| Final - 11.22.2009 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | OT | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pittsburgh Steelers
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0 | 17 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 24 |
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Kansas City Chiefs
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7 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 27 |
Steelers Upset By Chiefs: Initial Reaction
by drinkyourmilkshake on Nov 22, 2009 4:24 PM EST
280 comments
Wow, credit goes to the Chiefs for hanging around and being in the position to win the football game, but the Steelers beat themselves this week with costly turnovers, poor play calling, and another huge special teams gaffe. This team has some major work to do if they intend to make any sort of push toward the playoffs. Next week we face a hungry Baltimore Ravens team that is 5-5 so let's take the next few hours to vent our frustrations and the crew here at BTSC will attempt to put together some content while we mourn this horrible, horrible loss.
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Pittsburgh Steelers (6-3) @ Kansas City Chiefs (2-7) - BTSC Week 11 Open Thread (2nd Half)
by drinkyourmilkshake on Nov 22, 2009 2:29 PM EST
682 comments
After a rocky start with another kick-off return for a touchdown, the Steelers have started to put it all together. The Steelers haven't allowed any points on defense and Ben Roethlisberger has thrown two touchdowns.
Hopefully Pittsburgh will close this one out with some more solid running from Rashard Mendenhall who has looked great so far today!
Here we GO!
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Pittsburgh Steelers (6-3) @ Kansas City Chiefs (2-7) - BTSC Week 11 Open Thread (1st Half)
by Blitzburgh on Nov 22, 2009 1:58 AM EST
502 comments
Time for the Pittsburgh Steelers to start a new winning streak after their 5 game winning streak was snapped last week at home against the Cincinnati Bengals. Not too many better opponents to do so than against the Kansas City Chiefs. That said, this is the NFL and the Chiefs have plenty to feel good about coming off last week's week win, not to mention dismissing the high maintenance Larry Johnson close to two weeks ago. At the end of the day though, the Steelers can and should overwhelm the Chiefs if they play anything close to a clean game in all three phases of the game.
You know the routine. Go Steelers!
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Pregame Zone Blitz: Steelers at Chiefs
by ncoolong on Nov 21, 2009 8:38 AM EST
39 comments
Considering the Steelers' opponent this week, the hapless Kansas City Chiefs, it almost feels like a lose-lose situation. It's got letdown game written all over it. Even if the Steelers win, it will no doubt bring back the pain of a tough and rare AFC North loss to Cincinnati. PZB is going to demonstrate why this isn't a trap game and why a win is a win is a win.
Here's what our opponents are saying.
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Pittsburgh Steelers (6-3) @ Kansas City Chiefs (2-7) - Getting To Know Pittsburgh's Week 11 Opponent
by Blitzburgh on Nov 20, 2009 7:55 AM EST
55 comments
It's been a few weeks since we had a little Q&A with the SBN blog of the Pittsburgh Steelers upcoming opponent. Let's get back to it with a few questions from me for Arrowhead Pride, an immensely fast paced and popular blog. Considering just how sorry the Chiefs have been the past two years, it's remarkable just how vibrant and heavily populated a site Chris Thorman and his brother Joel (who I exchanged these questions with) have built. My questions to Joel's answers should be up on AP at some point soon. - Blitz -
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BTSC: Matt Cassell hasn't quite played like a quarterback worthy of the big free agent contract he got this offseason. Tell us a bit about how he's played and what Chiefs fans think his potential is as the rest of the roster on offense improves moving forward.
Arrowhead Pride: Cassel's hasn't played the best season in '09 but I think to a degree that was expected. There was no way he was going to match the numbers he put up in New England so I think that was an unrealistic expectation. The fact that he hasn't imploded in a situation with so many things going against him is impressive. He's not putting up the numbers yet but when the rest of the offense catches up to him he should play well.
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Week 11 NFL Picks
by Blitzburgh on Nov 20, 2009 12:42 AM EST
10 comments
We've got some more Pittsburgh Steelers/Kansas City Chiefs content coming before their Sunday matchup at Arrowhead Field, but on to my weekly picks. Been doing so well I figured I'd continue on.
- This would be a signature win for the new Todd Haley regime, but I don't see it happening. In fact, I like the Steelers to come out angry and play a ferocious and clean game on both sides of the ball. Here's to hoping special teams holds up their end of the bargain. I like Pittsburgh to win big.
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A Reason For Every Super Bowl Championship Why Steelers Fans Should Relax
by Blitzburgh on Nov 19, 2009 12:47 AM EST
69 comments
This isn't really a state of the union type post, just several reasons why I feel pretty darn good about the Pittsburgh Steelers and their chances at at least returning to the AFC Championship game this year. Do I believe this year's team is as good as last year's? I think they can be. They're just not there yet. And of course, a rash of injuries in the next 6 weeks could derail the team's chances of even making the playoffs, let alone making a return trip to the Super Bowl. Assuming though that the Steelers don't lose multiple players of Harrison, Ward, Big Ben or Polamalu's caliber, I like their chances just fine of playing playoff football games in January. Here's six reasons, one for every Lombardi Trophy resting in the organization's trophy case.
1) The defense is rounding in to form and should continue to do so. The Steelers shot themselves in the foot at the end of last Sunday's loss against the Bengals - James Harrison's penalty immediately comes to mind; the inability to bring down Bernard Scott on first contact hurt too. We're not used to seeing the Steelers have opposing teams close out games against them with the running game. Cincinnati didn't exactly do that like we did to Denver the previous Monday, but they certainly increased their chances of holding on to the slim lead by gobbling up some clock and forcing the Steelers to score a TD to win rather than just get a FG to tie.
Anyway, the defense still played very, very well for much of the game. Now if the special teams wouldn't stop handing away points, and if the offense would just get back to executing in the red zone like they were to start the year.
Here's the defense's number through 10 games (league rankings in parenthesis)
Points per game (team total): 17.4 (6th)
Points per game (defense only): 12.7 (1st)
Yards per game: 277.4 (2nd)
Rushing Yards/G: 69.3 (1st)
Passing Yards/G: 208.1 (12th)
3rd Down %: 41 % (24th)
Sacks: 25 (t-4th)
Interceptions: 8 (t-16th)
Forced Fumbles: 8 (t-18th)
Fumbles Recovered: 5 (t-20th)
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Don't Come Around Here No More, Phil Simms
by Blitzburgh on Nov 18, 2009 5:37 PM EST
27 comments
I know I'm not alone on this one, but it dawned on me that the Pittsburgh Steelers never seem to play well when CBS sends its top commentating team of Jim Nantz and Phil Simms to call Pittsburgh's games. So just for kicks, I went about checking the NFL TV Distribution Maps from the past three years to see just how well or poorly the Steelers have fared with Simms on the call during the Mike Tomlin era. It's not pretty (playoffs not included).
Week 3, 2009: Pittsburgh at Cincinnati - Loss
Week 11, 2009: Cincinnati at Pittsburgh - Loss
Week 10, 2008: Indianapolis at Pittsburgh - Loss
Week 11, 2008: San Diego at Pittsburgh - Win
Week 15, 2008: Pittsburgh at Baltimore - Win
Week 16, 2008: Pittsburgh at Tennessee - Loss
Week 10, 2007: Cleveland at Pittsburgh - Win
Week 1, 2007: Pittsburgh at New York Jets - Loss
Week 14, 2007: Pittsburgh at New England - Loss
Week 17, 2007: Pittsburgh at Baltimore - Loss
3-7! No good. Heck, they've only lost 13 games in the past three season.
Go away Mr. Simms! And Jim, stick to the Masters and March Madness and we'll have no issues. Capiche? Cool.
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