San Diego (+3.5) at Pittsburgh (12-2-18)

[oldunclemark]

8:20 EST .....Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth and Michele Tafoya on NBC

Mid-50s and a chance of rain at Heinz Field - Pittsburgh  over-under at 52

 

Charger QB Phillip "Old Man' Rivers (239 of 344, 3,119 yards, 26 Tds, 6 INTs) will have to go without injured RB Melvin Gordon (153 carries 802 yards) but he does have four receivers with 400 r ore yards in receptions. The Chargers also have top DEs Joey Bosa and Melvin Ingram leading a defense that has allowed just  99 points in their last seven games.

 

Pittsburgh QB 'Big Ben' Rothlisberger (312 of 472, 3,644 yards, 24 TDs, 12 INts) has big time receivers in 'Downtown' Antonio Brown (71 catches, 874 yards) and JuJu Smith Schuster (77 catches, 1077 yards) plus RB James ("I'm not LeVeon. I want to be here") Conner (186 carries 849 yards) .

 

The Steelers have only scored 37 points the last 2 weeks but those were road games and this is not.

Pittsburgh (7-3-1) isn't going to lose their division but they want to finish ahead of New England so they don't have to go there in January. The Chargers (8-3) probably wont catch Kansas City (9-2) but a loss puts them in range of the Ravens (6-5) and Colts (6-5).

 

This game seems closer than it is. Who have the Chargers beaten? The Browns? Buffalo?

Oakland twice.??  Pittsburgh showed some holiday spirit last week donating a 'gift' game to Denver.

They wont be so nice this Sunday.

Take the Steelers and give the gift of the points

[oldunclemark]

23-7 at at the half....

 

Chargers (soon to be 8-4) seem overmatched. Their star DEs cant get anywhere near Ben

[oldunclemark]

Chargers (not soon to be 8-4)...win 33-30

amazing comeback from 23-7......bizarre finish...

 

Refs missed the Charger offside and then called 2 offsides (correctly) on the game winning kick.

 

Colts (6-6) can no longer catch the Chargers (9-3)..must catch Baltimore (7-5)

[2006Coltsbestever]

Time for Rivers to get his Ring. Everyone gives Rivers crap for having 0 Rings but he has had to deal with Brady, Peyton, and Ben. 2006 was his best team but Brady took him out that year and he wasn't beating us either in 2006 with Bob back LOL. Rivers now has a team similar to 2006. 

[BloodyChamp]

That was 1 of the best comebacks in a long, long, long time! Dare I say 1 of the best ever? Biggest deficit? Hailmary? No none of that stuff but it was a pretty big deficit and most importantly it was between 2 of the best team with more than usual on the line. 

[BloodyChamp]

Also, did anybody see that lineman block 3 of the 4 guys on the first offsides? Sign him and put him on the Colts OL lol!

[Chrisaaron1023]

On 12/2/2018 at 11:42 PM, 2006Coltsbestever said:

. 2006 was his best team but Brady took him out that year and he wasn't beating us either in 2006 with Bob back LOL

Kinda was rooting for the Patriots that day. We would have had to go to SD and they had our number lol.

 

But the Chargers are really good this year.. and they didn't even have Gordon. My only concern with them beating KC and winning the division is... is their 13-3 tiebreaker over the Patriots 13-3.. I'm obsessed I know

[Girlzarefanstoo]

On 12/2/2018 at 8:54 PM, BloodyChamp said:

Also, did anybody see that lineman block 3 of the 4 guys on the first offsides? Sign him and put him on the Colts OL lol!

I am watching the game again right now.  We missed that Sunday night, i will have to look for it.  

[BloodyChamp]

On the FG sequence...the first FG IIRC