Their defense has always held the Steelers offense in check. Thus Brady has a short field. If the Steelers do not turn the ball over they should win. The Patriots defense is terrible. Although the bye week should help them

He’s the new Mr. October. Except in his sport, that’s not such a good thing like it was for Reggie Jackson.

Hope its a great, injury free game.

Steelers “Defense” LOL. As if you can call it that. They’re terrible.

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Do you have any clue as to what you’re talking about? See below. The only team that is probably more competitive across defensive categories is the Ravens, and it’s not by that much. To be fair about it, the Steelers have been weak-to-average in certain areas (they’ve been silent in generating INTs, which is somewhat reminiscent of 2009; they’re run-of-the-mill in protecting against the run). On the flip side, they’ve also had some issues with injuries throughout the season thus far (the following have missed time at some point: Aaron Smith, James Harrison, Chris Hoke, Big Snack, Brett Kiesel, Ryan Clark – all starters, sans Hoke – and there may be others I’m missing).

Yards Allowed per Game: 3rd in the NFL.
Passing Yards Allowed per Game: 1st in the NFL.
Rushing Yards Allowed per Game: 12th in the NFL.
Points Allowed per Game: 3rd in the NFL.
Sacks Against: 6th.
Yardage from Sacks: 6th (tied).
Fumbles Recovered: 3rd (tied).

Upshot: has the Steelers’ defense looked more dominant at times in recent seasons past? Sure. However, if these numbers are that incredibly “terrible” to you, then you either know nothing about football or else need to learn how to appropriately interpret ranks (which I’m fairly certain they teach somewhere between 1st and 3rd grade).

Love, love, love Dick LeBeau but holeinone09 is right: We have never found a way to put the pressure on Brady. He doesn’t perform well under pressure. That’s how the Ravens nearly overcame him in 2007, how the Giants overcame him in SBXLII, and how the Browns overcame him last season. He’s not a seat-of-the-pants guy like Ben. He’s the best–but not when he’s rattled. I’d love to believe we could finally get his number this year … but without Harrison, I just don’t know. Then again, after Monday night, we all know anything is possible.

Until that changes, their secondary can’t possibly hope to buy the pass rush enough time to disrupt Brady.

Patriots will win big, again.

That’s a pretty big IF, especially with the guys Pitts has in the secondary.

And Law Firm and Ridley are running well.

Tall order for the Squealers.

I do the same thing, usually just assume this game is probably going to be a loss, no matter where it is played.
The Pats have had an extra week to get ready, I look for the matchups okiesteeler mentioned – especially Farrior. He kills the Steelers in coverage, either of those TEs against Farrior is a bad one for us. Hopefully the offense can score enough points to be close in the end. It’s probably too much to hope for that Redman starts over east-west Mendenhall.

It’s not that one sided.

Big games count much more than regular season games.

Big Ben’s first super bowl. Remember the AFC championship who was standing in Pitts way?

That’s right, the Tom Brady Pats.
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Uhhh, no. It was Jake Plummer’s Broncos.

Going into the fourth quarter it was 23-3 Pats and just as soon as Roethlisberger threw a TD to make it 23-10 he then threw a pick six to James Sanders to make it 29-10 (Pat’s 2 point conversion attempt failed).

Holding the Patriots to 33 (39-6) is not that horrible but the offense has to score more than three points in the first three quarters.

The Steelers managed some garbage time points at the end but the game was never close because the offense did squat when it actually mattered.

Big Ben’s first super bowl. Remember the AFC championship who was standing in Pitts way?

That’s right, the Tom Brady Pats.
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I’m pretty sure that was the Jake Plummer Broncos, but let’s not let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Big games count much more than regular season games.

Big Ben’s first super bowl. Remember the AFC championship who was standing in Pitts way?

That’s right, the Tom Brady Pats.
..I missed that AFC Championship game whent the Steelers beat the Pats, I must have been out of the country. What year was that again?

Their remaining schedule…

@CIN
@KC
vsCIN
vsCLE
@SF
vsSTL
@CLE

If doesn’t get any easier than that for a defense.

But on a serious note as mentioned earlier in the comments the pats are running alot more double tight end sets now so it will be a different matchup

But the biggest obstacle a team faces when playing the Patriots is the need to score more than 30 points to have a chance. Not many teams can.

Brady has dominated us and unless we scheme differently I fear he will do it again.

Hopefully they come up with a way to pressure him, because that is the only way we have a chance.