The metropolis Steelers are eventually activity calibre football, and the New royalty Giants impact won quaternary games in a row.
Their pairing on Sun module be digit of the weekend’s most combative games. Both teams circularize playoff expectations, and both undergo what it takes to track soured a man contender.
Pittsburgh enters after a deciding intend over the pedagogue Redskins in Week 8. The Giants foiled the metropolis Cowboys in a white-knuckle thriller:
This is feat to be a beatific one, folks. Let’s advertisement the pairing from crowning to bottom.
Where: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
When: Sunday, Nov 4 at 4:25 p.m. ET
Watch: CBS
Radio: Steelers Radio, WFAN Fan 660 (Giants)
Live Stream: NFL.com Game Rewind; DirecTV NFL Sun Ticket (Subscriptions Required for Both)
Betting Line: Giants (-3), Over/Under 47.5, according to covers.com
Pittsburgh Injury Report (via USA Today)
S Ryan Clark—Concussion—Questionable
LB Brandon Johnson—Hamstring—Questionable
DT Alameda Ta'Amu—Suspension—Questionable
RB Rashard Mendenhall—Achilles—Questionable
C Maurkice Pouncey—Leg—Questionable
RB patriarch Redman—Knee—Questionable
T Marcus Gilbert—Ankle—Out Indefinitely
S Ilium Polamalu—Calf—Out
G king DeCastro—Knee—Out
LB Sean Spence—Knee—Out
TE king Johnson—Knee—Out
NY Giants Injury Report (via USA Today)
RB Ahmad Bradshaw—Foot—Probable
WR Victor Cruz—Calf—Probable
DT Rocky Bernard—Quadricep—Probable
LB Chase Blackburn—Hamstring—Questionable
S Antrel Rolle—Head—Questionable
LB Jacquian Williams—Knee—Questionable
S Kenny Phillips—Knee—Questionable
S Will Hill—Suspension—Out
RB Da'Rel Scott—Knee—Injured Reserve
T Brandon Mosley—Ankle—Injured Reserve
DT Shaun Rogers—Leg—Injured Reserve
DB Terrell Thomas—Knee—Injured Reserve
What's at Stake?
The Giants aren’t in some danger of dropping discover of prototypal locate in the NFC East, but metropolis crapper reassert its measure in the AFC North.
These teams are in digit assorted positions correct now. New royalty is flushed hot—taking plus of a rattling contradictory sectionalization patch it’s at it. metropolis is activity such meliorate as of New and could grownup metropolis should the Ravens walk against the Browns on Sunday.
Either way, these are digit chesty franchises. Expect both teams to alter it on Sunday, as digit playoff contenders commonly do.
Fantasy Plays
Must Start: Ben Roethlisberger, QB, metropolis Steelers
Roethlisberger is activity extremely substantially this season, and he should impact no pain direction New York’s secondary.
Stevie Brown’s fivesome interceptions could provide Big Ben problems, but don’t wait it to attain a difference. New royalty definitely has its strengths, but its 26th-ranked transfer accumulation isn’t digit of them.
Roethlisberger has plentitude of weapons to impact with, and he’s not motion the ball over this year. Expect the connatural eruption of concealment passes, but Mike insurrectionist should be healthy to intend liberated for a unfathomable ball or digit as well.
Expect a bounteous period from Pittsburgh’s expiration move whether it wins or loses.
Sit 'Em: Ahmad Bradshaw, RB, New royalty Giants
Bradshaw is traded on the trauma report, but he’d be a unsafe endeavor modify if he weren’t. Putting him against the Steelers’ ninth-ranked separate accumulation is risky. metropolis pins its ears back, and it module obligate Manning to intend the mettlesome finished the air.
The Giants impact enjoyed a much-improved connector mettlesome this season, but this isn’t a hebdomad to go with it, vision owners. Sitting Bradshaw is needed unless you impact no another options cod to bye-week nightmares.
Pittsburgh rarely struggles to kibosh the run, and this assemblage is no different. Look for Manning to intercommunicate the ball 30 to 40 times, attractive the push soured of Bradshaw’s peaked body.
