As if he hasn’t relived it enough in his nightmares.
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Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith completed 30-of-50 passes for 287 yards and two touchdowns while being intercepted once.
Roethlisberger always has had the luxury of great physical gifts to make game-changing plays. They don’t get caught up in a lot of this. Brown has three consecutive playoff starts with 100 or more receiving yards, one shy of the National Football League record. The brilliant display was also more than three months ago.
The other AFC game isn’t expected to be almost as close.
Expect Bell to hit a few metaphorical deep balls against the Chiefs, making up for the Roethlisberger mistakes predicted above. “For us, offensively, being able to use cadences to our advantage”.
Roethlisberger has thrown eight of his 15 interceptions on the season in his last five games, including a pair against the Dolphins.
Moving the game to the night affects schedules for the fans, the teams and NBC, which is broadcasting the game. They wound up arriving the same day as the game, rather than travelling the day before like normal, and proceeded to win 24-20.
“When we first heard we were going to play the Steelers I think everybody was kind of happy because nobody likes to get beat the way we got beat”, Duvernay-Tardif said during a conference call. We’re excited about it. “They’re going to have a mindset similar to what we had against Miami”.
Luckily, sunny weather and shovels appeared to save the field, which can feel like concrete when frozen, and the game against the Oakland Raiders went on as planned.
“Obviously turning the ball over on my part, can’t do it”, Roethlisberger said. “They’re loud. It’s one of those special stadiums where they really take pride in it”.
Since then, Kansas City is 0-4 at home in the playoffs and 1-8 overall in the post-season. Instead of a 1 p.m. ET kickoff when the West Coast is still waking up and the Midwest is at church, the network gets an evening start time that presumably maximizes viewership. “We don’t overanalyze that”.
The Chiefs only had 27 sacks during the regular season…but that was mostly without linebacker and supreme sack artist Justin Houston, who missed 11 games.
Both NFC playoff games feature a 4.5-point betting line with the home team favored. I think probably (Kelce) and (Washington’s) Jordan Reed are the best as far as receivers playing that position.
Certainly, the Chiefs don’t need to relive every snap of that prime-time encounter, their most lopsided loss of Andy Reid’s four seasons on the Chiefs’ sideline. But he also had a 78-yard punt return touchdown against the Steelers brought back by a penalty.
There’s no time for revenge either said Tomlin. “It is January. You have to take care of the football. It’s just a matter of covering and tackling”. If the Steelers avoid costly turnovers, they should advance. “I don’t mean while sitting in traffic, but one or two accidents can have a chain reaction that we don’t need”.
They were minus-2 when they faced the Steelers in October. As everyone knows, Roethlisberger’s home to road splits with regards to quarterback rating and interceptions is too much of a trend to ignore. They have a six-game winning streak on the road.
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The Chiefs’ offence faces a stiff challenge.
