Turnovers costly in Steelers’ 39-30 loss to Seahawks

Graham tore the patellar tendon in his knee and will be out for the season.

Okung knows something about good football.

The loss to the Seahawks.

The Steelers soon regained the lead though as Markus Wheaton hauled in a 69-yard catch from Roethlisberger just 37 seconds after Rawls’s effort, but the two-point conversion attempt was intercepted by Sherman. A bad day by the defense. An ill-timed, badly designed fake-field goal try.

“This is the time when teams make their push for the playoffs”, Heyward said. If there was one game the Steelers could afford to lose the rest of the way it was that one. “We needed every bit of it today”.

Shead will continue as the starter after his performance on Sunday. Remaining games against patsies Baltimore (3-7), Cleveland (2-8) and St. Louis (4-7) are shoehorned by a pair of real challenges – next Sunday’s visit to Minnesota (8-3) and a season-ending stop at Arizona. In fact, Wilson was 10 of 11 on passes that went 10 or more yards in the air for 260 yards, according to PFF. He did not return to the game on the Steelers’ next offensive possession. “I thought Ben was awesome and his receivers were fantastic”. They converted five of them. Head coach Pete Carroll wasn’t buying the premise at his Monday press conference. That essentially ended Seattle’s chances for a third consecutive NFC West title.

INDIANAPOLIS Matt Hasselbeck threw for 315 yards and two touchdowns and Adam Vinatieri made four more field goals for the Colts. “He loves this game and he wants to play for his teammates and play the game that he loves and he’s not going to get to do that”, Carroll said. “So many times we had them third-and-long and didn’t capitalize”.

Wilson was at his best on throws downfield. Ben Roethlisberger passed for 456 yards but also threw a pair of interceptions before taking himself out of the game late to be checked for a concussion. Pittsburgh did score two rushing touchdowns, one from DeAngelo Williams and one from Martavis Bryant on a reverse.

The Steelers led at the end of each of the first three quarters, but could not hang on and fell 39-30.

Defending his decisions at halftime, Steelers Nation has to like what Tomlin said on camera “We’re not going to live in our fear, we’re going to live in our hope”. We’ve got to be a special scoring offense.

Roethlisberger’s stats may have been gaudy as he threw the ball an incredible 55 times, but it was his two interceptions that proved to be very costly. Finishing might be a different story. Roethlisberger’s concussion was not as easy to spot as Keenum’s, given that most fans were unsure why he left the game late.

The Steelers have played in Seattle just once since 1994 and haven’t won in the Northwest since 1983. This has not been his year because of knee and foot injuries and, now, a potential concussion. A 4-1 finish will get them into the playoffs.

Baldwin’s three-TD game was the first of his career. His offense put up 30, 30, and 38 points.

Pittsburgh led 21-14 when Boswell hit a 25-yard field goal, but Thomas Rawls cut the deficit to one point with a one-yard plunge to set up an action-packed last quarter. It’s not a must-win game, but it’s close.

The Steelers would have to go 5-0 to avoid losing on a tiebreaker in that scenario. Graham was really starting to find a rhythm in the Seahawks passing game, so with him now lost for the year, how will the passing game look going forward? “This is an unbelievable win for us”. We’ve got to make it happen. “We made some mistakes that gave him some chances that we normally would like to eliminate and we’ll get better at”. “That’s what this team does: We can count on each other”.