The Steelers slept through the first half of the game in Oakland and put their season’s slim hopes to final rest in\u00a0a strange, over officiated game Sunday. The Steelers\u00a0had\u00a0an abysmal first half and just couldn’t recover in time. Coming off an emotional win against the Rat Birds\u00a0and with New England looming this had all the makings of a “trap” game and it played out exactly that way. By the time the Steelers came around it was too late. <\/p>\n
The defense was torched in the first half for an astonishing 244 yards and looked like they were playing in cement shoes. They allowed a season-high 197 yards rushing to the Raiders and three rushing touchdowns, including a 93 yard run to daylight by Terrell Prior. That raised the season total of rushing TDs allowed to nine\u00a0or another to way to put it as\u00a0many as they gave up all of last\u00a0season. Vince Williams and LaMarr Woodley got caught out of position several times. The defense\u00a0eventually made the adjustments and pushed the Raiders into three turnovers but the damage was done and the offense had to dig out.<\/p>\n
The offense looked completely disjointed and\u00a0the offensive line\u00a0play was downright dangerous.\u00a0The Steelers lost both Dave DeCastro, Ramon Foster and Guy Whimper. The lack of protection made it nearly impossible to run the ball and Ben was running for his life the whole game. Despite that\u00a0both units had productive days in the second half\u00a0and it looked almost like the Steelers flipped a switch to start playing. They put together several great second half drives including a nine minute drive…that came up empty.<\/p>\n
The Special teams coming off their best week played their worst game of the season, Shaun Suisham finally missed after making 15 field goals to start the season, and he did it twice from 34 and 32 yards.\u00a0It is easy to point out that that was the difference in the result, but the Steelers blew several chances. Zoltan Mesko finally showed some signs of life\u00a0but he\u00a0cost the Steelers a touchdown with a muffed snap and\u00a0had some trouble getting any kind of consistency.<\/p>\n
The whole team just looked out of whack.\u00a0Antonio Brown, Ryan Clark, LaMarr Woodley,\u00a0Heath Miller, Manny Sanders, Ben Roethlisberger\u00a0ALL made costly mistakes. The Steelers mismanaged the\u00a0clock and made several\u00a0key errors that added up to the loss. By the time they got it going,\u00a0it was too little too late and it looks like the season is now officially over.<\/p>\n
The Steelers have now lost\u00a05 games this year, which is a travesty, what makes it worse, is they lost to\u00a0Terrelle Prior, Jake Locker and\u00a0Matt Cassel (who lost the job a week later). Those guys\u00a0aren’t exactly Montana, Marino and Elway. Next on deck is Tom Brady, so brace yourself.<\/p>\n
BEER WE GO STEELERS, BEER WE GO!<\/p>\n
My \u201cGAME BEER\u201d goes to<\/strong>:\u00a0NO ONE, seriously there were good performances but you are talking about half the game. Maybe we can give out half a beer.<\/p>\n Where I watched the game: <\/strong>Stayed home after a great Halloween party the night before. We were\u00a0very excited as we got pizza from Al\u2019Italia and we had enough pumpkin beer to float a battleship. We had the fireplace going and KGB cuddle up to me on the couch, it had the potential for a great afternoon. Then the first half of the game happened!\u00a0The Beer of choice was Anderson Pumpkin Patch, it was pretty good but I will never drink it again after that game! The only highlight was proudly watching\u00a0as my son Dante\u00a0was literally praying for the Steelers to make the comeback!\u00a0We were\u00a0very proud of him!<\/p>\n My Stat of the week: <\/strong>35 Yards of total offense in the second half, the Steelers made the adjustments they needed and kept the Raiders off the board. If only they played in the first half.<\/p>\n My thoughts on Next Week: <\/strong>It is going to be a long day v. Tom Brady and the Patriots. KGB’s prediction is in this upside down season we lose to the Raiders but beat the Patriots. Let’s hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Steelers slept through the first half of the game in Oakland and put their season’s slim hopes to final rest in\u00a0a strange, over officiated game Sunday. The Steelers\u00a0had\u00a0an abysmal first half and just couldn’t recover in time. Coming off an emotional win against the Rat Birds\u00a0and with New England looming this had all the […]<\/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-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwg-gr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","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=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}