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<\/p>\nRUSH: Sunday you\u2019ve got — well, those playoffs are in the daytime. Late game\u2019s at 4:30, the Steelers at Denver. And, by the way, let me tell you about that, folks, Steelers at Denver. Everybody is talking about how this is going to be not a slaughter, but the conventional wisdom is the Broncos and Tebow don\u2019t have a prayer because Tebow hasn\u2019t faced a defense like the Steelers. But if you look, the Steelers offense is not scoring points. Thirteen points against the Cleveland Browns. This is not the Steelers team of earlier in the year. They are banged up, Roethlisberger is not as mobile. They\u2019re not putting points on the board. <\/p>\n
This game has potential to be much closer. If the Broncos defense shows up — it hasn\u2019t been the last three weeks — but if the Broncos defense shows up as it was in early to mid-December, this could be a closer game. I know the Steelers defense is pretty healthy and they ought to have a pretty good game plan of containing Tebow, but, on the other side of this, the Steelers are not putting up a lot of points. So I don\u2019t know that this is as slam-dunk an outcome as it would otherwise normally be. Just the first take. We\u2019ll have a little bit more on this game tomorrow as well as the other playoff games.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: No, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m gonna go this year. The last time I was in Denver for a football game was the AFC championship game, 2005 season, 2006, Steelers versus the Broncos. That was the year the Steelers came from the number six seed, the first time that a sixth seed had gone all the way to the Super Bowl. I think it was the first time. Yeah. And the Steelers, every playoff game was on the road, and the Broncos had prepared for the Indianapolis Colts. Steelers game the previous week was against the Colts and everybody figured that Peyton Manning, Colts would cream the Steelers. And I happened to be a guest in Pat Bowlen\u2019s suite, the owner of the Broncos. <\/p>\n
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I went with a friend of mine from Hawaii, Mike Hartley and wife Sandy, affectionately known as The Geisha. Yeah, it\u2019s a long story, but affectionately known as The Geisha. Anyway, we went to dinner the night before, and Bowlen\u2019s suite is loaded, of course, with Broncos fans. I am the only guy in there — well, Rod Woodson was in there, Rod Woodson worked for the NFL Network was in there and Terrell Davis was in there. But I think I was the only full-fledged Steelers fan. I had to button my lip and shut up in there. And I\u2019ll never forget the first play was about a 25-yard out to Nate Washington, Roethlisberger to Nate Washington, who hadn\u2019t caught three passes all year. And everybody in that suite said, “Who is this guy?” He was number 85, now plays for the Tennessee Titans. <\/p>\n
So the Steelers came out and the Broncos were not even prepared for the Steelers. They thought they\u2019d be facing the Colts, and they\u2019re throwing to these wide receivers, who are not the top tier to start the game, and I just got the feel in the first quarter that the Steelers are gonna win this game. I just got the sense in there that it was gonna happen. They were marching up and down the field. Jake Plummer was a quarterback of the Broncos at the time, and they were totally discombobulated in Denver because the Steelers were the last team they thought — they\u2019d been studying the Colts for weeks getting ready for this game. So in the third quarter, just after halftime, the Steelers downed a punt, the one-foot line. I forgot myself and I started clapping, “Yeah!” I was the only guy in the place, about a hundred people in there, cheering. And every face turned to look at me. <\/p>\n
Mr. Bowlen\u2019s secretary was literally shooting daggers at me. They take this stuff very seriously. I mean it\u2019s a fraternity, but they take this very seriously. So Hartley and I, we took leave. I went outside for a couple of minutes \u2019til everybody cooled down \u2019cause I think some people were upset that a Steelers fan was in there. I mean this was the AFC championship game. But this game, the Steelers offense, Roethlisberger\u2019s hurt, the Steelers most valuable player that they voted, is a wide receiver, Antonio Brown, hasn\u2019t scored a touchdown since December 6th or something. Now, the Steelers defense, they\u2019re pretty full strength, and the Broncos aren\u2019t scoring points, either, but I just don\u2019t think this is gonna be the slam-dunk Steelers win everybody thinks it is. I just don\u2019t. We\u2019ll see. <\/p>\n
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By the way, Snerdley, just so you know, the Steelers can break a tie with the Cowboys for most playoff wins with their 34th. Cowboys and Steelers are tied 33 playoff wins, whatever level of the playoffs, Steelers win — and they will, it\u2019s just not gonna be the slam-dunk everybody thinks. They\u2019ll go up by one over the Cowboys 34-33, playoff wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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