The injury plagued Steelers dropped a tough one to the Houston Texans, as Arian Foster gashed and slashed the Steelers Defense for 155 yards. It was a tough day for the Black and Gold defense, as they only showed glimpses of last year\u2019s success. The Offense made a nice comeback in the second half, but was unable to mount the game winning drive.<\/p>\n
The glaring difference between this year and last year is the lack of turnovers by the defense. Silverback looks like he is operating at half speed and was injured for parts of the game. The front seven, which is the backbone of the Steelers success, was getting pushed all over the field for the first half of the game. The defensive line has looked extremely slow. Next to the Linebackers and the Wide Receivers,\u00a0this was the best and deepest group\u00a0the Steelers\u00a0have had in years. It is just awful watching them get beat up. Lamarr Woodley has been virtually invisible and lost backside contain on the run by Foster.<\/p>\n
Big Ben is becoming a tackling dummy for opponents as he was sacked\u00a0five more times today. That brings the season total to a whopping fourteen\u00a0sacks. He has been getting drilled all over the field and his performances have been completely uneven. He still has flashes of brilliance and will turn this season around.<\/p>\n
Rashard Mendenhall\u00a0has been AWOL for the past two weeks. He has been unable to run with any sort of progress. While the line has been part of the problem,\u00a0it isn’t the\u00a0ONLY problem.\u00a0His cutbacks are horrible, and he has become way too inconsistent. The running game started to get better in the second\u00a0half and again, Mewelde Moore\u00a0and Ike Redman\u00a0were solid. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is time to take a real long look at this team and see what it’s made of!<\/p>\n
The bright side of this thing, the team played very hard in the second half.\u00a0First and foremost the Steelers need to beat a spirited Titans team next week and they should get a minimum of 10 wins.<\/p>\n
BEER WE GO STEELERS, BEER WE GO<\/p>\n
My \u201cGAME BEER\u201d goes to<\/strong>: Mike Wallace, He got the Steelers back into the game and while his numbers were mediocre his performance was very good. Honorable Mention, Antonio Brown who is beginning to emerge as a star. Also considered, Ike Redman who grinded out some tough yards.<\/p>\n Where I watched the game: <\/strong>It was a whirlwind day; I watched the game at KGB’s and had McSorleys dark ale.\u00a0At half time, had to listen to it as the Steelers mounted their comeback, and “watched”\u00a0the end\u00a0on\u00a0my phone. I love listening\u00a0on the radio and Bill Hillgrove and Tunch were awesome.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n My thoughts on Next Week:\u00a0<\/strong>I am seriously worried about this one, if the Steelers can beat the Titans they will still have a great shot at the playoffs. Look for a big rebound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The injury plagued Steelers dropped a tough one to the Houston Texans, as Arian Foster gashed and slashed the Steelers Defense for 155 yards. It was a tough day for the Black and Gold defense, as they only showed glimpses of last year\u2019s success. The Offense made a nice comeback in the second half, but […]<\/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-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwg-gr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}