Next up, the elephant in the room.
“And now it’s on to the Patriots. Now it’s here,” Steelers guard David DeCastro declared.
Finally, the game of the year in the NFL takes place at 4:25 p.m. Sunday at Heinz Field, three weeks after Mike Tomlin broke the coaches’ unwritten code and began talking about it as possibly “part one” of a two-part series that could inevitably lead to an AFC championship rematch.
The Steelers put themselves in prime position to earn one of the two top AFC seeds that earn first-round playoff byes, a home game the following week and one win into the AFC title game.