Would a bye hurt the Steelers in regards to they seem to always come out slow after the time off
Would a bye hurt the Steelers in regards to they seem to always come out slow after the time off
I lost a bet about Najee gaining 1300 yards.
"Our head coach has failed to win a playoff game for seven years in a row. His game day strategy, culture of divas, in game decisions, clock management, player evaluation, hires, and affinity with sub par starters at RB, P, and OL are holding the Steelers back. That standard remains the standard"
Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.
I think that this is the best case scenario for us.
We need to beat the Pats and hope that the Jags take care of business.
I'd much prefer that NE has to play an extra game. In the case that the Rats win out, the Pats would have to beat the Ravens, then the Jags, then Us. That's a rough road the the SB.
But, we need to win the weekend. Otherwise, maybe it's us that has to beat Baltimore and Jacksonville before going to NE.
I lost a bet about Najee gaining 1300 yards.
"Our head coach has failed to win a playoff game for seven years in a row. His game day strategy, culture of divas, in game decisions, clock management, player evaluation, hires, and affinity with sub par starters at RB, P, and OL are holding the Steelers back. That standard remains the standard"
I'm trying to sort all the playoff scenarios out and while I will speculate - please don't think for one second I don't want the #1 seed. having every game guaranteed at Heinz is and should be the goal.
Having said that, would the #2 seed possibly be a better path??
Let's set the table of pats #1, steelers #2, jags #3
4,5 and 6 will likely result in some combination of chiefs, chargers, ravens, titans or bills. let's say the chiefs hold it together and win the AFC west and the #4. of #5 and #6 I'd say the likely candidates are the titans and the ravens - with the rats as the probably #6.
so in the wildcard round you'll have
jags vs. rats
chiefs vs. titans
If the rats win they go to NE. Jags win they come to us. if the rats win, then we care about whatever combination is left of chiefs, chargers or titans. if the bills are in it's because the rats are out.
we often talk about playing and beating a team 3 times in a season. we've done it before with the rats - but it's always a tough game.
but with 3 weeks to go this is too complex to sort it all out.
it's just looking at all those teams and what are the most favorable matchups - i tend to see better matchups for us against the chiefs, charges, titans and even the jags (despite recent history). I think there's something to be said for a scrappy #6 seed going to NE in the divisional round and taking them out. allowing us to face possibly the west champ or the titans first, and THEN having the AFCCG at heinz.
but then it may well be the rats at home for the rights to the superbowl.
and with that i've gone cross-eyed.
so screw it, win out - take the #1 and eventually lombardi #7. then i can say whatever path that was, was the best one......
but as painful as playoff scenario analysis can be - over on the bungles boards they're talking about the draft......
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