Pittsburgh Steelers Sammie Coates, DeAngelo Williams recovering; more injury updates

This year is no different even though they’re tied with the Ravens at 6-5, even though Pittsburgh has had to withstand its perennial Ben Roethlisberger injury.

The New York Football Giants (8-3) are doing just fine.

It has worked out, for the Giants and the Steelers, for 13 years and counting now.

The Steelers’ offense is their strength and the play of the Giants’ defense is how they win games. If Pittsburgh wants to keep pace with the Baltimore Ravens, who also have a 6-5 record but hold the edge over the Steelers by way of tiebreaker, they’ll have to win at least four of their next five games, starting with NY. We know that we set goals at the beginning of the season, and we bring them up. You always want your quarterback draft class to be well thought of and respected down the road.

Is it realistically doable against the Steelers defense on their turf? Eli believes they are close to breaking out.

For the Giants, they will be entering Pittsburgh with a six-game winning streak. The days of the stifling defense with Troy Polamalu, Joey Porter and James Farrior are gone, but this defense is growing. Both of them are fast and seldom leave the field.

So, no, they aren’t best buds.

The Steelers are looking to keep their winning streak going against the Giants next Sunday! Take a second to sign up for our FREE Steelers newsletter! Franco Harris was still a year away from getting drafted by Pittsburgh, but Mean Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw, L.C. Greenwood, Mel Blount and Jack Ham were on hand as the nucleus of a budding dynasty. The Pittsburgh offensive line has done a solid job of protecting the quarterback, only allowing 14 sacks. The rookie wide receiver may want to be careful or he won’t find himself seeing many targets again this week. Having a player like Shepard would certainly help.

Roethlisberger and the Steelers present the Giants with a challenge they haven’t faced in almost two months. “But sometimes you have to force them to come out”. “They don’t do a lot”. “It makes you feel rested, it makes you get more healed up for this stretch run that is when you have to play your best football”.

And to think, wide receiver isn’t even Le’Veon Bell’s natural position. Bell has also rushed for 146 and 120 yards the last two weeks.

“It was good to have him here, ” Eli Manning said. On the first offensive play of the game for the Colts, Butler dialed up a corner blitz where William Gay came in untouched and forced a fumble on Scott Tolzien.

“I really enjoy coach McAdoo”, he said.

Manning joined recently retired Liberty player Swin Cash, who was honored as Sportswoman of the Year, at the event, which annually attracts a who’s who of the sports television industry.

The Giants are not quite ready to give up on Gould, who was signed October 22 to replace Josh Brown as their kicker.

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The learning curve is starting to level off for Javon Hargrave, Artie Burns and Sean Davis. Burns has the look of a shut down corner, but has been abused by more polished receivers at the National Football League level. Plus, Manning could use a good performance to prove the sputtering offense can carry this team when it matters. Were just not getting down in the red zone enough.

A year removed from a torn ligament in his right knee that forced him to miss the second half of 2015, Bell looks as if he’s all the way back to the All-Pro form he showed in 2014 when he put up 2,215 yards of total offense.