One thing I love about this game is you get two faces of the AFC going.
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There’s more to comb through for the Giants-Packers game in Green Bay Sunday, while the Lions-Seahawks’ game is a pretty clean slate … while full of plenty of intriguing storylines itself.
Ajayi will likely have to have another big game for the Dolphins to emerge victorious in this one. Fast-forward to present day where Beyoncé is dominating the pop scene without Kelly and Michelle and the Dolphins are without their franchise quarterback, Ryan Tannehill. If so, can he play poised and smart? If he plays like he did in his first start following Tannehill’s injury, Moore might be nervous early and then settle down. And while he has gotten a lot of critics (including myself), he has been solid.
Running back Jay Ajayi could keep the Dolphins in the game for a while, but the Steelers should win a high-scoring affair that surpasses the over/under of 47.
The Dolphins are 2-1 with Moore starting. Same goes for Tannehill.
A benefit of Rogers coming on strong late in the season is Pittsburgh used him and Brown in route concepts together.
Yet that doesn’t mean that Gase, in his first rookie season as a head coach, and his team feel they have no hope. His receiving targets on the outside in Jarvis Landry, DeVante Parker and Kenny Stills can all stretch the field vertically.
The Dolphins are heavy underdogs largely because the Steelers are usually dominant at home and because they have reeled off seven-in-a-row and because, well, they bring with them an impressive January pedigree that has helped produce six Super Bowl titles.
Miami’s defense is also banged up, missing five starters last week.
The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Miami Dolphins enjoy rich postseason histories. The Dolphins subsequently signed Wallace to a long-term contract, only to trade him to the Minnesota Vikings two years later for several draft picks in the 2015 NFL Draft.
Sounds ugly – for Miami fans, that is.
I expect this game to be decided in the fourth quarter, a time when the Dolphins have excelled this season. For one, the Steelers will be at home, where Big Ben seems to excel and play his best football.
A healthy Pittsburgh offense against a “broken” Miami defense. If you’re smashing the run, the bootleg really is irrelevant because we’re not biting on run fakes. No team likes going there for obvious reasons. The Steelers are still salty about losing 30-15 in Miami in Week 6. When these two teams met back in Week 6, the Steelers lost 30-15 as a 7.5-point road favorite in Miami. “I’d like to be as comfortable as possible”.
“For us on the back end, whether it is Matt Moore whether it’s Tannehill it doesn’t make a difference for our preparation”, defensive back Ross Cockrell said. He ran for 200 on Buffalo the second time he played those guys.
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The Steelers were cruising right along when they traveled to Miami in mid-October, sitting at 4-1. “Things like that. I think they understand how I see things now and use it to their advantage to get open and catch balls underneath”.
