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Monday’s “First Call” is laying out the playoff schedule for the Pittsburgh Steelers if they survive Monday’s rescheduled wild-card game in Buffalo. A former Bills player is mad at Steelers fans for criticizing the decision to delay the game.
Some NFL defensive standouts with local ties had a weekend they’d like to forget.
And we look at a red-hot team coming to Pittsburgh to play at PPG Paints Arena against the Penguins.
A little clarity.
For as many guessing games as we have had to wait through regarding when the Steelers-Bills playoff game will be played, we at least know the date, time and location of the Steelers’ next game.
That’s if they stay alive by beating Buffalo on Monday (presumably) at 4:30 p.m.
Should the Steelers pull off that upset, they will have to travel to Baltimore to play the Ravens next week in the AFC Divisional round at 6:30 p.m. Sunday night. That’s because the Steelers qualified as the last seed in the seven-team playoff bracket. The Ravens were the top team in the AFC with a 13-4 record.
So Baltimore will be coming off a bye, and they get home-field advantage against the lowest remaining seed each round. In this case, it would be the Steelers. That game in Baltimore would be on CBS, and the Houston Texans would play in Kansas City on Saturday (4:30 p.m., ESPN) in the other half of the AFC bracket.
The Steelers beat the Ravens in both regular season matchups this year.
The NFL has already designated that Houston will be playing in that early game Saturday, preceding Green Bay at San Francisco (8:15 p.m., Fox) in the NFC.
So that means, if the Bills win, Buffalo would host Kansas City in the 6:30 p.m. game Sunday, and the Ravens would host Houston on Saturday.
Hard response
Former Buffalo Bills player — and current radio analyst — Eric Wood isn’t happy with Steelers fans calling the State of New York soft for moving the wild-card game from Sunday to Monday.
