Antonio Brown, Steelers, more comfortable with Michael Vick, fantasy potential

There are numerous things that the Pittsburgh Steelers must do, and do correctly, to leave San Diego with a win over the Chargers on Monday night. They acquired Scobee in August in a trade with Jacksonville (with whom he spent the first 11 years of his career) but he struggled through four games: 3-of-7 on field-goal attempts between 40-49 yards and 6-of-10 overall. Chargers TE Antonio Gates makes season debut after serving four-game suspension without pay for testing positive for PEDs. Brown, who couldn’t hold onto a touchdown pass last week, said that the comfort level is higher this time around. Givens’ speed would seem to be a good fit for Joe Flacco’s deep ball targets. Bell scored once and caught seven passes for 21 yards. And while offensive coordinator Todd Haley said he would like to give DeAngelo Williams more reps, it’s hard to take Bell out of the game.

“I was generally pleased with the performance of Mike Vick”, coach Mike Tomlin said on Tuesday. As a result, he has yet to kick in a regular-season National Football League game. The Chargers won the last game in San Diego in 2006 (23-13) and the last game in Pittsburgh in 2012 (32-24). We can’t do that. We understand what it takes. “We have a great deal of the comfort with him”, Tomlin said, “and we are excited about rallying around him and supporting him”. Vick coming off first start with Steelers in a loss to Baltimore. The Steelers D/ST is a middling option on the road against a solid Chargers offense this week.

At 2-2, the Steelers can’t afford too much of an adjustment period if they want to have a winning record when Roethlisberger returns to the lineup. Hence, Josh Scobee came up short trying to stick to his guns for more than four weeks, failing to master Heinz Field in his brief tenure as the kicker for the Steelers.

QUOTE TO NOTE: “Ben and Antonio have chemistry, that’s out of this world”. “We’re ready to go”. 

But it’s less about how Rivers reacts to pressure when he has time to throw and more about the Steelers making sure that pressure gets home when they send it.

There are no guarantees on how much either will play as Gates returns from suspension and Shazier tries to recover from a right shoulder injury. Heyward has 17 combined tackles, two sacks, a forced fumble and has been more disruptive than his stars show.

If Bryant does play, he’d be a huge addition for Vick, who is filling in for an injured Ben Roethlisberger. “Wide receiver Markus Wheaton “looks dramatically improved” after leaving the game Thursday with an ankle injury. The best way for the Steelers to do this is by applying pressure and getting sacks, and based on how well they’ve done at getting after opposing quarterbacks thus far, it should be something the defense can accomplish on Monday night. The Steelers expect to be a playoff team and they wanted a few experience with a kicker.