“Whenever his back is against the wall is when he plays his best”, Baldwin said of Wilson.
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The Steelers were inside the five-yard-line without the ability to get a first down when Tomlin sent kicker Chris Boswell into the game and pulled his offense off the field.
-COACHING: F. Mike Tomlin gave life to the Seahawks in the first quarter when he called for a fake field goal with his team winning, 3-0.
Following Seattle’s thrilling 39-30 victory over Pittsburgh, Coach Pete Carroll announced the Seahawks’ prized March acquisition has an injury to the patellar tendon in his right knee.
With running back Marshawn Lynch sidelined and tight end Jimmy Graham leaving the game in the fourth quarter with a knee injury, Wilson delivered time and again in one of his best performances as a pro.
“I’ve been up since pretty early this morning”, Wilson said at the postgame press conference. Baldwin finished Sundays game with six receptions, 145 yards and three touchdowns. Since then, he has been on fire, completing 45 of 59 passes for 605 yards and eight touchdowns with no interceptions.
“I don’t guard small receivers well, so I don’t know what I did ’cause that’s not what I do well”, Sherman told TribLive.com in a very tongue-in-cheek moment. “I don’t know how he’s going to be today”, Carroll said of Lane.
He mostly credited the Steelers, saying “they played great” while noting that a few big plays were due to uncharacteristic secondary breakdowns. Of Seattle’s five losses, four have come against top QBs – Arizona’s Carson Palmer, Carolina’s Cam Newton, Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers and Cincinnati’s Andy Dalton.
“Sometimes it bounces your way”, Sherman said, “sometimes it doesn’t”. Backup Jones, who took a shotgun snap on a play that started out of field-goal formation and took the field for the Steelers’ final drive while Roethlisberger underwent concussion tests, threw two interceptions. “He’s come a long way and is really comfortable and can whip the football and use all his guys and use the whole field when we give him a chance to”.
Both teams managed two touchdowns in the second quarter, Wilson linking up with Baldwin and Jermaine Kearse for passing scores while Martavis Bryant and DeAngelo Williams scored rushing touchdowns for the Steelers.
They got there barely because of an unbelievable day by Roethlisberger, who threw for 456 yards, the most ever against the Seahawks.
Luke Willson takes over as the lead tight end for the final five games of the regular season, beginning Sunday at NFC Central-leading Minnesota (8-3) – and, the Seahawks hope, the postseason. We did see a couple looks like that earlier in the year those two guys on the outside have been making a lot of splashy plays throughout the season, so obviously teams would want to take them away.
Graham landed awkwardly as he attempted to reach behind him to catch the pass.
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Roethlisberger drove the Steelers inside the Seattle 10 with less than 4 minutes remaining, but the drive stalled when he was tackled at the 4 on a third-down scramble. Graham was not fully integrated into the Seattle offense however he made some big plays throughout the season. We’ve seen, when we need him, we’ve seen him in other games at times be able to have that kind of day. He did not return. Williams was benched in the second half last week and had started 81 straight games….
