by Mark Stringer
Denver Broncos
Ron Chenoy USPRESSWIRE

The Denver Broncos and Pittsburgh Steelers will face off this weekend Sunday at 4:30 Eastern Time in Denver. The Broncos have home field advantage because they’re the AFC West division champs despite their mediocre 8-8 record. The Steelers come in with a 12-4 record and a 2nd-place finish in the AFC North behind the Baltimore Ravens.

The Denver Broncos are coming off three straight losses and two of those teams are nowhere close to the caliber of the Steelers. Tim Tebow will have to be on his A game the entire four quarters, which hasn’t happened so far this year. The Steelers have been playing with banged up QB Ben Roethlisberger. Even with the injury Big Ben has played well enough for the Steelers to keep winning.

Pete Prisco says the big mismatch for the Broncos comes with the passing offense that will be going up against a Steelers pass defense which is first in pass yards allowed per game.

I am going to agree with Prisco on this one. The Broncos already have trouble in the passing game. The Steelers rank 1st in pass D and LB James Harrison and company will be putting the pressure on Tebow all day. Troy Polamalu the saftey for the Steelers was named defensive player of the week last week in a game where he had an INT, a highlight film sack, three pass break ups and two tackles. Polamalu won the defensive player of the year award last year.

The Steelers’ D ranks first in points given up at 14.2 per game, 1st in yards 271.8, 1st in passing yards 171.9, and 8th in rushing yards 99.8 per game.

These numbers do not bode well for the Denver Broncos whose offense ranks 25th in points 19.3, 23rd in yards with 316.6 per game, 31st in passing 152.1, and 1st in rushing with 164.5.

The Steelers should be able to stack the run since they have the league’s best pass D and the Broncos have one of the worst pass O’s.

The Broncos will have to lean heavily on their #1 ranked run offense and make some big pass plays off play action.

Im sticking with my prediction:

Pittsburg 31

Denver 13

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