The Steelers almost made it 0-3 against the worse teams in the NFL, but managed to pull it out with some\u00a0overtime heroics by\u00a0Lawrence Timmons. The big story of the game was “Big”\u00a0Ben Roethlisberger\u00a0going down\u00a0with 13:40 to go in the third quarter, when he was\u00a0planted by Justin Houston of Kansas City. The injury is being called a shoulder sprain and his season could be in jeopardy.<\/p>\n
The Steelers had to erase an early 10-0 deficit\u00a0and struggled moving the ball all night.\u00a0After racking\u00a0up three straight hundred yard games the Steelers couldn’t move the ball on the ground. Both Ike Redman and Jonathon Dwyer averaged less than 3 yards a carry, compounded by Redman’s fumble. The offensive line struggled for the first time in weeks. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Ben, until his injury, had an atypical night for him and\u00a0struggled getting into any kind of rhythm.\u00a0 He was relieved by Byron Leftwich, who was erratic and\u00a0looked rusty, but he did deliver the lead and made some key plays. It\u00a0will be interesting to see how he does this week in practice. The Steelers only touchdown came on an amazing one handed catch by Mike Wallace. That was really the lone bright spot of the night for the offense.<\/p>\n
The defense stepped up despite blowing another fourth quarter lead.\u00a0The Chiefs lead the NFL in turnovers but it wasn’t until\u00a0OT that the Steelers grabbed one. That was of course the biggest play of the game by\u00a0Lawrence Timmons, who rescued a dreary night with his\u00a0interception of Matt Cassel.\u00a0The linebackers had good pressure but had no sacks to show for it and Jamaal Charles gashed the front seven for 100 yards.<\/p>\n
Despite that fact, the defensive line played\u00a0okay, and Brett Keisel and Ziggy Hood both had great second halves. The secondary\u00a0was having a monster game until the last drive. They held the Chiefs to fewer than 100 yards passing until the fourth quarter in which they let the Chiefs drive down for the game tying field goal. \u00a0<\/p>\n
It was an ugly game but as Coach Tomlin always says, “Style points don’t matter!”\u00a0The Steelers played one of their worst games of the year, but a win is a win, and this sets up the much anticipated Steelers v. Ravens Sunday night football showdown.<\/p>\n
BEER WE GO STEELERS, BEER WE GO!<\/p>\n
My \u201cGAME BEER\u201d goes to<\/strong>:\u00a0Lawrence Timmons, whose interception saved the Steelers from an embarrassing defeat. Also considered: \u00a0Brett Keisel, who had both sacks on quarterback, Matt Cassel, and also forced a third-down incompletion.<\/p>\n Where I watched the game: <\/strong>At the house with all my buddies.\u00a0The beer of choice was\u00a0IC Light.\u00a0KGB made\u00a0“new” snacks, which were great and \u00a0Jeff K brought KFC, which was a good treat. Bad\u00a0news was that I didn’t feel well and really didn’t eat too much after the second quarter. \u00a0<\/p>\n My Stat of the week: <\/strong>The stat of the week.. 1 interception by Lawrence Timmons. The Chiefs turned the ball over 29 times this year but the Steelers defense continues to struggle creating turnovers.<\/p>\n My thoughts on Next Week: <\/strong>This is nearly impossible without Ben, so I will reserve the pick until I know Ben is playing. On a bright note, Troy should be back!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Steelers almost made it 0-3 against the worse teams in the NFL, but managed to pull it out with some\u00a0overtime heroics by\u00a0Lawrence Timmons. The big story of the game was “Big”\u00a0Ben Roethlisberger\u00a0going down\u00a0with 13:40 to go in the third quarter, when he was\u00a0planted by Justin Houston of Kansas City. The injury is being called […]<\/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-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwg-gr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","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=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bwgsteelers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}