to look at the tape, but we felt like the run scheme we had for this game was going to be effective, Watt said Thursday. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to come down to just guys getting out of gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cincinnati\u2019s running backs, Chase Brown and Samaje Perine, combined for a total of 18 carries and racked up 139 yards. It\u2019s worth noting that Pittsburgh\u2019s run defense was never exactly on point, allowing an average of 110.6 rushing yards per game leading up to Thursday\u2019s matchup.<\/p>\n
The Steelers might have thought they solved their run defense after they held the Cleveland Browns to just 65 rushing yards the game before. However, Cincinnati\u2019s offense poses a much more formidable challenge, thanks to elite receivers like Ja\u2019Marr Chase and Tee Higgins, who help open up the running game.<\/p>\n
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Pittsburgh has just over a week to refine its defense before hosting the Green Bay Packers, who have averaged 122.2 rushing yards per game this season.<\/p>\n
More NFL: Steelers Cornerback Jalen Ramsey Calls Himself Out After Loss To Bengals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers suffered a tough defeat, losing 33-31 to the Cincinnati Bengals in a thrilling \u201cThursday Night Football\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,3284],"class_list":["post-6489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-t-j-watt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}