In the weeks leading up to the Pittsburgh Steelers playoff matchup against the Buffalo Bills, the Steelers had found their run game and this was a huge part of the team’s late-season success.
But on Monday against Buffalo, the run game ran into a wall on a cold day. The game was postponed from Sunday to Monday due to a huge winter storm that rolled in and when the teams could play, the playing field was much more level. Which was bad news for the Steelers. The one advantage they might have had would have been playing in a snow game to give the run game something of an edge.
Bills defensive lineman Ed Oliver heard this and decided to throw some shade at the Steelers offense when he talked after the Bills win..
“I heard they wanted to play yesterday [Sunday] in the blizzard because they thought they could run the ball,” Oliver said. “Then we give them even better conditions, and they still can’t run the ball.”
There’s no doubt the great equalizer for Pittsburgh might have been a snowy field. Clearly, the Bills took it personally that some thought Pittsburgh would be able to run the football on them and they shut it down.
