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RUSH: Yes, I know, ladies and gentlemen, I called it, I was four-for-four. Wild card weekend, National Football League, four-for-four. But everybody, the whole country, I kid you not, the whole country\u2019s talking about my pick, Steelers-Broncos. I knew it. I got the tape here to prove it. I said it. I knew it. I intuited this. I\u2019m probably the only Steelers fan that was an upset yesterday \u2019cause I knew it was gonna happen.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I didn\u2019t know that God was gonna watch the Steelers-Broncos. I said if God decides to watch, who do you think he\u2019s going to choose? Who do you think he\u2019s gonna want to win, Tebow <\/a>or Roethlisberger? Here, let\u2019s go back, this is what I said<\/a>. I didn\u2019t mention the Cincinnati-Houston game in my prognostications because A, I didn\u2019t care, and, B, I didn\u2019t think Cincinnati really had a chance. But I didn\u2019t mention it so I can\u2019t claim credit for calling it. But I did the other three games.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH ARCHIVE: You\u2019re asking me about the Steelers game. It\u2019s the late game on Sunday. I\u2019m just telling you, of the four games this weekend, this is the upset special. This is the one game I can see the underdog winning. I don\u2019t see the Lions beating the Saints. I don\u2019t see the Falcons beating the Giants. Yeah, I can see it. But there\u2019s something about this, the Steelers are not scoring any points. Just bugs me. And they\u2019re on the road. On paper this ought to be Waterloo for the Broncos because the Steelers defense, but I\u2019ve got one of these bugaboo feelings about this. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not confident.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I have to tell you something. I was shocked when I learned that the Steelers had the number one defense in the league, and I was doubly shocked to learn that the Steelers had the number one pass defense in the league, and then I was triple shocked to learn that the Steelers had not given up a 100-yard game receiver receiving yardage, hundred yards per game all season. Because my impression of the Steelers is you can throw on \u2019em all day long. Obviously I was wrong. But, see, I\u2019m not wrong because they played such pathetic opponents, they had such a week schedule. Steelers defense. The secondary had been torchable for I don\u2019t know how long. Now, it\u2019s clear what happened. It\u2019s doubly clear what happened. The Steelers dared Tebow to beat \u2019em, throw the ball and he went out and did just that. They had nine men in the box. They were protecting on the corners for the option run and they were going man coverage everywhere else, and that\u2019s all she wrote. <\/p>\n

Now, the injuries, the Steelers Coach Tomlin says we don\u2019t go there, we don\u2019t use injuries as an excuse, and I understand saying that, but the Steelers were beat up. There\u2019s another reason why I thought that they were vulnerable here, particularly on the defensive front, but I was not surprised by this. I was surprised the Steelers came back and tied it in the second, I really was. <\/p>\n

I had a friend from New York send me a note on Friday after doing the program. He said, “Look, here are the point spreads for the four games.” He relies on my advice. He said, “Is there anything you see here? Is there a gift here?” and I said, “Yeah, take the ten and a half points you\u2019re getting with the Broncos and run.” He wrote, “Really? That\u2019s the one I want to stay away from!” “No, that\u2019s the one you take! Take the ten and a half points and forget it. You know, bet the farm on it.” So I get a note from him last night thanking me, \u2019cause he did it. (interruption) What other quote? (interruption) I just said that. I said, “If God is watching the game, who do you think he\u2019s gonna prefer?” (interruption)<\/p>\n

Well, I don\u2019t have that sound bite. I don\u2019t have that sound bite here. I just have the sound bite predicting the outcome. (interruption) Well, you know, I was watching the game and the way it started off, I\u2019m just gonna say: None of it surprised me. I don\u2019t mean to be a downer here and I\u2019m not one of these fans who never thinks my team is gonna win. I\u2019m not one of those kind of people. There\u2019s just something about this game from the minute it ended up being a reality that I said, “They\u2019re just ripe. They\u2019re gonna make Tebow…” They had a couple safety blitzes but they didn\u2019t even try to rattle. They\u2019re known as “blitzburgh” and there weren\u2019t any blitzes to speak of.<\/p>\n

They just literally said, “We\u2019re gonna go man coverage and make you throw it,” and you\u2019ve got a couple Steelers cornerbacks saying, “We never saw that on tape! We have never seen that! Nobody showed us that. There is no videotape of Tebow completing passes like that.” Well, maybe it\u2019s because they hadn\u2019t let him try yet. Maybe it\u2019s \u2019cause his own team hasn\u2019t believed in him. If you\u2019re going to go man coverage all day long… (interruption) Well, you know, Snerdley just said that Elway was pretty happy. That\u2019s another thing. (chuckling) Yeah, it looked like it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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