Mike Tomlin: ‘No reservations’ about Ben Roethlisberger in Week 8

The offensive line, which we were critical of last week, played a 60-minute game today, and the rest of the offense reaped the benefits.

According to head coach Mike Tomlin, Ben Roethlisberger is expected to start against the Bengals on Sunday, barring any setbacks during practice this week.

Plays of the day: + Jones looked like anything but a backup in the first quarter of the game, eventually spreading the ball around to five different receivers while leading the team on a promising nine-play drive that had them facing a 3rd-and-2 at the KC 6.

Pittsburgh quarterback Landry Jones three for 209 yards, but threw two interceptions and lost a fumble. That was the appropriate thing to do.

“There’s always a concern in that regard whenever someone is coming off an injury, but we’re not going to lose a lot of sleep over that”, said Tomlin.

“We’ll move forward with Ben as we prepare this week”, Tomlin said. Antonio Brown turned in a 124-yard day as he rotated between corners Sean Smith and Marcus Peters for most of the day.

LeVeon Bell ran for 121 yards for the Steelers (4-3), who had won three consecutive against Kansas City.

Pittsburgh, which went 2-2 without Roethlisberger, is 4-3 overall and 2½ games behind the Bengals for the top spot in the AFC North.

I’m not even considering the 2-5 Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs, San Diego Chargers, Houston Texans, or Jacksonville Jaguars as teams who can pass the Bengals in the playoff standings.

With Fisher back on the left side the Chiefs seemed to find a rhythm throughout the game. “Like I said, it’s going to be coach’s decision”.

“I know we can do that”, Blake said. A few things we won’t tolerate: personal attacks, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity (including expletives and letters followed by dashes), commercial promotion, impersonations, incoherence, proselytizing and SHOUTING.

West had 110 rushing yards and a touchdown on 22 carries, adding 19 receiving yards on two catches.

It was a complete team victory, too.

“That feeling in the locker room?” The Chiefs were without Charles, but they had a speedy Charcandrick West to fill the void. It helped that on one rush, Bell rumbled 42 yards.

William Gay may be limited this week, though. Safety Will Allen was inactive with an ankle injury, while Cortez Allen recently went on injured reserve. “We can go to no-huddle and get up tempo, so it is going to be a big boost to our offense”. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can. He added a short run on an option play to convert another third down, and Smith hit Conley with the touchdowns pass from six yards out with 5:13 left to put the game away.

“We just have to try to limit the amount of space this guy has when he catches the ball till we have the first penetrators in”, Simmons said.

SACK ATTACK: Hali’s first multi-sack game since December 2013 gave him 82 1/2 sacks for his career, four behind Neil Smith for second on the franchise list.

MACLIN’S SITUATION: Maclin passed the NFL’s concussion protocol late in the week, but he was examined again on Sunday and the Chiefs’ training staff chose to sit him out.

Reid, a former offensive lineman himself, said he likes to see attitude, such as displaying extra effort in finishing blocks or the willingness to step in and protect teammates, from the players along the offensive line.