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The matchup with Cincinnati should be a good one. The big question is whether the Steelers can stop Palmer this time. Joey Harrington just passed all over their defense. Will Palmer do it again, too?

i would say that the steelers will win 21-14 something like that
but if they play like they did against detroit then it could be interesting and what i mean by that is the scoring was pretty high for both teams considering that the steelers held there opponents to single digits the past 3 or 4 games and maybe the steelers will pick up on there defense a little bit and the bengels will keep up on there skid for the steeler win
but in the next round who would the steelers play?
would it be new england in the next round after new england won last night and beating jacksonville i believe 29-3


duece2

espn says that the burgh will play at indy if they win. regardless of whatelse happens, they will play indy.

oh boy that sucks could get interesting though with the way that indy has been playing lately with 2 or 3 losses

but does indy i would assume have a first round bye?

duece2

[quote="Gunner18";p="115613"]espn says that the burgh will play at indy if they win. regardless of whatelse happens, they will play indy.[/quote]

In the NFL, the highest seeded playoff team always plays the lowest seeded team remaining. If P-burgh wins they play Indy and New England plays Denver. In Cincy wins, New England plays Indy, Cincy plays Denver.

Indy and Denver had the byes this weekend since they were the 1 and 2 seed.

AFC seeding is:
1 - Indy
2- Denver
3 - Cincy
4 - New England
5 - Jacksonville
6 - P-burgh

New England was seeded higher than Jacksonville and P-burgh with a 10-6 record (worse than both Jacksonville and P-burgh) because they were a division winner.

duece i hope you arent serious about indy's recent form. the only reason theyve lost 2 in a row is because of loss number 1. if they would have beaten the chargers, then you can bet the farm that they would have taken all their starters to seattle. but as it was they already had the top seed in the conference with a garuanteed first round bye and homefield throughout, therefore they rested their big boys and saved them from injury against the 'hawks. if manning, james and company would have played in seattle, then youd probably be looking at a 15-1 colts team or whatever.

yeah gunner i was serious not in there form but in that they lost 2 in a row and that they could make it 3 in a row.
thats all that i was getting at there
but next week should be interesting with indy and the steelers and the patriots vs denver should be good too.

duece2

They beat Arizona in week 17, they won't lose 3 games in a row no matter which way you cut it.

ahh i forgot about the arizona game
i don't follow the colts really and i kept thinking that the last that they played the colts lost
so oh well

my bad

duece2

How many plays will it take before they hurt Manning? I think they'll get him the first place of this one. Then they'll be facing the Pats to go to the Super Bowl.