Pittsburgh Steelers vs Kansas City in National Football League playoffs 2017

The Kansas City Chiefs ranked as a top 10 defense in 2016, allowing just 19 points a game. Tyreek Hill has been nothing short of stupendous this season and has stolen games for the Chiefs on offense and special teams multiple times this season.

“Phenomenal”, he said. “The sea of red was here, man, they were thick”.

Even with all the spread offenses and the more pass-happy NFL, Greene still believes games and championships are won in the trenches and on the ground. The Raiders never recovered and the Chiefs were able to slide right into a playoff bye week in spite of losing to the Tennessee Titans four weeks ago.

While the Steelers were high on Ayers, Hill has proven to easily be the best returner from this year’s draft class and was selected to the Pro Bowl. Also, Kansas City got better over the course of the year.

Bell is the team MVP for a reason and he showed it last week in a monstrous way.

If the Steelers can limit turnovers and continue the strategy that has been working as of late, they have a very good opportunity to come out with a victory. “We’ve made plays like that before in that situation”.

The Steelers present a unique challenge. Quarterback Alex Smith said it stayed with the team. A few have receivers more productive than Antonio Brown. Pittsburgh’s defense also held Dolphin running back Jay Ajayi to just 33 rushing yards.

Fans, teammates and football experts alike have all marveled at Le’Veon Bell’s unique start and stop running style that he finds so much success with.

Anthony Chickillo (ankle), Robert Golden (ankle) and Ricardo Mathews (ankle) all will be monitored as the week progresses to see if they can come back and play in the game at Kansas City, all having missed the Wild Card game last Sunday.

“I think hindsight is always 20/20”, guard David DeCastro said. “And it’s easier said than done”.

I know, not exactly going out on a limb here, but the point is, that 43-14 Steelers victory over the Chiefs at Heinz Field that day was an anomaly, so we’re throwing it out when breaking down and picking a victor in this week’s game.

Bell’s first carry that night went for just two yards, with the Steelers already up 15-0. This is the second of two AFC Divisional games.

Roethlisberger, by the way, remained in that game with it well out of hand too, throwing four times on a drive that ended with DeAngelo Williams’ touchdown run that put the Steelers up 36 points midway through the fourth quarter. Kansas City S Eric Berry had two interception returns for TDs this season, giving him five for career.

“I just got tackled last week”, It wasn’t anything big, my foot just happened to be under me a little bit and get twisted around a little bit”.

When the Steelers game plan for any opponent, two of the most important components of their preparation are efficiency in the red zone and limiting turnovers.

The Chiefs’ top pass rusher had surgery in February to fix a balky anterior cruciate ligament and did not play until late November. They are No. 4 in the league in kickoff return yard average and No. 10 in total kickoff return yards.

Part of what makes that so hard is that Roethlisberger’s arm and ability to extend plays mean the entire field has to be defended, but the Steelers’ various sets and timing mean they can bust short passes into big gains. He is explosive and he attacks the line of scrimmage with ferocity. Now I’m just going to do whatever I can to help us win a Super Bowl.

Peters generally lines up on the left side of the defense. He’s got to get past a lot of fast guys to do that. “We’re going to go out and handle business”. He doesn’t do this much.

He told them to believe.