Martavis Bryant wants to return to Steelers next season

The small number of players who made themselves available to reporters Monday (Roethlisberger, Bell and Brown did not speak, nor did head coach Mike Timlin) had mixed opinions on how destructive all the talk and tweets were that emanated from their locker room and podiums for weeks, which suggested the Steelers were laser-locked on an AFC championship game rematch with New England. “All we did was feed on the fuel that everybody was providing, the media, everybody was talking about how they’re going to run through us, it’s not going to be like last (time)”.

With the 16-year dynasty that Bill Belichick and Tom Brady have built, it is sometimes easy to assume the Patriots are just going to cruise to victory every season. Most teams like to play zone coverage against Tom Brady, in fear that they will be beat deep and Brady will go over the top.

“It’s been an awesome year”, Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles said, “and we want to keep it going”. “We got our work cut out for us”.

“But it was like, okay, if we get an opportunity, we’re gonna give it our best shot”. They have a great pass rush, which helps the corners a lot. But Tennessee faltered down the stretch as the Patriots defense swarmed the third-year quarterback and sacked him a Patriots playoff-record eight times. But Mariota said it was no excuse.

“This is not a team where you can have any lapses”, he said.

As for the organization, Dareus said, the Bills treated him like “a nobody”.

During the Divisional Round, 10 players with Alabama football roots had their seasons ended, leaving 10 still in the playoffs.

“It’s just stupid. It’s just not what you do”, DeCastro said. “Obviously, this is the blueprint”. This advances the Patriots into the AFC Championship Game for the seventh consecutive year.

“Physical guys, they’ve got a lot of length”, Dorsett said. Blake [Bortles] has had a good season, so that’s really why they are in this game.

The Patriots have beaten the Jaguars seven straight times since that matchup, including a 51-17 beatdown the last time these teams met in Week 3 of the 2015 season.

Leonard Fournette looked like a star earlier this season, scoring six touchdowns in his first six National Football League games.

Roethlisberger has 18 first downs on 19 QB sneaks during his career (highest success rate – 94.7 percent – of any QB over 10 attempts since 2004). On their second possession, the Titans scored a touchdown, thus leaving the Patriots to play from behind.

But Gronkowski said it’s not something that is even registering right now.

KDKA-TV and Heinz Field officials sent the IP address to the FBI to track the threat, which federal authorities traced to Worldwide Clinical Trials in San Antonio, the affidavit said. They have had the best defense and that is always a challenge when you go up against those guys. But they controlled the game from the outset with their running and short passing game. “We knew we were going to have to be efficient, hold on to the ball for a little bit, so we did it”. “We were giving up too much, especially on early downs”.

“We can not seem to get the job done”, Brown said.

“(Brady) definitely outplayed us tonight”.