The Steelers jumped out to an early lead, fell behind and roared back to beat the Lions and escape last place! The day belonged to “Big” Ben Roethlisberger as he showed everyone why he is still an elite quarterback. He\u00a0helped\u00a0the Steelers jump out\u00a0to a 17-3 lead with two touchdowns, then brought them\u00a0back from a 27-20 deficit with two more touchdown throws in the fourth quarter, including\u00a0one\u00a0that ended\u00a0a 96 yard drive to take the lead.<\/p>\n
It was a very strange day for the defense,\u00a0on paper it was a pretty lousy,\u00a0they allowed 27 points, 16 first downs and 379\u00a0yards in the first half. But whatever happened during the 12 minutes between half time, change the course of the day,\u00a0as they shut out the Lions and held them to 72 yards and five first downs after\u00a0halftime.<\/p>\n
The Steelers held\u00a0Matthew Stafford\u00a0to 35 yards on just 3 of 16 completions in the second half and they held Calvin Johnson to ZERO Catches. Johnson finished the day with six catches for 179 yards and two touchdowns which are huge numbers, but he racked up 79 Yards on one catch that the Steelers defended but couldn’t make the tackle on. Ike Taylor played a good game despite the numbers and he dropped two sure interceptions. The defense made whatever adjustments that were needed and won the turnover battle.<\/p>\n
The front seven played a pretty consistent day and despite missing LaMarr Woodley and Brett Keisel held their own. Ziggy Hood, starting for injured Keisel, played very well\u00a0including the clinching\u00a0sack. \u00a0Cam Heyward is just getting better every week and he had another huge\u00a0game,\u00a0Steve McLendon made the biggest play of the day\u00a0crushing Sam Martin causing a fumble on the Lions\u00a0fake field-goal attempt\u00a0from the Steelers 10. It changed the momentum of the game as\u00a0the Steelers recovered, drove 96 yards for a touchdown, and the Lions never led again the rest of the day. Jason Worilds played well for the injured Woodley as he recorded the other sack.<\/p>\n
All week the talk was of Ndamukong Suh and how he was going to shred the Steelers offensive line. Like Mario Williams the week before, Suh was a non-factor as he was pushed around by Dave DeCastro all day. Suh didn’t even record a tackle. The Steelers couldn’t move the ball at all on the ground but the protection was solid\u00a0and it showed what Ben can do when he actually has time to make a play. Antonio Brown continues to be a huge playmaker has he racked up his second 100-yard game in a row and third this season, he put a monster\u00a0seven catches for 147 yards and touchdowns of 34 and 47 yards. Brown ran 30 and 38 yards, respectively, after each catch. No catch was bigger though the 16 yarder that kept alive the 96 yards drive.\u00a0Eight different players caught passes, including Will Johnson\u2019s first touchdown of the\u00a0season to take the lead.<\/p>\n
It was a great comeback and the Steelers have now won two in a row and four out of six.<\/p>\n
BEER WE GO STEELERS, BEER WE GO!!!<\/p>\n
My \u201cGAME BEER\u201d goes to<\/strong>:\u00a0“Big” Ben Roethlisberger, all week he has been the subject of several rumors, he proved Sunday that if he has some protection he can play with anyone in this league. He put together a huge day and\u00a0showed the kind of player he is. Great day by Big Ben. Also Considered, Will Johnson, 1st TD of the year, Antonio Brown\u00a0who we could get hammered for all the “Game Beers” we\u00a0could win. All the guys on the defensive line.<\/p>\n Where I watched the game: <\/strong>Back home on the couch\u00a0with my kids (who shuttle in an out)\u00a0and KGB. I actually wanted to go out but this is the first 1PM that I got to watch at home since week one. I banged out local beers from Long Island, We had Celtic Ale from Long Ireland and White Bite from Spider Bite. I made a huge pot of sauce with San Marzano Tomatoes and KGB made Chicken Cutlets for Chicken Parm. GREAT MEAL, GREAT BEER, GREAT WIN!<\/p>\n My Stat of the week: <\/strong>119.4 which was Big Ben’s QB rating, which was\u00a0comprised of 367 yards passing, four touchdowns and\u00a0NO TURNOVERS. Bravo Big Ben!<\/p>\n My thoughts on Next Week: <\/strong>The Steelers head to their Arch Rivals in Cleveland. This is a statement game and the Steelers need to make sure it isn’t a trap game, as the Ravens loom very large on Thanksgiving Day! The Steelers need to play four quarters of defense and wait for the Browns to beat themselves.\u00a0They can send the Browns into last place with a victory. Look for the Steelers to grind out a win like they did last week again Buffalo.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Steelers jumped out to an early lead, fell behind and roared back to beat the Lions and escape last place! The day belonged to “Big” Ben Roethlisberger as he showed everyone why he is still an elite quarterback. He\u00a0helped\u00a0the Steelers jump out\u00a0to a 17-3 lead with two touchdowns, then brought them\u00a0back from a 27-20 […]<\/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-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwg-gr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","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=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}