Ultimately, it will be a battle between Pittsburgh’s dynamic offense and Kansas City’s dynamic defense, and in watching Pittsburgh last week, I don’t think the Kansas City will be able to get enough stops. Every player listed above has either contributed to big defensive plays, shredded defensive fronts, or been one of the many reliable targets for Matt Ryan.
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If the Chiefs can avoid getting into a shootout, their probability of winning increases significantly because of their tendency to avoid mistakes and play a short, ball-control offence.
“I got a great sense of great things coming”, Wilson told reporters Wednesday.
The Steelers will roll out one of the NFL’s most potent offenses featuring quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, receiver Antonio Brown and running back Le’Veon Bell.
Needing just a field goal to win, quarterback Matt Ryan threw a lovely, high-arching rainbow, 40-yards down the middle of the field to Julio Jones. It’s a good thing for them that their offense is so prolific because their defense can only be considered subpar.
Jones dominated Sherman in the regular-season meeting, with seven catches for 139 yards and touchdowns. “He’s had terrific history of making big plays, so we certainly know what Devin is capable of”, Quinn said. Except it does, because these two guys have a back story from earlier this year. “Kind of like woke us up, but it definitely made us hungry too because when you feel like you have a great team that should win it all and you lose … and you sit there in the offseason and watch the other teams win, it gives you that hunger to come into the next season prepared and I think that’s what happened”. The Dallas Cowboys (13-3), fielding star rookies Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott, hope to avenge their 2014 loss to the Green Bay Packers (11-6) and make the NFC championship for the first time since winning it all in 1995. Green Bay’s second-half performance last week against Giants – a team Dallas struggled with – can not be understated.
Patriots: New England needs to not get in their own way, which for them should be pretty easy.
The Steelers, Chiefs, Falcons, Cowboys, and Packers have all been up and down in recent years, but all had very solid seasons in 2016. He finished second in the league in TD passes and yards passing. WR Julio Jones second in National Football League with 1,409 yards receiving despite missing two games with toe injury. But Carroll said his lead back who gained a Seahawks postseason-record 161 yards against Detroit is fine. The young defense features a group led by De’Vondre Campbell, Deion Jones, Vic Beasley Jr. and Keanu Neal. RB Devonta Freeman ran for 1,079 yards, his second straight 1,000-yard season. Atlanta’s defense leaves a lot to be desired, while Wilson and the Seahawks have been struggling a bit of late. Fantasy Tip: Atlanta WR Taylor Gabriel’s seven TDs, including one rushing, were one more than All-Pro Jones. The total has gone over in five of the Packers’ last six games on the road.
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Information from the Associated Press and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution was used in this story.
