Sunday Morning Sermon: Final Thoughts On Week 12 Steelers at Chiefs

I think it’s his time. They can play out of 2 TE tonight, and as long as they account for Hali, no one else there concerns me. Run the ball, but I think they can use Saunders on the goal line.

…and neither has shown a consistency with doing so, preferring to try to force their own pre-conceived game plans onto the actions of the opponent.

If I recall correctly, in 2009 KC stacked the box, a game plan the Browns emulated, both to the detriment of the Steelers.

I’m feelin a bit concerned about this game, in that it has the makings of a trap game; this year teams coming off the bye have not fared well, and the Steelers are notorious in both starting cold, and playing down.

Hopefully, with bellys full from TG, and bodies rested, we don’t start off cold and slow. Instead, (I hope) we come out blasting like we did against NE and take this game away from KC within the first quarter (and keep it away).

…the Steelers (and Steeler Nation) need to take care of their own business. Our fate is solely in our own hands. We relegated ourselves to Wildcard status by losing to the Ratbirds twice (a “sweep” in Skev’s parlance) and the Texans.

The Ravens’ games are immaterial to the Steelers; they can easily lose even a Wildcard if they don’t tend to their own games. If they win out, then a playoff position is highly likely regardless of what the Ratbirds do, but if they lose games,

We are going to the playoffs, we will be the 5th or possibly 6th seed

I wrote what I wrote specifically to go against this line of thinking.

Lot of games left for both teams. I’d go as far as saying I don’t think either of them will win out. Things change quite a bit in this league week-to-week. Hell, Cleveland’s a lot better than we like to believe. Let Baltimore worry about Baltimore.

In poker terms, we call this a freeroll. We are going to the playoffs, we will be the 5th or possibly 6th seed unless Baltimore loses more games than we do. IF this happens, then we jump up THREE OR FOUR seeds in the AFC Playoffs. This is absolutely huge and this should be more important than the steelers beating the lowly Cheifs to maintain status quo at the 5th seed. We. need. baltimore. to. lose. Period.

You realize if Pittsburgh loses tonight, Baltimore’s up a full game plus a tiebreaker, right? That means they have to lose two more games. It’s ridiculous to suggest Baltimore losing is more important than Pittsburgh winning. That is NEVER true.

It says nothing of the fact that Baltimore has already won this week, so if we really do care about something more than this game, we should remember we fall a long ways out if we lose.

You don’t get in the playoffs with seven wins, so until they clinch a wild card spot and have a game against Baltimore, I don’t care what the Ravens do. We had our chance to be in the driver’s seat, and we didn’t get it done.

…What the Ravens do is immaterial. We consigned ourselves to the wildcard route by losing to them twice, and, given the number of teams with the same record as us, all we can and should worry about is taking each game one at a time, and NEVER looking past the current opponent.

KC – a trap game if there ever was one
Cincy – against a team that played us tough, w/o their best receiver for most of the game
SF – only let the Ratbirds score 16 points; better performance against them than we had
Cleveland (2x) – a team with nothing to lose, no expectations, and every incentive to play the spoiler.

With that facing us, you want us to care about what the Ravens do?

You’re about four years late on that story, pal

Good morning. Have some coffee and ……..BACON!

He played out of position much of the year. While that makes up for some of it, he could stand to make a few more plays, inside or out.

Could say that about several Steelers defensive players right now…

He’s been pretty good

Well, if they played Casey Hampton outside, he’d look lost too. That’s not his primary job. Someone had to fill in.

Seeing the way Sylvester played, I don’t think you can even consider Farrior not being on the roster next year. There really isn’t anyone else. They’ll likely spend a pick on that position toward the top of the draft, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they looked at a vet or two.

lol Yeah, I remember his first play, I literally said, “ohhhhh….k….” Next play, I sort of threw my towel to the side. It went downhill from there.

play last week even more disturbing.