NFL Week 12 Thursday night Bettors Guide: Steelers at Browns

STEELERS astatine BROWNS

8:15 p.m., Steelers by 4 ½, 36 ½

HANK’S HONEYS: Function vs. dysfunction. Yes, it seems similar a fishy line, driven down by the rivalry. One besides has to see the anticipation of a Pittsburgh letdown connected a abbreviated week aft the Steelers’ immense triumph implicit the Ravens. OK we’ve considered it. The Steelers ne'er fto down against Cleveland. So however tin anyone stake connected the free-falling Browns against Prime Time Mike Tomlin’s awesome crew? Temperatures are expected to beryllium conscionable supra freezing with a wintry premix that mightiness crook the writer tract into a slippery mess. That sounds similar Steelers upwind to us. Cleveland’s antiaircraft beforehand is built connected speed, not muscle, and we tin spot them being pushed each implicit the tract similar a blocking sled. Myles Garrett whitethorn beryllium jacked up implicit T.J. Watt’s comments implicit his Defensive Player of the Year grant but he’s going to walk overmuch of the crippled defending the run, wherever Najee Harris should person a tract time aft being constricted to 63 yards by the Ravens. The Browns, with run-stopping LB Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah connected IR since Week 8, are giving up 131.7 rushing ypg and 4.8 per carry. On the different hand, Nick Chubb, sadly, hasn’t been the aforesaid since his heroic instrumentality this season, and that volition enactment a ample portion of the discourtesy connected Jameis Winston’s arm. Minkah Fitzpatrick and the ball-hawking secondary indispensable beryllium licking their chops. Winston’s O-line has been a sieve truthful expect a large mightiness from Watt and the Steelers’ pash rush, adjacent if Alex Highsmith is held retired again.

It’s an under-the-total forecast and with truthful small expected of the Browns’ offense, that’s the lone stake you tin marque with the total.

IF I WERE A BETTING MAN: Steelers and the under.