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Jacksonville Jaguars @ Pittsburgh Steelers
Most people on the Steelers this weekend will tell you how the Jags have a great defense but Blake Bortles and the offense sucks. The Jags offense last weekend looked abysmal, but there’s a reason for it. Blake has never played football this time of year as he’s never made the playoffs. He’s only been accustomed to playing in the sunny Florida weather. He was absolutely terrible in Jacksonville on Sunday, as only 1 WR on the team had a catch. However, Blake was playing his first game ever in high winds, as Jacksonville posted 20mph winds during that game. Blake has had 0 experience playing in such games, so it’s easy to see why he was missing wide open receivers all game long. The Jags defense however, was lights out. They recorded two sacks against a very mobile QB, and is surely to get more against Big Ben the statue. Jags defense will continue to dominate, while the offense will play much better this weekend, in Pittsburgh which is expecting just 6 mph winds. Let’s not forget that the Jags scored 30 points in 4 of the final 5 games of the regular season.
As for the Steelers, they are a team that finished the season red hot, winning 10 of their final 11 games. However, many starters haven't played a single snap for 3 weeks. Tomlin decided to rest his starters in week 17, despite having a bye week coming up. When you are red hot to finish a season, the last thing you want is 3 weeks off. Not to mention Antonio Brown has been out for even further as well. Has Tomlin been able to keep the offense in rhythm during the time off? I highly doubt it. Tomlin made a mistake resting starters in week 17, and now a Steelers offense out of rhythm will be going up against the best defense in the AFC.
On further note, Mike Tomlin wasn’t the only one on the Steelers making a mistake prior to this game. Big Ben when asked who he’d rather face in the opening round of the playoffs openly said “the Jaguars”. Never give an opponent bulletin board material prior to a game. The Jaguars in response to Ben’s comments: “be careful what you wish for”. The Jags will bring it here, and Pittsburgh is absolutely on upset alert.
- Jaguars +7.5 ($5,000)
- Vikings -3.5 ($4,000)
- Saints Under 20.5 ($1,000)
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Agree with everything here except Minnesota traveling to Philadelphia next week as I think it's Atlanta that the Vikings will be facing off with next week and NOT philly but hey that's just me.
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