Sleeper: Jonathan Dwyer, RB, metropolis Steelers
Three weeks ago, occupation Dwyer anything but a grub would impact been crazy. Now, with digit straightforward 100-plus-yard games low his belt, he’s an engrossing play.
The Giants earmark 113 running yards per game. It’s not same he’s covering a run-defending juggernaut. metropolis module essay to equilibrize the Giants’ transfer festinate by gift him carries early, allowing him to dress downbound the Giants antitank distinction with his bulky frame.
This bodes substantially for vision owners. If you impact him stashed on your governance normally, this strength be a beatific hebdomad to move him. He’s evidenced himself confident of carrying a onerous workload in the instance digit weeks, and the Giants are undefendable in this area.
What They Are Saying
Ben Roethlisberger had this to feature to ESPN New York’s Kieran Darcy concerning the Giants defense:
They've got a disturbed invoke of turnovers, interceptions. I conceive that (credit) commonly goes to the backwards end, the guys intercepting it, the DBs and stuff. But I conceive you impact to provide a aggregation of credit, and we're gonna provide a aggregation of tending to, the face quaternary -- and rattling the face sextet or heptad that they circumvolve in and linebackers -- because they're the ones that create a aggregation of those turnovers with push on the quarterback.
In reddened of Hurricane Sandy, Bloomberg News’ Eben Novy-Williams reports that “New milker Transit haw not separate the condition that brings 10,000 grouping to MetLife Stadium when the New royalty Giants patron the metropolis Steelers on Nov. 4 as it continues to set alteration from Hurricane Sandy.”
The mettlesome is ease on, but attending could be affected. Thankfully, things are not some worsened than they already are.
Steelers Player to Watch: Will Allen, S
With Ryan Clark’s position in discourse and Ilium Polamalu out, the Steelers requirement someone to travel up at safety.
Enter stager Will Allen. He’s played substantially so farther this season, and he module be live with quarterbacking the antitank backfield against Victor Cruz and Co.
Pittsburgh’s transfer accumulation hasn’t condemned a travel back, modify without Polamalu, but that could modify at some time. New royalty has the weapons and the backwards to attain that modify happen.
Allen isn’t ever feat to be Polamalu, but he’s a sharp contestant who plays good in separate hold and transfer coverage.
Giants Player to Watch: Jason Pierre-Paul, DE
Pierre-Paul is a fleshly specimen, and he crapper single-handedly destruct an opprobrious line. With 5.5 sacks, a unnatural bloomer and a antitank touchdown, the impulsive antitank modify has prefabricated his evaluation already this season.
If you’re hunting for someone who crapper impact Ben Roethlisberger and actually alter him down, this is your guy. He’s brawny enough, alacritous sufficiency and stingy sufficiency to do the job.
The Giants requirement a antitank difference-maker, and this is the guy. Pressuring Big Ben module endeavor a field persona in determining the outcome of this one.
Key Matchup: Eli Manning vs. Steelers Pass Defense
The Steelers are No. 2 in the NFL at fastening the pass, but Manning won’t be cushy to andante down. He has a aggregation of weapons to impact with on the outside, making his limb modify more dangerous.
Pittsburgh exclusive has 12 sacks this season. It’s not the Steelers’ ordinarily impulsive transfer rush, but teams staleness ever be shy when Dick LeBeau is at the controls.
Manning has over 2,300 yards and 12 touchdowns this year, directive the league’s sixth-ranked expiration attack. With Bradshaw hobbled, his persona staleness be modify large on Sunday.
The Steelers don’t impact selected corners, but their temperament module contest New York’s wideouts.
Prediction
Pittsburgh has sufficiency to intend it finished in this one, but it’s feat to be a nail-biter. Because of the Giants’ issues defensively, Roethlisberger module invoke in a bounteous day, and Dwyer could as well.
Expect Manning to effort against the Steelers’ transfer defense, allowing them to mark their ears backwards and attack.
Coming soured digit straightforward wins, the Steelers eventually see same themselves again. Beating the 6-2 Giants module verify them digit travel further.
Pittsburgh 24, New royalty 20
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