Quote:
Originally Posted by carcosa
http://deadspin.com/which-ben-roethl...wee-1791086732
It's a long article with lots of media embedded so I'm not gonna paste it all here. Just click the link, bitch.
This bit was interesting, though:
Though the article is heavily stats-based and therefore fairly objective, I find it interesting that the writer is a Steelers fan. Feels like this article might have been inspired by anxiety as much as observation.
|
Steelers aren't a push-over. But this isn't week 4. A rookie won't be covering Antonio Brown. It will be in Arrowhead where Ben has never played that well. We'll have Houston and Ford and Hali as good as they've all been all season. In week 4 Ben had 4 passes of 30+ yards -- the Chiefs gave up 6 such plays the rest of the season. We ran into a buzzsaw that week, a week after Pittsburgh got blown out, the week that Bell returned from suspension. We are not the Dolphins who beat no one of consequence all season. Alex Smith plays lights out (compared to the regular season) in the playoffs more often than not.
It will be a battle. The Steelers will try to exploit our ILBs. I'm sure we'll be playing Eric Berry close to the line on running plays.
Chiefs are going to win...and it may not even be that close.