We won the AFC North last year, they wanted to be AFC North champs today, and we weren't having that.' Williams added: 'We knew going in that it would be a physical game. 'Any of those guys who are asleep and not ready to play, when you do something like that during pregame and you start the pushing and the shoving and the skirmishes that were going on out there, you wake everybody up,' Steelers running back DeAngelo Williams told FOX Sports in the locker room after the Steelers knocked off the Bengals 33-20 for their fourth win in five games. They'd be directing their ire toward him, so he apparently wanted to beat them to the punch by stirring things up in the pregame.Īfter a few shoves and some barking between the players, the Steelers were ready to go. He was the one who knocked Le'Veon Bell out for the season earlier this year, and the Steelers didn't like the way he celebrated while Bell was down in pain.
The Steelers' players were on their backs, getting loose for what they knew would be a physical game that would take its toll on their bodies when Vontaze Burfict walked over to their side of the field.Įven the Bengals' players had a feeling Burfict was going to create a stir Sunday.
