Losing to the Cincinnati Bengals is bad enough. Being swept is worse. But when the Bengals accused the Pittsburgh Steelers of giving up, that’s a gut-punch to a different level. Over the past 20 years, the shoe’s usually been on the other foot. The Steelers being the dominant team of the series, the ones making the Bengals tap out. Minkah Fitzpatrick won’t be consumed by it but he hasn’t forgotten what was said a year ago.
“Of course you do,” Fitzpatrick told reporters via Steelers Live when asked if he thinks about last year’s sweep. “Especially in the fashion that we lost.