National Football League admits officials missed clock error in Chargers-Steelers game

Those value judgments are subjective, and dependent upon the outcome.

Vick reminded the Chargers he could still run the ball if needed, but that isn’t often with the Steelers because they have Le’Veon Bell.

-COACHING: B. Mike Tomlin was aggressive and went for the win instead of the tie on the road. On the night he was a pedestrian 13-of-26 for 203 yards with a touchdown and an interception.

Haley and the offense has had to go back to the well and get creative in an effort to try to generate offense not simply without Roethlisberger, but with a quarterback who still has a partially limited understanding, or at least level of comfort, with the offense. “He put the play together on the sideline and that’s it”.

The Steelers won their first West Coast game in the Tomlin era and their first game in the Pacific Time Zone since Roethlisberger guided them to a win over the Chargers in 2005. No one on the field noticed.

The Steelers stalled a bit once they entered Charger territory, eventually facing a third and 6.

Tomlin got this one right.

Truth be told, the defense is what gave a struggling Mike Vick and the Steelers’ offense a chance to find itself late after its own run of mid-game ineptitude. The quarterback stressed he is going to be smart with his return and make sure he is totally healthy first. We were talking about it all week.

When he crossed the goal line, the clock still had two seconds showing. He finished the game with 111 yards on just 21 carries, good for an astounding 5.3 yards per carry. Pittsburgh could have split the difference.

In the second, the Steelers rode Le’Veon Bell to a 9-play, 47-yard drive that resulted in a 47-yard Chris Boswell field goal. Atlanta also had to go to overtime to beat Washington, 25-19. It was Nix who buried Pro Bowl safety Eric Weddle on the final play of the game, which allowed Bell a crease to the goal line. And it had yet to work.

Of course, star quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was never particularly thrilled with the idea, as it forced him to run out to the perimeter and line up as a “wide receiver”, which he felt wasted valuable time between plays and was an obviously ineffective decoy.

I would not say that’s comparable. However, a defensive penalty in which a defender led with his helmet in tackling Miller, brought the ball from the one to the half yard line, setting up the final play. Eight days earlier, the rookie kicked a 34-yarder as time expired for a 30-27 win over Cleveland.

“I think he wants to give me the ball”, Brown said of Vick. This game-winning drive ended, when Bell took a direct snap and charged to his left, where he had to fight through a Donald Butler tackle, and then Bell had to lunge forward so he could stretch the ball into the end zone. A review confirmed the touchdown and the hard-earned win for Pittsburgh. Still, it was nice to see the team get a win without him.