Walk In Your Trap, Take Over Your Trap Game Of The Year

The Pittsburgh Steelers travel to Cleveland to face the Browns as a road favorite (-3.5), and it's officially the trap game of the year. I woke up anxious thinking about this matchup and am still chewing my black and yellow scarf as I type out this blog. This game scares the shit out of me for multiple reasons.

Tomlin leads his team into this matchup with a 26-7-1 record against the Browns but here's the catch, he's 1-7 on Thursday Night Football with 3 of those losses coming against Cleveland. In fact, in the Steelers last 6 matchups against the Browns, they are a disappointing 1-4-1 including 2 TNF losses.

Moving on to the line of this game, an 8-2 division leader taking on the bottom-of-the-barrel 2-8 team and only getting 3.5 points makes me feel like Draft Kings is begging the suckers to come out to play, lay the number, and get their hearts broken. Fuck it, I'm in.

I'll leave my bet slips at the bottom for those that are as Sussy for Russy as I am, but my official plays are Steelers -3.5 and over 36.5 points.

Here are the stats backing my plays heading into this matchup:

Points Per Game: PIT 23.3 CLE 16.2

Points Allowed: PIT 16.2 CLE 24.8

• The Browns allow 1.4 rushing touchdowns a game, 29th in the NFL

• The Browns rank 30th in the NFL in takeaways per game at 0.7

• The Browns allow 3 opponent touchdowns per game, 25th in the NFL

• The Browns allow 7.8 yards per pass, 29th in the NFL

• The Steelers rank 3rd in takeaways with 1.9 per game and are 2nd overall in turnover margin per game at -1.1

• The Steelers rank 3rd in opponent touchdowns with 1.7 per game

• It's Nick Herbigs birthday. (great stat)

BLOGGING BETS

Again, my official plays are Steelers -3.5 and Over 36.5, but here are some fun ways to use your boosts.

The Sussy For Russy parlay consists of using The Signs by Jersey Jerry, laying the number, and getting sussy.

The Don't Overthink It parlay is laying both my official plays with Russy's favorite target getting into the endzone. Not enough people talking about GP being 3rd in the NFL in receiving yards.

The Run The Damn Ball parlay consists of both Steeler backs hitting paydirt.

The Keys To Victory Parlay, Najee gets in, GP stretches the field, and I hit my bets. As simple as that.

The Birthday Boy also gets to Jabo and eats a W right in front of his LASIK improved eyeballs.

These could all not hit and the Steelers could win 3-0 for all I care. I just want to stay in contention for the 1 seed matchup on Christmas day.

Walk in your trap, take over your trap. #HereWeGo