Three plays later, once-retired James Harrison, playing every down at age 37 for the outmatched and outmanned Jarvis Jones, undercut a route at the goal line and picked it off in a sequence eerily similar to the greatest play in Super Bowl history, Harrison’s 100-yard scoring return as the halftime buzzer sounded. That game is scheduled for 3:35 p.m. Saturday.
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Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger continued his mastery over Cleveland on Sunday with three touchdown passes to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to a 28-12 victory over the Browns.
He is among four players left on the roster who experienced that previously unprecedented Super Bowl XL road rage, and he talked about what it means to take that path. “We just need to have that chain-linked fence effect”.
“That’s what we need as a defense”, said Heyward. They knocked on the door of the playoffs and allegedly said, “It’s Big Ben and Antonio Brown let us come in”. “You’re going to have to do your best”.
@ All week long we heard that the Steelers wouldn’t be scoreboard watching in this game. “I don’t know if it’s going to take two weeks or two months”.
Regardless, they are headed in the right direction at the most important time of the year. If that team shows up in the playoffs, there could be heck to pay.
“We had chances too”, said tight end Heath Miller. “I feel like that’s why we were able to be successful out there”. They do not have a quality backup. The Steelers lost running back DeAngelo Williams in the first half with an ankle injury. The Browns didn’t sack Roethlisberger once, and they didn’t make a single tackle in the backfield. Recently activated from the practice squad, Fitzgerald Toussaint did little to ease worries by rushing for 24 yards on 12 carries against a Browns rush defense that was ranked dead last in the NFL.
“We have an excited locker room in there and rightfully so”, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said. He certainly must be better than he has been lately.
Pittsburgh Steelers fans celebrate late in the second half of an NFL football game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016, in Cleveland.
“Last week we didn’t answer the call”, safety Mike Mitchell said.
The Steelers cashed in two fumbles by the Browns in the first five minutes of the fourth quarter for 10 points.
Brilliant Steelers receiver Antonio Brown finished with 187 yards on 13 grabs and he hauled in a 17-yard touchdown in the second quarter, before Markus Wheaton scored on an eight-yard catch in the fourth.
However, it already seemed as if Suh had already decided that since the Dolphins were not going to the playoffs and the original game of “clean the clock” has been forever outlawed from the National Football League, a game of “twist-o-flex” with Brady’s lower extremities was far less challenging but far more entertaining and less fine generating than Suh’s old roughing the passer version of “stomp the quarterback”. The Steelers haven’t won a playoff game since the 2010 AFC Championship. “We have an opportunity, like the others in the field, and for that, we’re grateful”.
In the meantime, they should spare no small expense for a nod to another team. It wasn’t a big play or anything like that and we were just looking around, wondering what happened, and knowing we have to stop them on this last play. Pittsburgh-based restaurant chain Primanti Brothers rewarded the Bills for the assist by sending an order of sandwiches – complete with French fries and cole slaw on top – to Buffalo as a “thank you”. “We know what they want to do”.
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Now it’s up to the Steelers to do something with it.
