Black & Yellow | Pittsburgh Steelers M26

[djp73]

hey, let's win a playoff game for a change

[redsox907]

hey, let's win a playoff game for a change

[redsox907]

2026 - AFC Divisional Round

Pittsburgh Steelers (14-3)
88 Overall // 88 Offense // 88 Defense
Offensive Points Per Game: 36.4 (1st)
Pass Yards: 240.2 (5th)
Rush Yards: 194.7 (1st)
Defensive Points Per Game: 23.7 (23rd)
Opp Pass Yards: 250.8 (32nd)
Opp Rush Yards: 60.4 (1st)

New England Patriots
83 Overall // 84 Offense // 83 Defense
Offensive Points Per Game: 21.8 (17th)
Pass Yards: 196.4 (29th)
Rush Yards: 86.8 (22nd)
Defensive Points Per Game: 20.0 (5th)
Opp Pass Yards: 229.9 (23rd)
Opp Rush Yards: 87.2 (5th)

Pittsburgh Steelers                                             New England Patriots
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G Isaac Seumalo (81) Torn Pectoral (14-20 Weeks)         | INJ | HB Treveyon Henderson (82) Knee Cartilage Tear (3-5 Weeks)
T Trent Brown (85) Lumbar Fracture (39-45 Weeks)         | INJ |

Pittsburgh Steelers                                                         New England Patriots
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Anthony Richardson Sr - 317/495 (64%), 4,201 Yds, 39 TD, 11 INT | Passing  | Drake Maye - 295/477 (61%), 3,351 Yds, 30 TD, 10 INT
Anthony Richardson Sr - 154 Att, 1,527 Yds, 17 TD               | Rushing  | Drake Maye - 39 Att, 140 Yds, 2 TD
Jaylen Warren - 177 Att, 948 Yds, 7 TD                          | Rushing  | Rhamondre Stevenson - 139 Att, 568 Yds, 8 TD
DK Metcalf - 73 Rec, 1,479 Yds, 16 TD                           | Receiving| Stefon Diggs - 82 Rec, 1,113 Yds, 12 TD
(R) Zachariah Branch - 91 Rec, 1,025 Yds, 10 TD                 | Receiving| Kendrick Bourne - 69 Rec, 811 Yds, 5 TD
SS DeShon Elliott - 118 Tkl, 21 TFL, 4 Sacks, 2 INT             | Defense  | MLB Robert Spillane - 121 Tkl, 7 TFL, 1.5 Sacks, 2 INT
EDGE Alex Highsmith - 66 Tkl, 34 TFL, 14 Sacks                  | Defense  | LB Harold Landry III - 79 Tkl, 23 TFL, 6.5 Sacks
EDGE TJ Watt - 54 Tkl, 26 TFL, 9 Sacks                          | Defense  | DT Milton Williams - 71 Tkl, 29 TFL, 9.5 Sacks
CB Joey Porter Jr - 69 Tkl, 10 TFL, Sack, 4 INT                 | Defense  | CB Marcus Jones - 84 Tkl, 2 TFL, 0.5 Sack, 3 INT

Playoff Wild Card Round Results
15 Miami @ Kansas City 21
24 Seattle @ Detroit 17
14 New England @ Indianapolis 10
15 New York (N) @ Atlanta 21
24 Baltimore @ Buffalo 27
28 Green Bay @ San Francisco 24

Divisional Round Matchups
Seattle Seahawks (8-9) @ Philadelphia Eagles (13-4)
Buffalo Bills (12-5) @ Kansas City Chiefs (13-4)
Green Bay Packers (12-5) @ Atlanta Falcons (8-9)

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Steelers Refuse To Let Playoff Past Define Their Present

Pittsburgh, PA. - As the Pittsburgh Steelers gear up to host their first home playoff game since the 2017 Divisional Round, they aren’t ducking the storyline hanging over the franchise like a storm cloud.

That 2017 Divisional Round matchup, a narrow win over the Alex Smith–led Kansas City Chiefs, before Patrick Mahomes changed the AFC forever, was also the last time the Steelers won a postseason game. Nine years. TJ Watt became a perennial All-Pro without ever tasting a playoff victory. An entire era of Steelers football passed without a January breakthrough.

“We know how long it’s been. I know how long it’s been,” MVP frontrunner Anthony Richardson said this week, asked about the weight of nearly a decade’s worth of postseason frustration.

“But also, we aren’t those guys. There’s nothing we can do this weekend to erase nine years of playoff near-misses. If we go out there trying to make up for all of that?” Richardson lets out a scoff, dismissing the idea just as quickly.

“We’re already done.”

What Pittsburgh can do, however, is lean on something they’ve rarely had during this losing streak: an offense capable of overwhelming anyone.

This year’s Steelers finished No. 1 in total offense, the first Pittsburgh unit to do so since the 1979 team, a group that ended its season with a Lombardi Trophy. The Big Ben–Antonio Brown–Le’Veon Bell era produced fireworks, but it was paired with defensive regression and nagging injuries. This version? A 25 year old superstar quarterback, a dynamic duo at WR, and a coordinator/QB pairing that finally feels built for January.

“It’s a different feeling this year, for sure,” said All Pro linebacker TJ Watt, who has never been part of a Steelers playoff win despite being drafted months after the team’s last one.

“Not to discredit the teams we’ve had before, we had warriors in those locker rooms. But this team is hungry. I can’t speak for everyone, but I know I am damn tired of the narrative that we can’t win in January. It’s time to prove it once and for all.”

The matchup itself adds a layer of intrigue. The New England Patriots arrive young, unproven, and built on defense, a mirror image of the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick dynasties of old, yet nothing like them in practice. It’s not lost on anyone that Pittsburgh’s modern playoff heartbreaks often ran through Foxborough.

But this time?

“Tom Brady isn’t walking through that door,” Mike Tomlin deadpanned Wednesday, drawing laughs while framing what everyone already knows: this is a new era, for both franchises.

On Saturday, the Steelers will take the field at Acrisure Stadium as the AFC’s No. 1 seed, led by an MVP candidate, armed with the league’s best offense, and holding their first real chance in years to end the playoff drought.

A decade of disappointment doesn’t vanish with one win.

But for the first time since 2017, Pittsburgh enters January believing that this might be the team that does it.

[six7]

New England looks trash outside of the great rush defense… should be an easy dub tbh

[djp73]

Forgot about your OL injuries. Those could be a factor…

[Soapy]

“Tom Brady isn’t walking through that door,” Mike Tomlin deadpanned Wednesday, drawing laughs while framing what everyone already knows: this is a new era, for both franchises.

Drake Maye

[The JZA]

Drake Maye goes down in the 3rd quarter

[Captain Canada]

Our Lord & Saviour, Drake Maye. Deliver us from Evil.

[Count]

Disrespecting Maye ain’t gonna work out well for Tomlin