Is Burrow MVP Favorite with Win vs. Steelers?

I think you can make the argument that Joe Burrow is the MVP of the league. At this point, he has played incredibly well over the course of the last month. Both his receivers, Jamar Chase and Tee Higgins, are operating at an incredibly high level. But for the Bengals, it's been more than just that. It's been the way that the other elements of the team have come through. The offensive line's playing better than it has probably since Cincinnati's Super Bowl year, and this may be the best offensive line that Joe Burrow's ever played behind. As a result, the run game has been productive when they needed it to be. And the defense, look, it looks like they hit on a lot of the guys they brought in in the offseason, be it Dexter Lawrence or Boye Mafe. Cafe or earth. Or Brian Cook on the back end. And, um... It's a much improved group. It's not like a Minnesota. There's not a Seattle, but it's a much improved group. And they don't need to be great because the offense already is. Then you have the Steelers, who I think everybody who saw them in the summer had an idea of what they could be. But with the age in the roster, your question was always going to be, can they make it through? Can they stay healthy? It's not like they've been unscathed, but they've gotten some good luck injury-wise. And you see now the vision, which is... We have a lot of experienced guys on defense, guys like Jalen Ramsey and Jamel Dean and Patrick Queen and TJ Watt and Alex Highsmith and Cam Hayward and on and on and on and on. Ditto on offense, right? So Pittman's been hurt, but you got DK Metcalf. You've got Rico Dowdle coming in in his seventh year. Aaron Rodgers, of course, being a huge part of that equation. Pat Fryer is an older player now. So you've got all this experience. You've got these complex schemes with Mike McCarthy and Brian Angelico running the offense. And Patrick Graham running the defense. And you're able to leverage all of that experience with how multiple you're able to be on both sides of the ball. And again, like it may be a narrow path that they're walking, but for right now, that presents a very big challenge for the Bengals. So this should be a fascinating matchup, a kind of. Which one is for real type of matchup? Maybe they're both for real. I tend to think they both are. But we'll know a lot more when we get to midnight on Sunday after those two are done. Should be a really, really good game.