Yet when Ben Roethlisberger is healthy, Pittsburgh is just as explosive as Todd Haley promised during the offseason when the uber-aggressive offensive coordinator predicted his unit should average 30 points.
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“Midway through fourth quarter, I told him to stop getting sacks so we could actually get some balls down the field”, Mitchell joked. He was non-committal about starting next Sunday at Jacksonville for the Colts, who remain tied with Houston for the lead in the AFC South.
“We couldn’t get anything going offensively”, Colts coach Chuck Pagano said.
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Brown caught eight passes for 118 yards and two touchdowns. But throw in a missed field goal, two fumbles by Jacoby Jones and a 60-yard kickoff return allowed and it was once again a long night. “Today we showed that”.
-PASSING OFFENSE: A-plus. The Steelers tortured the Colts pass defense for a second year in a row. Sure, Vontae Davis and Greg Toler got abused in ways that could easily be ruled to be illegal or at least immoral, and sure, the run defense got gashed, and sure, Matt Hasselbeck’s Magic Mystery Tour hit a giant pothole. For me it’s been a little bit of adversity but it’s all about how you respond to it. You have to be a great teammate and stay in the mindset that at any moment you could get in. He was sacked three times on 11 drop-back attempts as the Steelers cranked up their pass rush with the game out of hand. The veteran mustered only 162 yards, was intercepted twice and led the Colts to only three points on three drives that began in Pittsburgh territory. “I felt good”, Adams said.
“We got our asses kicked, ” he said.
For the Colts, Matt Hasselbeck threw for 169 yards for a touchdown and 2 interceptions before exiting the game with a neck and shoulder injury.
“They did a really nice job of keeping me off balance”, Hasselbeck said. Hasselbeck has played a major role in keeping the Colts’ postseason hopes alive, but it is foolish to believe he is the Colts’ best chance at winning their remaining games.
Brown is one of several incredible young wide receivers in the National Football League right now and while he might not make the one-handed catches Odell Beckham Jr. or DeAndre Hopkins make, he remains an incredible player who is impossible to shut down.
Williams fumbled to give the ball back to Indianapolis at the Pittsburgh 25, and the Colts took advantage of the Steelers’ second miscue. He needs 203 yards in the next four games to have his first 1,000 yard season since 2009 when he was a member of the Carolina Panthers.
The Steelers won this game off the backs of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, his receivers, and their defense.
Roethlisberger took over from there as the Steelers finished the first half with a flourish.
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-RB Frank Gore led the Colts with 94 yards from scrimmage Sunday. TE Coby Fleener made a team-high four receptions for 20 yards.
