Bengals and Steelers Slammed With Fines After Wild-Card Game

Ben Roethlisberger injured his shoulder at the end of the third quarter and, upon returning to the game, was unable to throw the ball more than ten to 15 yards downfield.

There’s a notion this game will feature plenty of check-downs and short passes because Manning will be making his first start in 64 days and Ben Roethlisberger is dealing with a sprained right shoulder.

The NFL levied fines totaling $63,685 on participants in the game, which isn’t even half the amount that came down after the teams’ regular-season game on December 13.

“I thought he did a nice job”, said head coach Mike Tomlin of Roethlisberger’s Friday practice performance.

After Cincinnati lost to Pittsburgh in the wild-card round of the playoffs last week, Bengals cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones basically blamed the loss on the refs for not noticing that Antonio Brown had “faked” his injury. None of them have played a game in Pittsburgh without Brown.

With Brown ruled out of Sunday’s AFC divisional playoff game against the Denver Broncos because of a concussion resulting from a hit by Burfict, Jones apologized to him on Friday. Brown has not practiced all week while following the NFL’s concussion protocol.

He finished second in the National Football League with 1,834 receiving yards on 136 catches with 10 touchdowns.

A tough matchup in Denver just got tougher and we may have seen Antonio Brown play his last game of the season last week. In only 11 games this season, Bryant posted 765 yards to go along with six touchdown receptions. “Shoot, I’m cutting him”.

“That was pretty much the last time I saw him”, Anderson said, with his fist punching his palm, “really, really, this is what we’re going to do, super detailed”.

“As I stated Monday, I was looking forward to the opportunity to get to know Jim”, Quinn said in a statement.

The Broncos wanted Brown to be healthy; that’s the most important aspect of this ongoing story.

“To not see him be there with us, we’ve got to do some bigger things that we haven’t done before to show him that we’ve got his back”, said Coates, a rookie who caught all of one pass in limited playing time.

The most obvious answer is their number two wide receiver, the freakishly tall, fast and athletic Martavis Bryant.

Christina Rivers has covered the Pittsburgh Steelers and National Football League professionally as a journalist and photographer for over a decade. Edelman is expected to play for the first time since breaking a bone in his foot in Week 10. I know he was faking it. Go back and look at the play.