Predict the Score Contest, Week 9 PIT @ NE

[alamo]

Post your predictions here for Week 9, Pittsburgh Steelers at New England Patriots.

This contest is open to everyone, it's both a weekly and a season-long contest. Stakes are bragging rights.

Week 8 results will be a bit late... I got a little distracted last night when I should have been working on them

Each week I will tabulate and post the scores for the previous week's contest, as well as the cumulative season standings for those who have played every week. As a one-time allowance for computer problems, forgetfulness, or whatever, one week can be missed and will be assigned that week's average score.

Scoring:
Your score is the COMBINED deviation of your predicted score for the Pats and opponents REGARDLESS OF DIRECTION. For example, if you predict Patriots 31 Steelers 20 your score is how many points off of 31 the Pats are (over or under does not matter) PLUS how many points off of 20 the Steelers are (over or under again does not matter). Game winner does not matter. Lowest score wins.

You may change your prediction at any time before kickoff, either by editing your original post or by adding a new one. Predictions made in other threads don't count unless they were clearly meant for this contest but were posted elsewhere by mistake. Please keep this thread to predictions only, no back-and-forth discussion of the game. A short comment explaining your pick is OK.

Good luck!


Previous Weekly winners: (click to see full results)
Week 8 MIA:
Week 7 @NYJ: celticboy04
Week 6 NO: roguepatriot (Perfect)
Week 5 @CIN: alamo and moejr
Week 4 @ATL: bigballas, Rob0729, and sturmrider
Week 3 TB: terabthia2
Week 2 NYJ: BrickPat and moejr (Perfect!)
Week 1 @BUF: Richard Camembert

 

[dannydyn]

Pats: 27
Steels: 13

 

[borg]

24-13 pats

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

Steelers will be playing smash mouth football right down the throats and the middle of a weakened Pats DL.....Leveon Bell's performance is key to the outcome of this game.


Patriots 23
Steelers 17

 

[Gwedd]

Patriots: 28

Steelers: 17

 

[FrodoBagginz]

Pats 59
Steelers 0

 

[Kontradiction]

Pats 31-13

 

[sturmrider]

Pittsburgh has one of the top passing defenses, but fair on the run. Will the Pats commit to the run? Tough call. I have to go with:

Pats 27
Steelers 20

 

[Sicilian]

Pats 31
Steelers 20

 

[DarrylS]

Patriots 31
Steelers 17

 

[PlainOldEd]

30-20 Pats

 

[cstjohn17]

Patriots 23 - Steelers 20

 

[Two Eight]

Pats 34-17

 

[YearbookCurfew]

27-17 Pats.

 

[sly24]

Patriots 27
Steelers 17

 

[Big-T]

Patriots 31
Steelers 21

 

[dales804]

Steelers - 18
Patriots - 24

 

[PatsDeb]

NE 27
Pitt 20

Go Pats!!

 

[derF]

Pats - 27
Pittifuls - 16

 

[Uncle Rico]

I'm going to stick with the system that's made me thisclose to being a top 100 player in this contest:

Pats 39
Steelers 17

For the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9th week in a row: the offense has its big breakout and the D scores a TD.