Ben Roethlisberger threw three touchdown passes, including two to star wide receiver Antonio Brown, to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to a 38-16 win over Washington’s National Football League team on September 12 at FedEx Field near Washington D.C.
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The run defense was nonexistent, as DeAngelo Williams replaced the suspended Le’Veon Bell and gained 143 yards while scoring two touchdowns.
Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict won’t be in action for the Week 2 game as he serves a three-game suspension stemming from the teams’ playoff game last season. As everybody expected the best receiver in football Antonio Brown went off for 8 catches 126 yards and 2 touchdowns. He has the skill but so does DeAngelo Williams, and he proved it again tonight.
Week 2 of the 2016 NFL season is nearly among us, which means fans can expect another great week of football. “We’ll continue to ride with him”. The 33 year old showed absolutely no signs of aging, bullrushing the perception that running backs hit a wall shortly after turning 30.
Cincinnati’s offensive line not only struggled to protect Dalton but did not open up many lanes for running back Jeremy Hill. The Bengals’ defense got run over during a season-opening win over the Jets, and there’s an terrible lot to fix heading into a matchup against a team that’s been known to run all over them. Breeland had a rough night when the Redskins didn’t shift gears to put their $75 million cornerback on Brown.
“I get so excited watching those guys, I was more nervous watching than playing”, Wheaton said.
But there were mix-ups with receivers, cadence confusion that contributed to five false-start penalties, some throws that were off-target, the turnovers and lack of production in the red zone, including a pair of early drives that ended with field goals.
“It wasn’t haphazard by any stretch”, Tomlin said Tuesday. Not many teams wanted to take a chance on the then-32-year-old running back, which is usually the position in the National Football League with the shortest career expectancy.
BROWN DELIVERS: Of Brown’s eight catches, his best came with double coverage on him on fourth-and-1 from the 29 and the Steelers down 6-0. But Washington chose not to have Norman shadow Steelers receiver Antonio Brown on Monday night.
He threw two touchdowns to Brown and another to Rogers. At the time, the move seemed odd because in the only preseason game he played with them, he managed to produce a sack and looked like one of their best defensive lineman. He caught one pass for 9 yards, the only time Cousins targeted Doctson. Sure, they spent much of the game trying to come from behind, but that kind of imbalance usually spells disaster for an offense.
And Redskins coach Jay Gruden offered his support for the other cornerback: “I think Breeland has done such a good job in training camp, and Breeland is one of our corners”. Starter Matt Jones carried only seven times for 24 yards.
In case anyone forgot, the Steelers played the first two games of last season without Bell and played the first four without Bryant.
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“Can’t take anything away from that”, Norman said. “We thought we were ready to compete”.
