Officials are more likely to call that stuff (or anything) with PIT on the road. They are the 2nd most penalized road team only to Oakland.

Absolutely, set the nasty and physical tone early

Steelers open as 2.5 pt favorites.

Steelers are very beatable. Moore is the reason Miami lost today more than Pitts D being elite. We've beaten good teams all year, this time they're in our house. Chiefs got this. Our weapons are better than Miami's. Our D is better than Miami's.

I said this in another thread.

If this offense has the same rhythm it has played with in the last 2 games, and Smith continues to get the ball into his playmaker's hands in good spots, as he has done in those 2 games, I like the Chiefs chances.

That gives me comfort.

Matt Moore is Nick Foles. He can makes some impressive throws, but he holds the ball way too damn long.

Uh oh...

Ben's throwing arm just took a shot.

Gonna be a lot of Steeler fans. Tons of tickets online right now. Tons.

FYP :)

OMFG. Can't believe he said that! My feathers are so ruffled right now bro!

142 decibels mother ****er

Yeah, I'm afraid the resale market is going to destroy our HFA.

They were all over the stadium in 1993 too.

LMAO

The Chiefs are going to put an ass-whooping on Pittsburgh.

good. That's part of the deal with the #2 seed. Rest and the other teams get new injury/tweaks to deal with.

Yep. I guarantee you will see a few black and gold in the stands.

Steel Men Are Coming
 

why is that an uh oh?

Pitt will turn the ball over 3-4 times, and all the credit for the ass whooping will be because Pittsburgh played bad.


I really won't care, either. **** the experts.

Chiefs have never won a home Sunday playoff game.

It's officially ON! Bring it!

Yea... builds my confidence


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Icy mix next Sunday? Yikes. Be careful folks KC does a terrible job at treating it's steets. It's criminal.

My God.


That is a premium spread.

Tiny and I were talking about that earlier.

The forecast will probably change eleventy million times in the next 7 days.

This is gonna be fun. Proving ourselves will be fun.

we're due

No shit. Do you have a grand burning a hole in your pocket at the moment? Jump on that shit rite naow if you do.

Wow. Hoping the weather changes eleventy million times so it confuses and impares the chiefs and their fans! Unbelievable!

I know! I'm the worst fan ever!

Chiefs have only won two playoff games at Arrowhead ever. The last time against Pittsburgh during the '93 season.

This is a completely different team though.

Andy needs to lean in to his strengths - speed and mis-direction and hit the gas early and not let up. I posted in the Steelers-Phins thread that Andy has a tendency to wait for his opponent to come to him rather than attacking and while that will yield wins against lesser opponents, we need to just overwhelm them - attack downfield - and blunt their defensive pressure with mis-direction. A bunch of runs up the middle and short passes expecting YAC won't cut it.

Yes, but no vessel in which to bet it. I don't trust any online site.


I will be in Vegas in 2 weeks to bet the Chief in the conference championship game and SB, though.

(they beat the Raiders in the playoffs in the early 90's at Arrowhead)

Call up one of the sports books and do it over the phone, lol

Yep, and it was a baseball score......;)

You can do this?


OH SHIT.

I'm skeered.


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LMAO

I don't know you can for a fact, but I can't imagine Vegas turning away the potential for income. Where are all our degenerate gamblers at when you need them, anyway?

Paypal Hootie some cash. He'll place the bet for you.

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I'LL TAKE IT!!!

big rape is about to the rapee

Hey, I was at that game! It was my first Chiefs game and my first ever live football game. God, that was awesome. I still have the stub!

You are right -- We played them final week then the following week. I was at both those games. The splits site I'm looking at is telling me I'm in an alternate universe where that didn't happen...

So we're 2-5 at Arrowhead in the playoffs.

But I'd say this is probably the best team we've had since the last time we won.

If I'm on the Chiefs I'm PISSED about being a division champ underdog at home. USE THE ANGER!!!

Hey man. You're on the CP team here. No fan is any better or worse or more or less important than another.

You opened a can of worms.

Westgate has a ****ing app. Here we go!


****! You have to be in the state of Nevada to use! NOOOOOOOOO

All I do is win, amirite?

That's all you do.

I'm not sure if -16 is the biggest spread ever in a playoff game (it was the highest I could find), but NE is giving that to HOU next week.

I hear you -- but I'd much prefer Andy using Tyreek and Travis and Houston and Peters and Berry.

Steelers are dirty as ****. They even took one of their own guys out by accident they head hunt so much.

That would be good too

OK, you made me think of this...

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They are baiting all of the Pitt fans in with that line.

It's going to be a bloodbath.

Steel Men Are Coming
 

Well, it’s not what most Chiefs fans wanted, but the Pittsburgh Steelers are coming to Arrowhead Stadium for next Sunday’s AFC Divisional playoff game.

Fans likely remember running back Le’Veon Bell. He missed the first three games of the season but made his 2016 debut against the Chiefs and rushed for 144 yards in 18 carries on that night (when the Steelers won 43-14).

Bell’s regular-season numbers: 261 attempts, 1,268 yards, seven rushing touchdowns. He also caught 75 passes for 616 yards and a pair of scores. All told, that’s 1,884 total yards from scrimmage, an average of 157.0 yards, which was the best in the NFL. It was also the third-best in NFL history behind the Chiefs’ Priest Holmes (163.4 yards per game in 2002) and O.J. Simpson (160.2 in 1975).

More on Bell, who was rested in the Steelers’ regular-season finale, from the team’s website: He had five 100-yard games and one 200-yard game over his last seven regular-season games, averaging 4.9 yards per carry. He also had nine touchdowns over his last seven weeks.

