Cleveland couldn’t keep their lead, however, and Baltimore is now tied for first place at 2-0 with Pittsburgh.
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Maybe, but the 132 combined yards he piled up against Cincinnati meant plenty to the Steelers.
Burficts absence will defuse some of the bad blood that grew from his knockout hit on Antonio Brown in the wild card game.
“Everybody knows the professional hatred we have for the Cincinnati Bengals and the Bengals have with us”, Williams said, according to ESPN. Everybody’s heard the Twitter fight and things of that nature that we’ve had in the offseason. Whenever he met with resistance on Sunday, he lowered his head or his shoulders (or both) and tried to make room on his own. “It will be our will versus their will, and we will see who breaks first”.
Esiason expects it to be an intense game at Heinz Field on Sunday.
The off-and-on rain showers in Pittsburgh led to a tight first half.
Pittsburgh got a gift in Kevin Huber’s shanked 32-yard punt in the second quarter, but despite starting at the Bengals 35, the Steelers had to settle for Chris Boswell’s 49-yard field goal after failing to get a first down.
“We didn’t want to see dancing”, said cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick, of the goal of shutting Brown out of the end zone”. Nonetheless, the Steelers quarterback reached yet another milestone as he recorded his 276th career touchdown pass to slide into 12th in National Football League history. Second-year players Jesse James and Xavier Grimble both caught touchdown passes from Ben Roethlisberger, and veteran David Johnson helped open holes for running back DeAngelo Williams.
This is going to be an awesome game between two teams that can’t stand each other. Tucker added a 41-yard field goal with 2:53 left.
Antonio Brown was held to four catches for 39 yards – his lowest production with Roethlisberger since December 30, 2012 – but Sammie Coates and two unlikely targets made up for the deficiency.
The Steelers capitalized with 6:48 left in the game. Tyler Boyd fumbled after getting hit by James Harrison in Pittsburgh territory with 1:50 to play even though replays appeared to show Boyd – who grew up in suburban Pittsburgh and played collegiately on the same field for Pitt – was down well before the ball came out. Bernard only caught two passes as well. With a 1-1 record overall and an 0-1 divisional record.
While the year is still young, the Steelers look like the strongest team in the AFC North.
Next week, the Cleveland Browns travel to Miami to face the Dolphins (0-2) as they look for their first win of the season.
The one thing Pittsburgh has that the Bengals do not is a long run of postseason success.
Losing on the road to the Steelers is rarely a poor result for Cincinnati, and A.J. Andy Dalton had his first touchdown pass of the game when he connected with Giovani Bernard, but it was too little, too late.
Second week in a row where Williams finds his way into the Winners column.
Don’t miss today’s action packed NFL game on ABC and NFL Sunday Ticket between the Bengals and Packers.
“We’re not waiting for Heath or Spaeth to come back”. “I felt like it was a pretty dominant performance by the group”.
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The Carolina Panthers are enter the Week 2 with high hope to rebound from their season opener defeat when they play host the visiting team of San Francisco 49ers in this afternoon’s NFL Week 2 game. Once I saw it on the screen, I just felt we were going to have another chance, another snap at it.
