Steelers Clinch First-Round Bye

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(01-04-2016, 07:37 PM)Beaker Wrote: Love the fact that the steelers will be trying to get DeAngelo Williams back on a short week. And the fact that ben has been cooling off. I even think the Bengals do well in Foxboro next week.

http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/01/04/nfl-coaches-fired-wild-card-schedule-week-17-peyton-manning

Quote:This time Andy Dalton hopes to be coming back from a broken thumb on his throwing hand. He’ll see a hand specialist today and hopes to get his cast removed and have enough range of motion to play a playoff game and exorcise recent playoff demons. Dalton’s pushing it, though, to think he can be normal and pick up where he left off 27 days after breaking the thumb in the first place. “Andy’s very optimistic,” Lewis told me Saturday. “I feel he’s got an opportunity to play next weekend—but we’re going to err on the side of caution.” The problem for Cincinnati: While backup AJ McCarron has played well in Dalton’s absence, it’ll be hard enough to win a shootout with Ben Roethlisberger if Dalton’s on the other side of the field. That just adds more pressure on Dalton to come back and win his first playoff game after losing the playoff opener in his first four NFL seasons.