Steelers focused on Ravens, not playoff scenarios
Pittsburgh Steelers and quarterback Ben Roethlisberger are showing the entire league what could have been this season. “He’s a leader, he’s a warrior and he gave up everything for his team (Sunday)”.
-RB C.J. Anderson returned from an ankle injury to play 37 snaps Sunday, just two fewer than Ronnie Hillman.
The Steelers controlled the second half, finally taking the lead when Ryan Shazier intercepted Brock Osweiler to set up a 23-yard dart from Roethlisberger to Brown with 3 minutes, 34 seconds to go. He ran for 76 yards and a touchdown against the Ravens last week. You give that quarterback that many opportunities, sooner or later he is going to make you pay.
They have a big game coming up against the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday Night Football in Week 16. He was in coverage on both of Brown’s touchdowns. “We’ll just have to do the best that we can to balance all those things out”, Belichick said. I watched Rice as a kid, and grew up watching the 49ers when they were on nationally, but Brown is a different player. They have a head coach in Todd Bowles that runs the locker room, who doesn’t let someone like Santonio Holmes detonate the team, and doesn’t belch a hollow Super Bowl guarantee every year.
“You have to make great plays to be successful….”
In the next team meeting, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin might as well point to the second half of Sunday’s game at Heinz Field and say, Well, keep doing that.
The Broncos couldn’t shut down Antonio Brown.
“I couldn’t step. I couldn’t plant off of it”, Bruton said Monday. Our defense got us in some good positions as far as being on a short, and we made it happen. With the way he’s been playing, you want to know that everyone on the team, including Manning, has your back as you’re trying to get this team to the playoffs. In 1997, the Steelers overcame a big deficit in the first half to come away with the win. Brown has 64 catches for 868 yards in that same span.
Three plays later, Antonio Brown had his second score, and Pittsburgh had an 87.87 percent chance to close out the game. Wes Welker is the only other player to achieve that feat. In fact, if he had over 1,700 last season, he would’ve been the first WR to finish with a 1,700-yard season. He may be the Jerry Rice of this new generation. Four incompletions, they did it one more time.
“We’ve been battle tested”, defensive end Cam Heyward said. “We have to win out”. Jordan Norwood scooped up a punt that Shamarko Thomas failed to touch down. One of them will start Week 16. “There’s nothing wrong with that play. He needs to pick the ball up and hand it to the official”. “That was just complete negligence on our part”. “That is one issue and one I’m told he’s pretty serious about”. Here’s a look at how former Tennessee Volunteers played in Week 15 of play. “We have to get two more”. “We’ll have to work our way through all that”. The Falcons (7-7) had lost six consecutive, including a 38-0 loss last week at Carolina.
“It felt good to start fast”, Sanders said. “So we’re focused on delivering the mail”. “There are some things I should have done better in the second half”. – S Mike Mitchell on what was said at halftime. They drafted me in the third round [in 2010], and I’m forever thankful for that opportunity. I feel like those guys are growing up a lot.
Eric Berry: The Kansas City Chiefs safety had four tackles in a 34-14 win against the Baltimore Ravens.