Truer words were never spoken by Coach Tomlin! “Style points don’t matter,” he has said in the past. The Steelers moved to 8-3, after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs,\u00a0behind an awful performance by both the offense and the defense.<\/p>\n
The Steelers took advantage of four Chief’s turnovers by\u00a0Pitt Alumni, Tyler Palko, and survived\u00a0a scary fourth quarter drive that ended when Keenan Lewis made a great pick and Dwayne Bowe\u00a0short armed the pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The defense was missing Troy Polamalu, who went out with what looked like a concussion after he\u00a0clobbered 290 pound\u00a0Offensive\u00a0Tackle Steve Maneri.\u00a0Without\u00a0Troy, the defense\u00a0looked like it lost a step. This is not a reflection on Ryan Mundy, just a plain fact.\u00a0The Chief’s tried a hurry up offense that threw off the Steelers pass rush considerably, but they couldn’t extend it for long periods of time and eventually Palko would turn it over. Jason Worilds had a nice game and Silverback played okay but overall\u00a0the\u00a0linebackers and the\u00a0defensive line looked a little gassed and they struggled to get sacks.<\/p>\n
The defensive backs\u00a0played a very consistent game, albeit not spectacular game. It is hard to give Ike Taylor or Ryan Mundy a lot of credit for picks that were thrown as if they were the intended receiver.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Palko played terrible. His chance of ever being a starter in this league is pretty much at an end. He has turned the ball over SEVEN times in two weeks and Kyle Orton is waiting over his shoulder.<\/p>\n
The offense never got on track. They moved the ball pretty well but\u00a0made so many costly mistakes. The offensive line\u00a0was in flux again and it hurt all kinds of production.\u00a0To count the mistakes; the sure-handed Mewelde Moore fumbled,\u00a0killing a great opening drive. Ben threw a ridiculous Brett Favre like pick, whipping the ball into double coverage.\u00a0 The Offensive Line really didn’t get any “push”\u00a0on\u00a0the running game and had trouble with protection. Heath Miller had a bad holding call.<\/p>\n
It was great to see Hines Ward catching\u00a0some tough passes and Weslye Saunders caught the game\u2019s only touchdown!<\/p>\n
Despite 385 words doing so, it is hard to complain about a win. The Ravens have played some bad\u00a0games also this year, the difference being they lost those games, to Seattle, who the Steelers\u00a0shutout, the Jaguars, who the Steelers\u00a0struggled but beat and the Titans who the Steelers beat the ever living\u00a0heck out of. \u00a0<\/p>\n
BEER WE GO STEELERS, BEER WE GO!<\/p>\n
My \u201cGAME BEER\u201d goes to<\/strong>: Weslye Saunders, he caught his first touchdown pass of\u00a0his career\u00a0and looks to be improving every week. Also Considered: Keenan Lewis, who made the game winning\/saving interception. NO ONE else, seriously it was that bad.\u00a0<\/p>\n Where I watched the game: <\/strong>At my girlfriend KGB’s, with as usual, a ridiculous spread. I also watched with one of my best friends, Mike\u00a0R.\u00a0who brought over a “nine” pack of Sam Adams sampler. I love Sam Adams but since I hate all things Boston and New England I rarely drink it. The winter and the traditional Boston Lager are awesome, the Fezziwig Ale was crappola!<\/p>\n My thoughts on Next Week:\u00a0<\/strong>No rest for the Steelers; the improving Bengals come to town and I will be in attendance at the game in the\u00a0‘Burgh!\u00a0Look for another close one with the Steelers holding off the Bengals!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Truer words were never spoken by Coach Tomlin! “Style points don’t matter,” he has said in the past. The Steelers moved to 8-3, after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs,\u00a0behind an awful performance by both the offense and the defense. The Steelers took advantage of four Chief’s turnovers by\u00a0Pitt Alumni, Tyler Palko, and survived\u00a0a scary fourth […]<\/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-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwg-gr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}