Let's talk about the Steelers...
 

Here we go, one of the games we circled this year.... although I don't think anyone expected us to be headed back home for this one at 5-0, or for Pittsburgh to be 3-2.

We know the story. They had our number in 2016 with two crushing losses. A lot has changed in 9 months, though....

For one, quarterback play. Alex Smith 2.0 is legitimately playing like the best QB in the NFL right now. Ben Roethlisberger, coming off of a 5 interception performance, looks like one of the worst. He also showed his dramatic nature yesterday when he questioned if he had what it takes anymore toward the media.

Pittsburgh currently has the 28th ranked run defense in the NFL, and Kareem Hunt is playing like the NFL's best RB. Seems like a good recipe for us, especially since Mitch Morse and/or LDT should be back for Sunday. I would guess only Morse. Le'Veon Bell is not playing up to his normal standards thus far, as he has only looked dominant in one game. However, this looks like a tough matchup for us there, as we are the 20th ranked run defense and coming off of a bad performance Sunday night in that regard. Both offensive lines are solid groups, although Pittsburgh's has not been as dominant as they were last year.

Pittsburgh has the #1 ranked pass defense right now. Part of that likely stems from their quality of opponents so far. However, we are going to need Kelce Sunday. If the Chiefs have their three-headed monster against Pittsburgh, they are going to be able to put up points. I think they would against about anyone, if Smith is given serviceable pass protection.

Our pass defense is struggling statistically, although anyone who watched last night could tell you that they were almost always in position to make plays on the back end. The Houston receivers always made the play, though, unfortunately. The Chiefs could really use the boost of Dee Ford and Tamba Hali to help bring pressure off of both edges consistently. I think we will probably see Dee this week, but who knows. The great thing about being 5-0 right now is they still have a lot of room to improve. The defense is no where near as good as they can be. Hopefully they hit stride down the stretch in Dec/Jan when the temps drop down.

Predictions are highly dependent on injuries, but because of all of the drama in Pittsburgh right now and KC being at home-- I am taking KC.

Chiefs 30, Steelers 24

They can jam the terrible douche rags up their bloody hatchet wounds.

Our pass defense was leading the league in completion % before last night and although Watson threw for 5 TDs he was only like 18 for 35.

There were legitimately like 5 passes that we could have picked off, and 4 or 5 prayers that Watson threw up and got lucky on. Tough night back there for luck.

Roeth is likely done after this season. Let's make this decision a certainty for him.

Steelers will be looking to bounce back after a bad game against the Jaguars. Especially Big Ben.

Formula for a Steelers Victory:

1. run power up the middle
2. lob some jump balls
3. hope that the Chiefs Offense can't sustain the pace they're currently rolling at..

I'd bench him right now. He says he no longer "has it"...right on....cut.

And don't sell your tickets to stupid Steeler fans

Wasnt the scenario about the same last year when we played them in the regular season (record was iffy....kind of on a bad streak of play)........then boom, they came out firing on all cylinders against us and went on a roll?

Yeah, I expect the same effort this week from Pitt/tomlin.

I despise them, so I hope we come out twice as motivated as them and drop 50 on them.

The bad thing is - we're due for a loss.......and we're coming up on a stretch where I despise all of our opponents and would hate to lose to any of them....but if I had to choose, it wouldnt be the Donks or Fade, so that leaves Pitt.

Or we can just win every game and drop a meaningless game to dallas or buffalo later.

Both Philly and Houston had garbage time TDs...it kind of inflates KCs pass defense statistics.

Houston's WRs made good plays on jump balls...but it's not like KC was in poor position.

Facing them in January and beating them will be such sweet awesomeness.

Win or lose this weekend is meh. It's that January matchup that I can't wait for.

Not sure what to think about this Steelers team. They have the ability to beat just about anyone in the NFL, then they lose to the Jags and Bears. Guess it all depends on what team shows up...what Big Ben will show up. I really hope the Chiefs would use last season's playoff loss as extra motivation coming into this next game but who knows. PIT coming off of a bad loss and they'll be chomping at the bit to come into KC and knock off the last remaining undefeated team in NFL, to help re-establish their place in the AFC pecking order. Luckily for them they play in a really shit division. 8-8 might win that division this year.

Chiefs open as 2.5 favorites at home

Meh means possibly playing at Pittsburgh...

Said it in the other thread.

Last year they got their asses handed to them the week before they crushed us. Hopefully we’re firing on all cylinders.

Let's talk about the Steelers...
 

16-0 thru 13-3 teams do not play on the road in January.

We lost to them last year at Pitt and they played in KC in January.


So meh. Bring on January!

Agreed. On one of the sports talk shows they were saying that if you're in the mindset of considering retirement...you're basically already retired.

Chiefs gonna go through a mid-season gauntlet these next 4 games, would be nice if Chiefs took at least 3 of them. Would really start to set themselves apart from rest of the pack in AFCW.

