Patriots to Host Steelers in AFC Championship Game

“We did a good job of that and came out on top”. Since Andy Reid took over in 2013, they are 23-9 at home and have won 18 of their last 23 there.

SN is providing live updates during Sunday night’s divisional playoff game in Kansas City. New England already got a full day of rest ahead of Pittsburgh, which will arrive back in Pittsburgh early Monday morning.

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The Patriots also haven’t had a high degree of success against wide receiver Antonio Brown in the past. He paused for a moment and just put his head in his hand.

“We shot ourselves in the foot a bunch”, Fisher said.

The Chiefs then mounted their best drive of the night by marching 75 yards on 13 plays and closing to within two points on a one-yard touchdown run by Spencer Ware with 2:43 remaining. But after scoring a touchdown to cut the lead to 18-16, Kansas City was flagged for a hold on James Harrison, negating a successful two-point conversion to force a re-try that, predictably, failed. The score stayed 18-16, and that’s how it ended.

“We knew we had to keep a cap on 10 (Hill) and 87 (tight end Travis Kelce)”, Steelers safety Sean Davis said.

“This one hurts”, he said.

Stopping only to catch his breath, Kelce proceeded to say Cheffers “shouldn’t be able to wear a zebra jersey ever again”.

In a game in which the Chiefs didn’t manage a gain longer than 24 yards, they could have used a big play from Hill.

Roethlisberger will be the toughest quarterback the Patriots have faced all season. “Obviously, it wasn’t our time”. Though Jones has played in fewer games, Brown basically has double the amount of TDs, and 83 more catches than any other player, thanks to catching almost 70 percent of his targets. “You’re in the playoffs, so you need to throw everything out, whether you played them before or didn’t play them before, personnel or whatever it is”. Quarterback Alex Smith is 2-3 in the postseason and holds the National Football League record for the lowest playoff interception rate (one interception in 186 attempts).

“We just had to play our assignments”, Steelers linebacker Bud Dupree said.

Note to the Steelers: Whatever Le’Veon Bell wants this offseason when his contract talks begin, with all due respect to the movie “Rounders”, pay that man his money. Bell broke his own franchise playoff record for rushing yards, picking up 170 yards on 30 carries. Aside from that, the offense produced 389 yards and punted only once (with one turnover) in 10 possessions.

That wasn’t the end of the special teams heroics from the Steelers.

It will be the Pittsburgh Steelers coming to Gillette Stadium next weekend, battling for a spot in Super Bowl LI.

But maintenance crews are working overtime to make sure folks are okay.

Duvernay-Tardif, who continues to study to become a doctor while playing football, hadn’t yet celebrated his second birthday the last time Kansas City won a home playoff game. They just needed to force a punt, and convert a field goal, and they’d get the win.

Boswell’s fourth field goal, from 45 yards, made it 12-7 at the half. It marked the second time in four games that Boswell had six field goals.