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DeAngelo Williams: Burfict hit cost Steelers SB 50 run

While the Bengals are turning to their offseason program to "exorcise" demons from their devastating playoff loss in January, the Steelers are still wondering if that hard-hitting game cost them a chance at Super Bowl 50.

Playing without All Pro receiver Antonio Brown, the Steelers (396 yards) outgained the Broncos (324 yards) only to lose the Divisional Round tilt when Courtney Roby forced a Fitzgerald Toussaint fumble to turn the game in the fourth quarter.

Had Cincinnati linebacker Vontaze Burfict not lowered the boom on Brown, knocking the NFL's best wide receiver out of commission the next week, there's no telling what would have happened between Pittsburgh and Denver.