My responses in italicsThey will try to play the Rams the way the 49ers do: play hard, tight, aggressive defense, sledgehammer-run the football, and exploit the Rams soft zone coverage by throwing 4-5 yard passes to Allen Robinson and having him get an additional 2 yards every time.
Collectively, I think the Steelers are the dumbest team in the NFL with the exception of the Ravens. We'll probably see some cheap-shots or borderline hits by the Steelers on Rams players. Hopefully they get flagged for them.
Not that dumb - just predictable. As to the cheap and/orshots - they've been there as you say on the borderline or slightly over it for Tomlinson's tenure.The best scenario for the Rams would be to get ahead early but this will involve tremendous risk as the Steelers will stop at nothing to keep it from happening; they want nothing more than for the total points scored going into the 4th quarter to be less than 20; Tomlin knows that they are dead in the water under any other circumstance.
Tomlinson vs. McVay = Tomlinson vs. good McVay, or Tomlinson vs. stuck-in-a-rut-of-his-own-making McVay?Whoever starts at cornerback opposite of Weatherspoon will be targeted a lot, so this is not a week for boneheaded errors or stupid behavior and penalties.
You want us to play a cornerback opposite Witherspoon (who may be a little distracted himself, now) who will be free from bonehead errors or stupid behavior and penlties? Who do you have in mind?Rams should win going away with a +2 turnover margin.
With the turnovers, (if that's 2 more than the Steelers get) good odds of winning. Nonetheless I want to see: Higbee-AJ-Avila neutralize Watt in the passing game, Dotson takes it to his former teammates in the running game, and Stafford has time to macerate the Steeler secondary.