I get the sense that Ben isn't done physically but, he is done mentally. He doesn't look like he wants to play anymore. I expect an epic sideline altercation between he and Haley in the near future. I hope Ben knocks him out cold. That is what I hope to see. I would rather see that than a KC win. I hate me some Happy Gilmore.

You would rather see that than a what now? Is you serious? :eek:

Yes. We will win more games and lose a few a long the way. It would be worth it. I ****in hate Haley.

We shall be fine, imho

They worry me because I have a feeling we will get their best game this year but I also know the Chiefs will want to take out last year's playoff loss on them.

^^^^^^^^
THIS

Big Ben has given up and this is a sad message to his team. I think we continue to roll and beat them hands down. Seeing the Chiefs win, on the road at Houston with the current hottest QB in the league, who, mind you, threw 5 TD passes on us and we still win? Yeah, we will be fine. If I had to have a game to worry about, it is Dallas. They are becoming last years team and hungry after the loss to Green Bay.

Yup. I mentioned the same thing in the GDT. It’ll be a game for sure.

1. This is 2017, not 2016. We have the top offense in the NFL

2. They've been sayin we're "due for a loss" since the Philly game

Missing both Conley and kelce will be big. Time for #14 to have a coming out party.

Kelce is out?

Due to protocol he may be iffy but haven't seen him ruled out yet.

He ain’t leaving 18 mil out there. After 18 he can walk.

Never know with these concussion protocols.

i hate them and their ugly fan base

The NFL better not pull any weird shit with Kelce's concussion just to protect their darling Steelers.

Am i the only one worried about Bell running all over us? Maybe Sutton can adjust? I mean how many obvious run plays were ran by Houston that KC could not stop them...and Bell is better than Houston's RB's.

When was the last time the Chiefs beat the Steelers when Ben was QB? I know they beat them a couple of years ago in Arrowhead but I think Landry Jones was QB in that game.

Just curious.

2009. Chiefs 27-24 in OT in KC

Thanks. I knew it had been awhile.

Before the season I had this marked as a big ugly "L."

Now Pitt looks like shit. Horrible.

Big Ben has always been worse on the road but he's absolutely terrible on the road this year...

Pitt will play up, the Chiefs will play down to their level. Same as it ever was.

Hunt is the difference in this game....

also..."Roethlisberger ranks dead last in PFF's deep-passing metric, just behind Blake Bortles. On the season, Big Ben is 5 of 27 for 183 yards with no touchdowns, two interceptions and a passer rating of 24.5 on attempts at least 20 yards downfield."

Nothing about this year, for either team, is "same as it ever was."

Bell will probably have a season high vs. us but we continue to score vs. that mediocre D Ben will have to air it out.

We had the perfect game plan on D vs. them in the playoff game last year. The offense just couldn't put jack squat together until it was too late...

The Pitt D has had Alex's number. They seem to have a gift for confusing his pre-snap reads.

Will be a fun reunion this time, if the OL handles its business, and the D can hold Pitt to under 30.

Very true.

However, in the past Alex was risk averse. He wouldn't go down field. The Pitt weakness for years has been the deep ball and we just didn't do it.

Now we do. And if Kelcee is healthy we do it well...

I don't like this game. We don't matchup up that well with their offense and their defense has continuously beaten us down.

I hate playing talented teams that are desperate, especially this one. But we are at home so we'll see.

I think, player for player, the Chiefs are just better than the Steelers and should win this game.

The Steeler D is very tough, but has its weak spots, and Alex can weather it and Hunt can get his yards.

Big Ben just looks off this year. He's still capable of having a big game here or there but he just looks fundamentally off. Still, he's a HOF QB who can will his team to victories. I still think we handle his business, though.

The only thing that really worries me is the run game. The Steelers simply do not give a shit about offensive balance. They will run the ball 40 times if they think that's how they can win.

I do think there's a chance Sutton was playing 4 level chess against the Texans by playing so weak against the run. He never stacked the box; he never threw anything at the run game and the Texans exploited it. The Steelers will see that on film and go to ****ing town with it.

But what if Sutton chooses to actually stack the box? Play four fatties instead of 3?

It opens up the passing game some, but I don't care about Martavis that much -- he's not going to beat us. Terrance Mitchell owned Antonio Brown in the playoffs and I still believe in Marcus Peters.

This isn't last year.

Instead of a team on top of the world they're one turnover away from Brown throwing things around and saying "here we go again..."

I really want to beat these guys. It will be great to have a tiebreaker in the playoffs- I don't want the Chiefs to have to play there.

Let's hope Uncle Ben throws 5 more Interceptions this week.

I don't see it happening.

Our plan vs. them (on D) was fine last year. They never got in the the end zone and they were on fire last year.

This year I'd do the same. Let Bell run the ball and play to take advantage of Ben's eventual stupidity...

Boy that's going to be a fascinating matchup between Brown and Peters.

At this point, that's who you put Brown up against if you're the Steelers, right?

Terrance Mitchell just played lights out against Hopkins until the Chiefs stopped giving a shit, and Mitchell shut down Brown in the playoffs.

