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Steelers DVOA Kinda Scary

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In taking a gander at the Steerlers DVOA rankings from Football Outsiders I was hoping to find a fatal flaw that the Patriots might hope to exploit, but there certainly isn’t one jumping off the page.

The Steelers are 2nd in defensive DVOA (4th vs. pass, 1st vs. run), and 17th in offensive DVOA (15th passing, 17th rushing). So yes the defense looks… uh what’s the word… oh right.. impenetrable, while the offense looks like they might possibly have trouble moving the ball. Of course that’s if the Patriots defense shows up and plays well, something they didn’t do last weekend.

If there was ever a game you could expect the Pats to go spread it has to be this one.

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http://www.hulu.com/embed/oig671Nd-1a_f52OCor1og

A lot of people might forget about this Pats-Steelers regular season matchup in 2005. While the Pats won the battle it was the Steelers who eventually went on to win the war, and the fact that Pittsburgh ended the seasons of both Matt Light and Rodney Harrison in this game played a big part in that.

Had Light and Harrison both played in the 2005 AFCDG against the Broncos there’s a good chance the Pats would’ve pulled it out and then hosted the Steelers in the AFCCG. Of course that’s not how it worked out, but given a choice of facing Jake Plummer or Tom Brady I’m sure every Steeler fan would choose Plummer.

I will continue to harp on this all week but New England KNOWS HOW to beat Pittsburgh. It’s just going to be a matter of execution.

(Source: http://www.hulu.com/)

https://www.patspropaganda.com/a-lot-of-people-might-forget-about-this/

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Stephen Gostkowski’s was placed on season ending IR today, and thus ends a fairly unspectacular season which started rough but did see him kick his first ever game winning overtime Field Goal.

Shayne Graham steps in to replace him. I find it hard to get all bent out of shape about losing a kicker. I know Ghost was a pro bowler and everything, but until Shayne Graham misses a big kick I’m having a hard time really feeling torn up about it.

Just another stud we’ll get back in 2011…

https://www.patspropaganda.com/stephen-gostkowskis-was-placed-on-season-ending/