Please Steelers, Beware of the “Trap Game”

Conclusion:

Theoretically the Steelers should cruise to an easy victory, and Ben should be sitting on the sideline by the 4th Quarter because of the whipping that Pittsburgh will be administering to the Jaguars.  Yet if Pittsburgh waltzes into this game on the coat-tails of their dominant win last week thinking it will be a walk in the park against Jacksonville, they might be in for a rude awakening.

The conditions are just right for a perfect “trap game,” and the Steelers need to be ready to defend against it at all costs.  Pittsburgh is far and away the better team in almost all facets of the game, but Jacksonville has players that can, and have hurt the Steelers in the past.  Coupled with the aforementioned factors I have described above, the Steelers must be (and probably will be) on high alert and not take Jacksonville lightly.  Pittsburgh just needs another win to not fall behind in the Division and Playoff races: plain and simple.  I just hope that this isn’t a repeat of that pathetic excuse of a performance against Cleveland in 2009 where they got ambushed in a trap game with similar circumstances and lost.

Pittsburgh must accumulate as many wins as humanly possible in games that are supposedly penciled in as “W’s” if they are to find themselves in the playoffs come January.  The playoff picture should be a bit more crowded than in seasons past in the A.F.C. and every Conference win helps.  If the Steelers lolleygag all over the field like they did against Houston and Baltimore and turn in an uninspiring performance, Jacksonville could gain all the confidence in the world and be ripe to pull an upset.

So let’s go Steelers!  Keep rolling along with that momentum from last week and take every game one at a time.  Play like the savvy veteran ball-club you know that you are, and take these Jag-offs to the wood-shed like you did Tennessee last Sunday.

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