Only Arizona’s David Johnson broke more total tackles than Bell’s 61, and his 3.0 yards after contact per rush was fourth in the NFL.


Oh, and he broke the Steelers’ record for rushing yards in a playoff game in Sunday’s win over the Dolphins.

Here are eight other things to know about the Steelers ahead of the Jan. 15 playoff game.

[emoji830] Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger put up some gaudy regular-season numbers: 3,819 yards passing, 29 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. He had seven games with three touchdown passes, which was tied for the third most in the NFL.

However, he’s been a different player away from Heinz Field:



[emoji830] Roethlisberger to Antonio Brown is the most prolific TD connection in Steelers history. The duo has connected on 52 touchdown passes in their careers, one more than the Terry Bradshaw-Lynn Swann combination from an era when the Steelers won their first four Super Bowls. Brown finished the regular-season second in the NFL with 106 catches, and he was a handful for the Dolphins on Sunday. His 12 touchdown passes were also second in the NFL.

[emoji830] The Steelers scored 399 points in 2016, an average of 24.9 per game. The 399 points is the fifth-most in Pittsburgh history (16-game regular season). The top four scoring seasons, in order, in Steelers history for a 16-game season are 2014 (436 points), 2015 (423 points), 1979 (416 points), and 1995 (407 points).

[emoji830] Steelers quarterbacks were sacked the second-fewest number of times in the regular-season, just 21 times. Ben Roethlisberger gets rid of the ball quickly, can move in the pocket and is tough to take down. Big Ben was not sacked during the division-clinching victory over the Baltimore Ravens.


Football Outsiders ranks the Steelers offensive line as the fourth-best in the NFL in pass protection and is second in run blocking.

[emoji830] The Steelers’ defense was ranked 12th in the regular season in yards allowed (342.6 yards per game). According to Team Rankings, Pittsburgh’s defense was one of the most stingy in the red zone, allowing 45.6 percent of touchdowns to opponents when they reach the 20. The Chiefs ranked fifth.

[emoji830] Linebacker Lawrence Timmons led the Steelers with 114 tackles in the regular season and he had 2 1/2 sacks. Fellow linebacker Ryan Shazier had 87 tackles and 3 1/2 sacks. Fifteen different Steelers players had at least one sack, led by 38-year-old James Harrison’s five. During Sunday’s game, CBS said the Steelers had the most sacks of their last seven games of the season. Cornerback William Gay has five pick-sixes since the start of the 2013 season, the most in the NFL.

[emoji830] Pittsburgh tied for ninth in turnover margin (plus-5), compared to plus-16 for the Chiefs, who were tied for the best in the NFL.

[emoji830] Football Outsiders special-teams rankings includes a rating for weather, which is based on “weather and altitude based on stadium type (cold, warm, dome, Denver) and week.” The Steelers are ranked 31st in that weather special-teams rating. In the cold on Sunday, the Pittsburgh missed an extra point. Overall, the Steelers’ special teams are ranked right in the middle of the pack at 16th.

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http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt...#storylink=cpy


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LMAO

Big Ben is a completely different QB on the road...


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Big Ben (and The Steelers) on the road are not the same team as they are at home. I'm not saying this will be easy for The Chiefs. But this isn't a nightmare situation. It isn't a foregone conclusion. At home. There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to hold our own and beat this team.

We'll have to play our best football, yes. But so what? We should. Why should we expect not to play our best football?

Contain Bell and I think we will be fine

Yep. I'd Belichick the **** out of this game. Contain Bell. Make him your priority. Make Ben and the WR core beat you. Then trust Peters and Mitchell and Sorenson and Berry. Let Houston and Poe and Jones and Ford FEAST.

It won't be a walk in the park. But this isn't impossible. This is the same Chiefs team that won the AFC West. And was only a handful of points away from going 14-2.

Maybe we shit the bed. That seems to be what most Chiefs fans expect. And I get that. But this isn't a no win situation. We can beat these Steelers.

"Roethlisberger rushed right into locker room after win. May have just been cold, but looked like shoulder bothered him after the late INT." - @TracyWolfson

She's the sideline reporter for CBS in case some don't know.

Lmao

Our D-line will need to show up. Roethlisberger's two picks came when he was under duress. The Steelers looked good in the trenches today. We need to get a good push up front.

Hopefully injured.

A healthy Houston would be very much helpful in this game.

ROFL Weatherman Kumke has put on some weight

I don't see this at all.


I wouldn't be surprised to see a 2014 New England ass raping, but it will probably end up being a game where the Chiefs go up by 2 scores early, only to have it come down to a butt-puckering Chiefs win in the end.

I hope we rape the raper.
We just need our D and Alex to have a good game.
I think we got this

This will be a week I will gladly take being underestimated by the press.

I pray to God they do. Since we let the likes of David Irving go to the Cowboys (yeah, I'm not over that!!) we need Houston and Hali to show up and show up big. No excuses anymore because, for them, it's pretty-much now or maybe never.

I just want to get over this Divisional Round hump.
My PTSD is going to kick in as we get closer to Sunday.

The obvious trend from our game and the Dolphins game today is that you can't let the Steelers start off fast, you have to be physical and get to them right off the bat. If they get a couple scores quickly, they'll wear you out for the rest of the game with their defense and run game. Our secondary and Dline will have to kick ass early to get the W.

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Roethlisberger has a boot on his ankle.


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Ben in a walking boot coming into his press conference. Vows to play next week. Hurt on last offensive play. Needless and inexcusable injury

^^^^^

We need Hali, Ford and Houston at times out there together. We have to get some pressure on Big Ben.

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I think this will happen.