The Steelers made the playoffs with the help of Buffalo’s sweep of their two games against the Jets, including the season finale.
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“Over the last half of the season, the Packers have left a bad taste in the mouths of many”, Westgate Las Vegas sports book director Jay Kornegay said.
Doubts remain about Washington’s record against good teams, as they have not beaten a single team that finished with a record better than 8-8.
If Bakhtiari can’t play, Mike McCarthy said earlier in the week that Josh Sitton would stay at left guard. “All three are going to be hard for completely different reasons”.
– Tandler believes the Redskins’ pass rush is getting hot at the right time, too. I think a big part of his greatness is the emotion he plays with and how he plays.
It’s wild card round and Inside the Playbook takes a look at the four intriguing match-ups that will decide who moves on and who goes home.
Seattle (10-6) is the No. 6 seed in the NFC but playing better than anyone in the conference right now and is the two-time NFC champion. The Packers have been in a bit of a tailspin since a 6-0 start to open the season, dropping six of their last 10 games. Green Bay has lost its last two games, including by 30 points to Arizona.
Defensive lineman Calais Campbell said what they did for those teams is still fresh in their mind, as is much of what they did last season for Washington. But if he goes for the long ball, the safeties need to pounce on it. DeAngelo Hall and Dashon Goldson (who has been limited at practice all week with a shoulder and ribs injury, and is questionable for the matchup) can’t get beat deep down the field, and corners Bashaud Breeland and Will Blackmon need to shutdown Cobb and Jones as best as they can. “So it’s good to be able to see film on them facing us”.
The Green Bay Packers have announced their opponents for the 2016 regular season.
The phrase, “be careful what you wish for” comes to mind. Cousins led the team to four straight wins to close the regular season and clinch the NFC East title, while the Packers limp into the playoffs on the heels of two loses. It will be challenging, but I think they will put it all together Sunday.
Notable: Packers were 3-4 in seven games against playoff teams, including 1-3 on the road.
Micah Hyde doesn’t know exactly how he corralled a one-handed interception off Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater last Sunday. This is a Redskins team that one month ago lost to Matt Cassel and the Dallas Cowboys at home. That has to be a concern against a Washington team that has racked up 14 sacks over its past three.
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That’s why, as the Cardinals head into the weekend, they do so with very little care as to what happens, at least with regards to who they will play when they next take the field.
