4 things that stood out vs. Broncos

Brown became the first player since the 1970 merger to catch 15 passes in a game twice in the same season. Roethlisberger hit Brown for two second-half touchdowns, and on both of those scores, Brown beat Denver cornerback Chris Harris, who hadn’t given up a touchdown since Week 12 of the 2013 season. NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport said Denver’s quarterback situation is “very uncomfortable and hard”.

“We did what we needed to do to get the job done”, Foster said. “Obviously, he did before it was all said and done”.

Explosive wide receiver Antonio Brown is in the discussion when it comes to being the best player at his position in the NFL.

McCarron threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Tyler Kroft just before halftime. I definitely let the team down. Osweiler took to the locker room with 214 passing yards and three interceptions. “And we went out and played in the second half”. He is now leading the National Football League in yards after the catch for a receiver with 483 yards.

If the Broncos have any sense, the first thing they do on defense should be to put their best cover corner on Steelers superstar receiver Antonio Brown.

Brown is second in the National Football League in receptions (100) and receiving yards (1,397). It was his sixth 300-yard passing day of the season, a franchise record.

“All those outside guys deserve all the credit they get”, Wallace said.

The stakes can’t get much higher than this game.

“We are doing some X-rays tomorrow to find out”, he said. The fact that Manning was willing to work with the scout team on Wednesday and Thursday should be proof that he’s been open to a role that for so many years has been beneath him. “The big goal is to win the AFC North and then we take it from there”. The TD was nullified and the ball placed at Denver’s 28. Jordan Norwood scooped up a punt that Shamarko Thomas failed to touch down. A couple of Denver linemen – all the way on the other side of the field – thought the play was dead.

There are reports coming from National Football League insider Ian Rapoport that Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning has no interest in being a backup.

“We stopped kicking our own butt”, the veteran coach said. “There’s nothing wrong with that play“. The Steelers won 34-27.

I wonder if Big Ben is going to try and exploit that.

It wasn’t “The Christmas Carol”, but was more like a tale of two halves. The Steelers made several changes in their coverage to hold the Broncos scoreless in the second half. Three plays later, Ben Roethlisberger threw a 23-yard touchdown to Brown on a post route for the winning touchdown. In the second half, though, he was seven of 26 for just 82 yards as the Broncos surrendered their 17-point advantage.

Star Wars numbers in the first half. For the Broncos, that was the Raiders game. His unit would not score a single second half point for the third consecutive game. The race for the two Wild Card sports in the AFC will likely go down to a contest between these three teams, and the Jets need to make sure they win out to give themselves the best chance of making the postseason. Some of that might be an overreaction to last week’s loss to Oakland, but Denver is catching a lot of points in this one.

However, near the end of the first half, Osweiler injured his non-throwing shoulder.

For the first time this season, the No Fly Zone didn’t help.

“It felt good to be back in front of Steeler Nation and they were waving the towels”. Also involved in the shouting match part were the Bengals’ Carlos Dunlap and the Steelers’ Ryan Shazier, Lawrence Timmons and Stephon Tuitt. When he was pulled from the November 13 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, it was the first time the 39-year-old quarterback had ever left a game because of performance or injury.