Despite being left for dead by the national media and being completely and utterly cheated by the refs the Steelers dominated the Raiders! After an opening drive that saw them go seven plays for 45 yards, the Raiders\u00a0managed little the rest of the game netting only 182 total yards. It was a thoroughly dominant performance all around for the\u00a0Steelers.<\/p>\n
The Steelers defense again completely just annihilated the Raiders. Darren McFadden who was averaging over 100 yards a game had a whopping 14 yards on 10 carries.\u00a0The front seven played there most complete game since the Titans this week. Running all kinds of Blitzes and Stunts\u00a0they just closed down every running\u00a0lane!\u00a0<\/p>\n
James Harrison is probably one of the\u00a0m exciting\u00a0players to watch. Despite being held on nearly every play and absolutely getting jobbed by the refs he played an amazing game chiming in with two very big sacks and two forced fumbles. James Farrior has turned back the clock and played his best game of the season as well. He is clearly\u00a0the team leader and he\u00a0plays like it every week.\u00a0His sack of Jason Campbell set the tone\u00a0and basically swung the momentum back to the Steelers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The secondary had a\u00a0very good\u00a0game.\u00a0The only lowlight\u00a0was Ryan “Crash” Clark who actually knocked himself out on one play. It was impressive that he received a helmet to helmet hit penalty as he never hit the receiver\u2019s helmet or was close to it. THIS WAS COMPLETE\u00a0NONSENSE and summed up the refs entire\u00a0rotten, embarrassing performance. Troy had a big interception.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jason Campbell was confused and battered\u00a0to the point that local Pittsburgh\u00a0hero Bruce Gradkowski had to come in for relief. He faired almost as poorly as\u00a0his first possession wound\u00a0up in a turnover.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
What made this game\u00a0special though was\u00a0how the offense played a\u00a0complete\u00a0game. Ben finally had a breakout game\u00a0despite being punched in the mouth by Richard Seymour. Not going to lie I actually got a kick out of that and liked how Kemo smacked Seymour.\u00a0\u00a0The Offensive line continues to get hurt every week but after an abysmal performance last week, Jonathon Scott played a\u00a0tough game including erasing the defensive lineman on\u00a0Ben’s 16 yard scramble.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rashard Mendenhall played struggled but banged out yards as they were needed. The rest of the team ran pretty much at will with Ben having a big day scrambling and Isaac Redman doing a solid job on pushing the pile.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The receivers are again the differential this week on offense. I simply don’t buy that this team misses Santonio. While I love the guy and he is lighting it up\u00a0in NY. These guys are getting better and better every week.\u00a0With eight guys chiming in for a catch and Mike Wallace again just putting on a superman like performance\u00a0I think next to the linebackers this is the team’s greatest strength. It is great to see Antonio Brown and Manny Sanders becoming part of the passing game as both are burners!\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is hard to say that this game was a must win\u00a0but after the thrashing the week before,\u00a0it was a great bounce back game! Not to mention that the Raiders\u00a0ruined one of my trips to Heinz field last year!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
BEER WE GO STEELERS, BEER WE GO!\u00a0<\/p>\n
My \u201cGAME BEER\u201d goes to<\/strong>: I actually got permission from Captain Tailgate and I am providing two game beers. One to James Harrison, SILVERBACK!!!! The guy is simply devastating and embodies the thunder of the Steelers defense. My second game beer goes to James Farrior. He is a true leader and just gets it done. LOVE “THE JAMES GANG”!\u00a0<\/p>\n Where I watched the game: <\/strong>This is actually going to be a spinoff story. I watched it at Nathaniel\u2019s in Rochester with some of my closest friends in business and the local guys who were BWG all the way! They made me feel welcome and really we had an awesome time!\u00a0We had an entire section dedicated to the Steelers and the bar was raucous.\u00a0<\/p>\n My thoughts on Next Week: <\/strong>Next week is Buffalo which should be a beat down. I have to give the Bills credit after being banished from the big screen at\u00a0Nathaniel, they made a nice comeback at the hands of the talk big, play small Bengals.\u00a0<\/p>\n I expect the Steelers to give Harvard\u00a0QB Ryan\u00a0Fitzpatrick a true education!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite being left for dead by the national media and being completely and utterly cheated by the refs the Steelers dominated the Raiders! After an opening drive that saw them go seven plays for 45 yards, the Raiders\u00a0managed little the rest of the game netting only 182 total yards. It was a thoroughly dominant performance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwg-gr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}