In order to prolong their season, they had to beat the Browns (3-13) and get help from the Buffalo Bills against the New York Jets to seize a wild-card spot prolong their season.
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The 32-year-old Williams tied for the National Football League lead with 11 rushing touchdowns while filling in for Le’Veon Bell, who is out for the season with a torn ligament in his right knee. “If we have to do that, we have to watch and wait”.
It still took them a while for the Steelers to truly get going Sunday.
Roethlisberger was sent home from practice during the week with a head cold, but he’s expected to be fully recovered by kickoff – and that’s not a healthy thing for the Browns.
Big Ben finished 24 of 36 and improved to 19-2 over Cleveland.
Roethlisberger accepted blame for the unexpected loss to the Ravens and could take out his frustrations on Cleveland’s injury-decimated secondary. As usual, Roethlisberger did his part, throwing for 349 yards, including 187 to sensational wide receiver Antonio Brown, who had 13 catches and a TD. Todman has four carries for 22 yards in limited playing time this season. “We will certainly have our hands full there”.
And when Buffalo completed its win over the Jets, the Steelers were back in the postseason. “I know they’re excited about 8-8 and we’re excited they got us in”.
Starting after the 2008 season finale, Romeo Crennel was shown the door, followed by Eric Mangini after the 2010 season.
The Jets (10-6) will miss the playoffs for the fifth straight season. If Pettine is let go by owner Jimmy Haslam, Cleveland will begin searching for its eighth coach since 1999. It’s a victory if he’s even slowed most weeks.
Today’s Pittsburgh Steelers vs Cleveland Browns NFL football game has a start time schedule of 1:00pm eastern time and airs on TV channel CBS in some markets along with DirecTV Sunday Ticket nationwide.
The Steelers, however, aren’t quite ready to heap all the blame on the defense.
“We need to be ideal”, said Roethlisberger. Quarterback Ryan Mallett in his second Ravens start passed for 292 yards and a touchdown but also had a pair of interceptions.
The Steelers will enter the playoffs as a sixth seed, a scary sixth seed.
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“I don’t know. I wasn’t”, he said, to laughter. Now, with Roethlisberger joining the tournament, with his track record of playoff success, the Steelers are going to be a force to be reckoned with. Most importantly, there isn’t a team in the playoffs that they fear. Robertson returned the ball 38 yards to the Pittsburgh 9, but on third-and-goal from the 5, a pass from Browns quarterback Austin Davis was intercepted by linebacker James Harrison on the goal line. Chris Boswell kicked a 21-yard field goal. I remember, ” guard David DeCastro said. That’s the kind of guy you want to play for. Roethlisberger sailed the pass to Wheaton, and he hauled in the throw with both feet down in bounds for the score.