Peters is amazing but he's also been off his game for a couple weeks, and like Brown, he's hyperemotional and can get rattled. If Brown can beat him a few times, maybe he goes psycho again and the Steelers can have a passing attack?

Then again, betting against Peters just seems like suicide. And if Peters jacks up Brown for a quarter or two, Brown could go off. So that strategy is at LEAST just as likely to implode your offense.

Imagine having the tiebreaker on the Patriots AND the Steelers.

This team could actually do it.

Yeah good point. If the Chiefs can start out being the one who delivers the first strong punches, this could quickly deflate a melting team like Pitt.

Ehinger has to be ready to come back by now, yeah? I'm good with Fulton at C. Not sure what to feel of the RG situation yet. I really hope Watt isn't rushing from Schwartz's side.

And I'm sorry, folks -- I'm sure the Steelers defense is amazing, but this offense is about as close to fool proof as possible so long as Alex and the three key playmakers are healthy.

Hill and Hunt alone just throw all your plans out the window. You have to sell out against the run to slow Hunt down, which takes a ton of effort and wears you out. And Hill forces the secondary to play so deep it opens up the middle of everything for Kelce and Conley Robinson/Wilson/West.

You saw it against the Texans. They sold out to stop Hunt, Hill pushed their secondary so far down the field that Smith was just hitting Conley, Kelce, and Robinson for wide open passes in the middle.

The combo of Hunt and Hill alone basically make this the Air Raid offense.

If we win this game we'll have the tie breaker over Pitt, NE, and Houston. With Carr out we'll probably sweep the Raiders again giving us a tie breaker over all but 1 team that made the playoffs last year.

We will have beaten every team that made the playoffs last year but one.

Yes, this is a different team...

Pitt isn't a "melting team."

This is a Super Bowl QB, a Super Bowl head coach, and Hall of Fame talent at QB, WR, RB, and Pro Bowl talent all over their defense.

They're mentally tough.

I agree the Chiefs should deliver the first punch, but it's going to take 4 quarters to beat these guys. The Steelers are too prideful and they just got embarrassed this week.

This is basically the game in Denver last year, right?

Denver was the team on top of the rock, and it took us 5 quarters trading blows to eventually knock them off.

Well, Pitt's the last team on the rock in the AFC that we haven't knocked off. They are not going to be pushed off the rock easily. We're going to have to take it from them.

I agree (and adore) this entire post but I believe Carr will be back against us.

He'll be hobbled, and it probably won't matter anyway. I'd be shocked if we don't drop 30 points on them twice this year.

Yep, it would be huge. Steelers got very lucky last year in the playoffs- it will be nice to get a big win and put that loss behind us. End their winning streak against us.

Many had Steelers or Patriots going to the Superbowl.

No way.

On the road Ben will throw less and sure as hell doesn't want to challenge our best DB.

They NEED a win. Not just because of their record but the team needs a win for morale...

I hope the Stadium is more than 2/3 Chiefs fans ****ing **** Steeler fans buying up half the stadium seats.


**** you Steeler fans **** you ****s.



I took my kids to their first Chiefs game a couple years ago and half the stadium was Steeler fans but we beat them and went on a 10 game win streak and our first playoff victory in twenty years so there is that.

I mean, he's free to challenge Mitchell, but I was at Arrowhead for last year's playoff game.

Mitchell just shut down Hopkins, again, until the Chiefs stopped giving a shit. And last year in the playoffs he shut down Brown.

I hope we fist Ben Rothlessburger and make him think retirement during the game.

My only concern with KC's offense is the Steeler passrush.

We've played some nasty passrushes this year, but the Steelers can bring it ALMOST as well as the Eagles could.

Watt is really coming into his own, and Tuitt is a beast up the gut.

James Harrison was a healthy scratch last week, but I'd bet all the money in my pockets he's on the field for 45-50 snaps trying to snap holding penalties on Fisher.

The Raiders might have the worst secondary in the league.

Even before Carr went down Cooper couldn't catch AIDS in a bath house and Beast Mode has become Yeast Mode (he stinks.)

The wheels were coming off the Raider machine before any injuries...

That being said, I'm expecting an All World performance out of Eric Fisher this week.

Did a really solid job against Clowney, but this is the team that put him on a poster for the entire KC offseason.

Fisher has something to prove this week.

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They have the ability to abuse our beat up line.

On the other hand Andy has been magic this year with the game plan. The Steelers have been very vulnerable vs. physical runners this year and that secondary is still very beatable.

Fun fact. They have been struggling and Alex Smith will be the best QB they have faced so far this season

I think our team has a good chance of winning, and I hope they do.

oh so do I!!

This!

Seems like The Chiefs played the Steelers last year right after the Steelers got their ass kicked the week before.
Deja-vu

He should concentrate more on going deep on the field and not off it...

I smell a sig bet...

I think with this years team (even with injuries) the Chiefs will Git R Done!

atta boy!

Thank you!

The steelers just played the 32 run d in the league, with a healthy Bell, and ran it like 13 times.

They're a mess

Their Mess is because AB cries if he don't get the ball every play.