You don’t win a lot of games in which you turn the ball over three times and don’t get the ball back at all. Add in those turnovers, all three of them, coming within your own 40-yard line on top of that, and you can see where the problems might arise.
That’s where the Pittsburgh Steelers found themselves last night after giving up the football three times, just in the first half, against the Cincinnati Bengals, which spotted them fantastic field position time and time again. They began three drives at the Steelers’ 20, 38, and 26 off of those turnovers, scoring a net 17 points as a result.