It amazes me how tough Ben Roethlisberger is. When he was sandwiched by Cleveland’s Scott Paxson, midway through the Second quarter the season seemed lost. I texted the Captain and it read, “It looks very bad.” But Ben did what Ben does and he got off the deck and came out and played the second half leading the Steelers to victory and their tenth win of the year!<\/p>\n
“The heart of a champion, the man has a lot of guts, a lot of will. he’s the leader of our team and that’s what they do, they do stuff like that.” Said James Farrior.<\/p>\n
Despite moving the ball pretty well all game, the Steelers struggled, including losing the turnover battle.\u00a0They eventually finished off the Browns with an Antonio Brown 79 yard\u00a0Touchdown late in the fourth quarter. Brown had a huge game going for 150 yards plus. The Steelers rushed for 147 yards with Mendenhall leading the way. Ben threw for over 260. The issue was\u00a0trusted veterans\u00a0Hines Ward and Heath Miller both fumbled inside the Cleveland 20 and the Steelers couldn’t punch it in from the two yard line.<\/p>\n
Despite a very game performance by Colt McCoy, the defense put together a\u00a0good\u00a0effort and kept Cleveland in check all day.\u00a0The defense picked off two passes including a red zone pick by Willie Gay and they registered three sacks. Jason Worilds did a good job filling in again for Woodley as he registered two fo the sacks. Silverback can expect another fine from the league as he laid out McCoy with a helmet to helmet hit that sent McCoy from the game.<\/p>\n
The Steelers now have ten days off and given the slew of injuries last night including Pouncey again as well as Ziggy Hood, they will need the time.<\/p>\n
BEER WE GO STEELERS, BEER WE GO<\/p>\n
My \u201cGAME BEER\u201d goes to<\/strong>: Big Ben, this guy is so freakin’ tough. I mean that was the stuff of legend. Also Considered: Antonio Brown for his huge 79 yard TD.\u00a0<\/p>\n Where I watched the game: <\/strong>At my girlfriend KGB’s, on the couch with a Spaten in one hand and the remote in the other. We watched the game with EROC who was agonizing over fantasy and may have lost because of Heath and Hines fumble! Probably not my best recommendation.<\/p>\n My thoughts on Next Week:\u00a0<\/strong>Ten days off is just what the doctor ordered. The Steelers take on the 49ers next week. This is going to be a defensive battle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It amazes me how tough Ben Roethlisberger is. When he was sandwiched by Cleveland’s Scott Paxson, midway through the Second quarter the season seemed lost. I texted the Captain and it read, “It looks very bad.” But Ben did what Ben does and he got off the deck and came out and played the second […]<\/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-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwg-gr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","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=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}