We like the Cincinnati Bengals to defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday at 1:00pm ET for a number of reasons. Here are some of the more important ones:

The Bengals might have a worse record. But, Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase are doing everything that they can to turn things around.

Cincinnati are 8-2-1 versus the spread over their L11 games played in the month of December. (4-2 against the spread over their L6 overall this season.)

They are also scoring a lot of points this season averaging 27.0 points a game which is 6th best in NFL.

The Steelers are averaging more than four points less than that per game at 22.9.

Pittsburgh are also coming off a bad loss to Cleveland last weekend in the snow. That will be a tough game to bounce back from, even more so against a Bengals team that has to win.

We like the home favorite today. Lay the points.

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