{"id":939,"date":"2012-11-05T01:33:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T01:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/?p=939"},"modified":"2012-11-06T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:14:07","slug":"steelers-beat-the-giants-with-late-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Steelers beat the Giants with late comeback!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Steelers overcame\u00a0a travel nightmare,\u00a0a hostile vitriolic crowd, three very bad calls, and a ten point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the\u00a0Super Bowl Champions! It was a tremendous victory for the Black and Gold\u00a0over the best\u00a0opponent they have played this year.<\/p>\n

The Defense played its most complete game of the season,\u00a0shutting down the Giants running game and\u00a0keeping Eli Manning off pace all day long. Dick LeBeau, who three weeks ago was considered washed up, dialed up another virtuoso game plan. After surrendering 4th quarter leads in every game they have lost this year, the Steelers held arguably the best fourth quarter QB in check to seal the\u00a0victory. The front seven\u00a0closed every gap and the secondary was air tight. They held the vaunted Giants offense to 13 offensive points and 182 yards. Keenan Lewis and Ryan Clark both were called for nonsense penalties that resulted in the Giants only offensive touchdown.\u00a0Ike Taylor picked off his first pass of the year. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0It was another great game for “Big” Ben Roethlisberger who clearly outplayed Eli Manning. Ben had two costly turnovers, one of which was completely incorrect.\u00a0But despite that, he did a great job overall and when the game was on the line made every play that\u00a0he needed to, including a huge end of the game 3rd down completion.\u00a0The star of the offense was Ike Redman, backed up by the o-line, which pulverized the Giants Pro-Bowl front four for 158 yards on the ground. They pushed the Giants all over the field.<\/p>\n

The receivers also played well, with excellent performances by Manny Sanders, who caught the first TD: a great back of the end zone snatch, Mike Wallace who took a hot route read and turned it into a 51 yards TD, and Jericho Cotchery who did a great job filling in for the injured Antonio Brown.<\/p>\n

The lowlight of the day was watching Shaun Suisham’s failed run on a fake field-goal attempt. It was a gutsy call by Mike Tomlin and he deserves credit, but it also proved\u00a0near disastrous and I don’t think there could have been anyone slower on the team to run it. The Steelers were down by three and he went for the TD.<\/p>\n

Another Week another set of\u00a0injuries were losing Antonio Brown and Chris Rainey who looks like he might be done for the Year.<\/p>\n

With all the adversity it was a great win for the Steelers! It was a heavyweight showdown and the Steelers delivered the knockout blow!\u00a0<\/p>\n

BEER WE GO STEELERS, BEER WE GO!<\/p>\n

My \u201cGAME BEER\u201d goes to<\/strong>:\u00a0Ike Redman, who gashed the Giants offense after a two-gam\"\"<\/a>e absence and set career highs with 147 yards rushing on 26 carries. He also scored the winning TD on a 1-yard run.\u00a0Also considered: the offensive line, who paved the way for the 147, Big Ben, who is a perennial star, and Keenan Lewis, who played a great game.<\/p>\n

Where I watched the game: <\/strong>At the house with KGB, the NY BWG Crew\u00a0and my buddy Mike and his lovely family. The beer of choice was\u00a0IC Light and Sam’s Winter.\u00a0We had Pizza and a Calzone the size of a toilet seat, which Mike was kind\u00a0enough to treat to. It was bittersweet because we live in NY and with all the craziness this week, a gas shortage, and no electric, we had to skip the game in person. We also had to skip our home and home with the BWG Pittsburgh crew.\u00a0We\u00a0ran the\u00a0TV on generator power and had a great time!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

My Stat of the week: <\/strong>The stat of the week is 147 Yards on 26 Carries. While that is Ike Redman’s line, the stat represents three weeks in a row that a Steelers running back rushed for over 100 yards. Todd Haley’s offense is really shaping up!<\/p>\n

My thoughts on Next Week: <\/strong>This is the classic trap game against the Chiefs, after beating the Champs, as the Rat birds are on the Horizon! But an important story line is that Todd Haley is going to want to run it up on his former employers so watch for a Steeler blowout.\u00a0 That\u2019s right\u2026 I am calling for a blowout!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Steelers overcame\u00a0a travel nightmare,\u00a0a hostile vitriolic crowd, three very bad calls, and a ten point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the\u00a0Super Bowl Champions! It was a tremendous victory for the Black and Gold\u00a0over the best\u00a0opponent they have played this year. The Defense played its most complete game of the season,\u00a0shutting down 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-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwg-gr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}