CINCINNATI (WXIX) - GREEN BAY — Four days from now, if the Cincinnati Bengals beat the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday Night Football, it’ll feel like the Bengals are starting their charge, making the most of their trade for quarterback Joe Flacco and setting themselves up for a hopeful second half of the season.

If the Bengals lose to the Steelers on Thursday night, the Bengals’ season will feel over.

On Sunday at Lambeau Field, the Green Bay Packers beat the Bengals, 28-17. The greater meaning of this game won’t be clear until Friday morning.

Either the bounce back second half against the Packers’ was the start of Flacco’s season-saving effort for a Bengals team that currently has a 2-4 record, or it was a footnote in a season where the Bengals’ offense still just might not be good en

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