DeAngelo Williams looked unbelievable as well as he had 23 carries for 143 yards and two touchdowns, averaging 5.5 yards a carry.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers started their season with an impressive win going on the road and making quick and easy work of the Redskins on Monday Night. Burfict was also fined ,000 for three plays during the Bengals’ December matchup against the Steelers, and his hit on Le’Veon Bell in their November game knocked the running back out for the season.
Ben Roethlisberger finished the game 27 for 37 with 300 yards, three touchdowns and one interception. Receiver Eli Rogers caught six passes for 59 yards and a touchdown in his National Football League debut.
“You can’t say enough about DeAngelo Williams and his performance”, Tomlin said. “We’ll continue to ride with him”. Ben Rothelisberger threw a 29 yard touchdown pass to Antonio Brown. The turnover served as the beginning of the blowout, leading to Brown’s second touchdown catch to pad a 24-6 lead. We have no problem defending fourth downs, which we did a lot tonight.
Why not have star cornerback Josh Norman follow Antonio Brown around instead of letting the Steelers match him up on Bashaud Breeland? 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. Washington, however, only converted one of those four trips into the red zone into a touchdown, and they were successful in doing so on only one of their two goal-to-go situations, one of which resulted in a turnover. “Hopefully it’s still a strength of ours in terms of being able to stand up when the field is short”. Trailing 6 to 0 in the 2nd quarter on a 4th and 1 from the Washington 29, Pittsburgh chose to roll the dice and go for it. Once the Pittsburgh Steelers get healthy, they could quite possibly be the best team in AFC.
“They came out with a plan to throw on them”, Casserly said in a telephone interview. “Great situational call by coach Tomlin”.
It turns out that two wrongs made a right.
“I dropped back or had 43 pass attempts and didn’t take a sack”, he said. They will likely look to find a more balanced approach regarding the secondary. “It’s humbling. I guess we thought we were too good, but we got humbled quick”. Washington totaled 55 yards rushing, including just 28 in the first half.
“When you get a three-man rush, you know, when they drop eight guys in coverage”, Cousins said, “there’s a good chance, when you’re putting five eligibles out there and they’ve got eight guys to cover those five, the numbers are against you and so the chance for everybody to be open, or people to be open, in the rhythm of the play is pretty rare, so you end up having to make plays off-schedule when they only rush three guys”. “We went to Andrews Air Force Base the other day and everybody that was there stayed after, signed some autographs”, Gruden said, notes 247 Sports.
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“But I think we have to balance that with being smart and that’s what we were trying to do”.
