Ben Roethlisberger threw three touchdown passes, including two to star wide receiver Antonio Brown, to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to a 38-16 win over Washington’s National Football League team on September 12 at FedEx Field near Washington D.C. “It was a good, old-fashioned butt whooping”. But without adequate pieces along their defensive line, it won’t matter.
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Referring to the earlier fourth-down play, Roethlisberger smiled when recalling the view he had while dropping back in the pocket and seeing Brown work his way open. The Redskins’ only touchdown came from Chris Thompson on a one yard rush. Bashaud Breeland helped out, picking off Ben Roethlisberger on the Steelers’ second possession, but 24 unanswered points for the Steelers in the second and third quarters created what would become an insurmountable deficit for Washington. Bad teams are given pathways to get better, including easier schedules: Last season the Redskins won the NFC East without beating a team with a winning record. Rodgers finished 6 catches for 59 yards receiving and 1 touchdown.
“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. And their defense did what most everyone expected them not to do, stifling the Redskins for much of the game.
“We’ve just got to have a great start to the game”, linebacker Rey Maualuga said. “They did a good job of letting the underneath completions happen but pretty much taking away anything from being chunks”.
Steelers’ running back DeAngelo Williams had 26 carries for 143 yards and two touchdowns on Monday night, as a capable fill-in for the suspended Le’Veon Bell once again, so there is clearly a need to address defensively for the Redskins. He missed all of last season on injured reserve.
“We take very much pride in our relationship with the military”. Reiter could be brought back as a practice squad player.
But this time-unlike previous year vs. wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. and the Giants-the ire of Norman’s temper wasn’t directed the the opposition.
On the Norman part of this though, what’s going to happen moving forward?
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And the most ridiculous thing about Antonio Brown is that, for him at least, it is actually a reasonable thing to do to take an opening game stat line and project a season-long performance by prorating those numbers over a 16-game season. “They gave us a look”. “We didn’t counter on the fundamentals of football: getting off blocks, executing”. “We hold ourselves to a high expectation. We competed there for a while and then didn’t make some plays and they made the plays”. Hood also pressured Roethlisberger on an eventual forced fumble caused by outside linebacker Ryan Kerrigan late in the first quarter. But the sixth-year veteran came no closer to the quarterback the rest of the way. “It’s a quick fix, that’s what it’s going to be”. The defense managed to pick off Big Ben, and shut out the explosive Steelers offense through the first fifteen minutes of this game. He’s more than worth the hassle, regardless of what Mike Tomlin might say. We’ll be sitting here with you guys looking at the same games. “You know, we get a little bit too giddy sometimes with the weapons that we have”. You want to put the ball in the air? Reed caught three passes, dropped one and came up one yard short with a 13-yard catch on third down.
