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Sunday, January 23, 2005

Dillon does it

Tom Brady handed off the Corey Dillon who might as well have run all the way to Jacksonville. The touchdown, made possible by Pittsburg DE Aaron Smith's defensive holding penalty on 3rd and 17, gives New England a 31-10 lead with 7:27 left in the 3rd quarter. Unless the Steelers duplicate the heroics of the '92 Buffalo Bills in the Wild Card game against the Houston Oilers, New England will be playing Jacksonville.

I don't think the Steelers will be able to do it. Things looked promising before Smith's penalty. It would have been 4th and 17 without that penalty. Even if the pass Brady threw on that 3rd and 17 play had been completed to his intended target, Corey Dillon, someone most likely would have tackled him before he gained 17 yards for the first down. The Steelers had the Pats stopped. Now it seems the Patriots can't be stopped.

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