Giants asking for clarification on some officiating calls Sunday

They were dubbed Super Bowl contenders, shoo-ins for the playoffs and a legitimate threat to the Cowboys. Usually 10 is a magic number when it comes to getting into the playoffs and the Steelers just have to go 3-1 to get there.

A lot of questions were beginning to percolate discussions about the New York Giants win streak prior to Sunday’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. So let’s dive into it all. That game was the start of the Ravens’ four-game winning streak against the Steelers. They ended that drive with a Randy Bullock field goal to take a 5-0 lead.

“He’s got to be careful with that, ” Manning said Monday night on WFAN.

One was guard David DeCastro’s seventh holding penalty of the season.

Giants: Played the second half without defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul, who left in the second quarter with a groin injury. If he can fix that, he could rack up even more yards down the line.

Odell Beckham Jr.is trying to turn over a new leaf.

The Steelers have an ironclad way of turning a middling season into another big opportunity in the postseason.

-Roethlisberger has passed for 3,000 yards for the 11th consecutive season. Eli Manning is truly the strangest anomaly in the National Football League, and with each passing week, his pedigree and ability becomes more ambiguous. Pittsburgh up 14-0. But there’s nothing wrong with being like a basketball coach who argues about a foul in the first quarter to get the right call in the fourth quarter. Sunday was one of the unit’s better outings of the season. Bell then ran for 7 yards on the next play. Ben Roethlisberger had 24 completions for 289 yards and two touchdowns. They went for it on fourth down.

The Steelers came back swinging. Green caught six passes for 110 yards and his first touchdown of the season.

In addition to Bell, Green and Brown also had six catches to tie for the team high.

Roethlisberger said the touchdown to Brown required “total trust” because he risked an interception if the wide receiver didn’t read the throw correctly. McAdoo said he welcomes such a chat and pointed to the team’s overall ineffectiveness on offense as a reason why a receiver going without a look is an issue for the second straight week. They had to go for it on 4th and 13 though. Manning hoisted the ball which fell short into the arms of Steelers’ safety Sean Davis.

“I’d have felt bad if I didn’t pull him up off of him, because they were bending him – 91 was bending him pretty good”. No flag was thrown and Pittsburgh cashed in with a 37-yard reception by tight end Ladarius Green. It ensured the defense had enough fresh legs to get key sacks and takeaways on Eli Manning.

Bell carried the ball, and the Steelers, down the field, including 12 and 19 yard runs. On fourth down, instead of knocking the ball down at the 6-yard line, the rookie returned it 41 yards. Pittsburgh up 24-7. Keep in mind that the Giants line up in this formation nearly 95 percent of the time. True, he was grabbed and molested for a good part of the game and was flagged on weak offensive PI penalty but the calls went both ways in this game. Beckham explained afterward he wished Brown did not score against the Giants; the smile was an expression of respect and admiration for the catch. The Steelers are 1-4 when he attempts more than 40 passes. An unsatisfactory performance was padded a little because of a late touchdown to Sterling Shepard. Pushovers during a humbling four-game slide that took the swagger out of their 4-1 start, the Steelers are starting to do the pushing while ripping off decisive victories over Cleveland, Indianapolis and NY. A couple Steelers offensive linemen said that the Giants were throwing cheap shots. The offense did well, as you might expect. Next week they’re at Buffalo.