For one quarter the Steelers played like the Steelers used to play, running the ball and playing solid defense…and then it was over and the Steelers were dominated by the Cleveland Browns falling to last place in the AFC North. It was the worse loss for the Steelers ever to the “new” Browns dropping the game 31-10.<\/p>\n
The offense moved the ball up and down the field,\u00a0but once again could\u00a0not get in the end zone.\u00a0Whoever is making the play calls, seems lost.\u00a0It was run first for sure, which would have been refreshing, until it was short yardage situation\u00a0then the plan was throw it down the field. It is impossible to figure the offensive game plan out, whether it is\u00a0passing long on several short yardage\u00a0opportunities\u00a0or\u00a0watching 5′-8″ 183 pound Dri Archer\u00a0running dives into the line.<\/p>\n
Ben Roethlisberger has been awful these last few weeks, he over threw and under threw receivers all day long. He completed just 50% of his passes and looked completely lost. The protection was solid all day, but it never translated to points.\u00a0The\u00a0offense has\u00a0scored two touchdowns in the last two weeks against the Browns and Jaguars, two of the worse teams in the league. It was a terrible performance.<\/p>\n
Le’Veon Bell, LeGarrette Blount and Dri Archer\u00a0were\u00a0able\u00a0to run the ball well, but\u00a0once the team\u00a0found\u00a0itself buried under and avalanche of points. The Steelers had to abandon the run. Antonio Brown put on his usual\u00a0dynamic performance but he was the lone bright spot in the passing game.<\/p>\n
The defense also seems to have lost it’s way. The coverage is awful, there is no way to put it other than that. Cortez Allen had a horrific game\u00a0and was constantly\u00a0beat for big plays, couple that with the ineffective play of Dri Archer and again you have to wonder if the Steelers really should have addressed the Cornerback position in the 3rd round.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0front seven looks completely undisciplined and was gashed on several misdirection plays because of over pursuit and failure to maintain their gaps. Brett Keisel had to tackle\u00a0Cameron Jordan 4o yards\u00a0down the field on a reverse bootleg.\u00a0And will there ever be a pass rush again? Where is Jason Worilds? Where are the Dick LeBeau blitz packages? What has happened to the defense, former Coach Cowher said the Steelers are now soft on defense and it is hard to argue.<\/p>\n
The special teams reared it’s ugly head again. Brad Wing fumbled a long snap that cost the Steelers three points and seemed to swing the momentum over to the Browns. Dri Archer is a\u00a0disaster right now in kick returns.<\/p>\n
The Steelers have lost to the Browns before of course, but since the “new” Browns have shown up, I can’t remember a loss where I felt the Steelers didn’t blow the game. The Browns thoroughly won this game and dominated it.<\/p>\n
It’s on to Houston next week.<\/p>\n
BEER WE GO STEELERS, BEER WE GO!<\/p>\n
My \u201cGAME BEER\u201d goes to<\/strong>:\u00a0NOBODY, Seriously, we have said it before but for the first time in the history of Beer We Go Steelers, We aren’t giving out a game beer!<\/p>\n Where I watched the game: <\/strong>At the house, with my 8 year old son Dante, sitting next to him for a game is how I imagine watching a game with Troy would be, he bounces all over the place and is up and down on the couch off the couch. We went out at half time and threw the ball around the yard. KGB and Little Miss Tailgate went food shopping during the first half. KGB made\u00a0Italian Panini sandwiches\u00a0with a little held from Citarelli’s, in Eastport.\u00a0The Beer of choice was Sam again and then we switched to Dos Equis to try and change the luck. NO GOOD<\/p>\n My Stat of the week: <\/strong>The score was 31-10, my stat\/fact it was the worse loss to the Browns since the Steelers were creamed 51-0 in opener of\u00a01989!<\/p>\n My thoughts on Next Week: <\/strong>Scared to death. How could I post anything other than that. There is no way the Steelers can be favored in this game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For one quarter the Steelers played like the Steelers used to play, running the ball and playing solid defense…and then it was over and the Steelers were dominated by the Cleveland Browns falling to last place in the AFC North. It was the worse loss for the Steelers ever to the “new” Browns dropping 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-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwg-gr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","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=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}