NFL lines, Week 7: 5 best bets
By John Buhler
Cincinnati Bengals (+3.5) at Pittsburgh Steelers
This game writes itself. We’ve got a pair of divisional rivals that absolutely hate each other. The visiting team is riding a two-game winning streak coming off a bye. The home team is coming off its best win of the season over a team that it has owned of late.
Take the Cincinnati Bengals getting 3.5 points on the road versus the highly emotional Pittsburgh Steelers. Pittsburgh will be overly celebratory about knocking off the previously undefeated Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead in Week 6. Cincinnati has been game planning for the volatile Steelers for two weeks now.
Quarterback Andy Dalton looks infinitely better since the coaching change at offensive coordinator occurred. Wide receiver A.J. Green gives the Bengals all the production of Antonio Brown with none of the nonsense. In short, we’ll be getting a more even-keeled Bengals team on Sunday afternoon in Pittsburgh.
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The Bengals have a sneaky-good defense that could pick off Ben Roethlisberger a few times on Sunday. Pittsburgh might be the better and will probably win the division. However, Cincinnati gets the win and covers the spread this week because we need another series of concerning audio bites coming out of the Steelers locker room. Playmakers on three!