Cris Collinsworth: Amarius Mims May Be the KEY to Joe Burrow's Success on Sunday vs STeelers

So the exciting thing about the Bengals is that Amarius Mims has become, I'm not going to compare him to Anthony Munoz. That's not who he is. Nobody is. So, you know, but Amarius Mims has become that guy that can block one-on-one. And so when you do that, so, you know, you take him one-on-one and you take four guys to block three or four, depending on what's happening. The problem is that one-on-one this week is Amarius Mims against T.J. Watt. Now, they will take T.J. and move him over to the other side a little bit. But it is really, really difficult to say, I got T.J. Watt all day and nothing's going to happen. Now, he did well against them the last time out. But for all the stuff we want to talk about, Aaron Rodgers and Joe Burrow and these receivers and all of that, I think that matchup. May well decide the game. If they can truly leave Mims over there on T.J. Watt and help the rest of it, because Pittsburgh, they're a blitz-happy team, and, man, they're so good at it. I think they had seven sacks or something against the Browns, and what you see is that in that game, the first three or four sacks that they had in the game, the guy who actually got the pressure, who got the initial pressure, didn't get the sack. It was the next wave. They came in and got him, and so it's challenging. It's really challenging to beat this defense. So I'm a throw-the-ball guy. They know it. I talk about it all the time. I love that Joe throws it 45 times. I was, too. I don't know what happened to me. I caught a disease or something. I don't know what. But when you describe that, I'm like, okay, well, this is one of those games, AFC North game. You're going to have to lean on the run some. You take some pressure off the offensive line, so Mims isn't pass-protecting for 52 snaps and one-on-one. Is that the case? Do you think Chase Brown and Samaje Perine and getting the run going some is important? I'm trying not to be a caveman anymore. The Packers and the Bengals are making me rethink everything that I've ever believed about football in my life. The one thing that was kind of interesting for me, and Chase Brown's a good player, I don't want to, but Samaje Perine at the end of that Atlanta game came in there and like Like that four-minute close-the-game kind of stuff. And I mean, there's nothing wrong when defenses have to go lighter in the box, as they say, because you got to double team everybody on the Bengals. You know, it just feels like everybody's got to get double teamed. But, you know, but especially Ja'Marr and T. And so you're going to be lighter in here. Right. So if you could put a 240 pound. truck and hand them the football back there. And it really changes things because now you have to decide, are you willing to let Samaje Perine run the ball through a lighter box in the middle there and do that to keep the double teams? My guess is they will. So it may well be if they don't run it with a six man box, they could end up with five in there and really load up on the back end. I just don't see any scenario where Pittsburgh lets the Bengals get the ball consistently deep over their heads the way it was a week ago.