Brief and to the Point ...
The Steelers would do well to zip their Cincinnati-loathing lips.
Oh, they haven't mouthed off just yet about the upcoming playoff re-rematch with the Bengals, at least not for public consumption. Will Allen and Darrius Heyward-Bey, good soldiers to the bone, were sent to the podium Monday on the South Side and said all the right stuff. But both teams will get their first real chance to pipe up over the next 24 hours when we media types descend on the Rooney Sports Complex, all looking for quotes that match the rabid energy shown between these two teams in recent meetings.
"It won't be coming from me," Marcus Gilbert was telling me Sunday in Cleveland, this before it was known the Bengals would be the opponent. "I've got a job to do."
We'll see. Gilbert was far from the only one among the Steelers gleefully gloating after that 33-20 bullying Dec. 13 at Paul Brown Stadium and, honestly, I couldn't blame them. The Bengals had blathered all week long and, once kickoff came, they got their tails kicked.
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