With my entire family and the Beer We Go crew in attendance, the Steelers played lousy all day and in the end couldn’t overcome two turnovers, dropping a “must win” to the\u00a0Saints.<\/p>\n
Ben Roethlisberger had one of the worst games in his career, while his numbers will look good on paper, the game was an absolute wreck. He completed three of his first nine passes, missed a wide open Heath Miller several times\u00a0and was intercepted twice in the game. If the Saints didn’t drop interceptions, he could have been picked off\u00a0as many as five times. Very rarely do the Steelers have the disadvantage at QB, Sunday Drew Brees clearly out played Ben and carved up the Steelers weak secondary.<\/p>\n
The defense is\u00a0terrible, plain and simple. \u00a0It starts up front.\u00a0This should have been a strength for the Steelers but now looks like a liability.\u00a0The pass rush has been non-existent and the defensive line couldn’t hold the point of attack on the run.<\/p>\n
The Linebackers are not getting after the QB.\u00a0Jason Worilds and James Harrison both had their moments but both struggled. The Steelers, secondary couldn’t have played much worse even with Troy and Ike coming back. Both Willie Gay and Ike Taylor were burned by Kenny Stills for long passes\u00a0during the game. Antwon Blake and Brice McCain both\u00a0made critical mistakes. Troy Polamalu and Mike Mitchell were both non-existent.<\/p>\n
The bright spots were of course Le’Veon Bell and Antonio Brown. Bell was nearly unstoppable in\u00a0the first half and\u00a0Antonio Brown\u00a0played the second half with a chip on his shoulder and\u00a0the numbers were hard fought and earned.\u00a0The other bright spot was Heath Miller who did a tremendous job and completely outshined Jimmy Graham. He finished with eight catches and 82 yards.<\/p>\n
The Steelers rallied but in the end made way to many mistakes to\u00a0pull this one out. Given extra time off from the bye\u00a0and\u00a0playing a team that had lost three in a row and was coming off a Monday night whipping\u00a0didn’t provide any advantage\u00a0and in the end\u00a0the Steelers lost once again to a team that was under .500.<\/p>\n
The Steelers need to figure out what type of team they are!<\/p>\n
My \u201cGAME BEER\u201d goes to<\/strong>:\u00a0I am going with Antonio Brown who had a big day again\u00a0with eight catches for 97 yards and two touchdowns. He added to his record and he played with a nasty edge. Also Considered: Le’Veon Bell, who played great as well and easily deserved it. Brett Keisel who was all over the field and most likely played his last game in the NFL. I am proud I was there for it, no matter what the score is.<\/p>\n Where I watched the game: <\/strong>In the ‘Burgh with my entire family! It was an\u00a0unbelievable experience, between the Duquesne Incline, Primanti Brothers (3x), the Strip district, Peppis an amazing Tailgate with the Beer We Go Steelers Original Crew,\u00a0Louis Lipps, Robin Cole and Barry Foster in attendance. We sat in the 524 section with\u00a0Beer We Go President, Tom Janicki!<\/p>\n My Stat of the week:<\/strong>\u00a05 Touchdowns thrown by Drew Brees who absolutely exposed the Steelers defense and the secondary.<\/p>\n My thoughts on Next Week: <\/strong>The Steelers need to show up and give the Bengals a run for their money. The Steelers are capable of beating the Bengals but need to play much better!!!<\/p>\n SPECIAL REPORT FROM “LITTLE MISS TAILGATE”:<\/strong> This past weekend\u00a0went to Pittsburgh and had a lot of fun. At the tailgate I hung out with the one and only Captain Tailgate and the BWG Steelers crew. Something really exciting happened, I had an amazing opportunity to meet Robin Cole. He was very nice. During the tailgate out of nowhere people started chucking marshmallows at other people and it was hilarious. I also got to see the Great Hall in Heinz Field which was amazing.<\/p>\n During the first quarter of the game we started off great and Le\u2019Veon Bell took the spotlight with 75 rushing yards.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t until the second quarter where we started falling behind and the Saints took the lead for good.<\/p>\n The Steelers had some key injuries, during the game Brett Keisel tore one of his triceps and Troy Polamalu had a stinger. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n I think that the Steelers best player of the game was Le\u2019Veon Bell because he did an amazing job running the ball. I gave him an A+.<\/p>\n I hope you guys enjoyed this and I will be writing more soon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With my entire family and the Beer We Go crew in attendance, the Steelers played lousy all day and in the end couldn’t overcome two turnovers, dropping a “must win” to the\u00a0Saints. Ben Roethlisberger had one of the worst games in his career, while his numbers will look good on paper, the game was an […]<\/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-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwg-gr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","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=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHi everyone \u201cLittle Miss Tailgate\u201d here and I haven’t written in the blog in so long and I am happy to write again.<\/p>\n