Quote (jadeoshbogosh @ Jan 7 2018 08:19pm)
Saw you guys arguing, went to smoke, and this is EXACTLY what I thought when I was going over the matchup in my head. Jacksonville is a better team than I've been willing to admit this season. While I believe they're capable of keeping many teams under 10 points, Pittsburgh when they're playing even meh, is not one of them. I know they already stomped them bad once, but I think we can all admit that Pitt just had their worst game of the year that week, and that shit can happen to anyone (Broncos v Seattle always comes to mind when thinking of an amazing offense shitting the bed). Bortles also looked fucking awful today. If he can even play at a game manager level, and Jacksonville's defense does what they've done almost every week this year (minus against the God that is Jimmy G), they've got a good chance at winning.
If NE gets through Tennessee, which also isn't a certain, I like our chances of beating either Pitt or Jacksonville, but I think Jacksonville has the better team to beat NE. If they go after Brady HARD, they could destroy us.
We held 9 teams to 10 points or less this season, not counting this playoff game.
It's really getting old hearing the excuse that the other team didn't play up to their level vs us, when our Defense has consistently shut teams down all season long. It hasn't just been a week here, or there. This Defense has been great for the majority of the year, but some of you still give them no credit. Sure other teams have bad games and it's just not their day, but that's not the case here. You don't do what this Defense has done this year by having other teams only playing poorly consistently.
Our worst games on Defense this season have come from QBs who have mobility.
Quote (fuzzy159 @ Jan 7 2018 08:28pm)
Steelers have a pretty under the radar pass rush this season.
They actually led the league in sacks and set a new franchise record with 56. Jags were 2nd I think.
If there is a rematch with Pitt and NE I think it will be just like last game in terms of how close the score will be and it being decided late in the 4th.
After watching the Jags today I really like the Steelers chances next week.
Yup the Steelers passed us in sacks in the final week of the regular season. They got 6 sacks against the Browns and beat us by 1 (56 vs 55).
Steelers are obviously way better than the Bills, but I'm more confident in this team going against a non mobile QB. This pass rush should absolutely be able to get after Big Ben again, just like we did in week 5. He's hard to bring down, but they don't have to worry about him bootlegging out of the pocket etc.