stillers4me
09-21-2015, 05:14 AM
The Pittsburgh Steelers (http://www.nfl.com/teams/pittsburghsteelers/profile?team=PIT) on Sunday dropped an unforgiving hammer on San Francisco in a 43-18 (http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2015092009/2015/REG2/49ers@steelers) win over the 49ers (http://www.nfl.com/teams/sanfrancisco49ers/profile?team=SF). Here's what you need to know:
1. Welcome back to earth, San Francisco. The Niners coaxed Teddy Bridgewater (http://www.nfl.com/player/teddybridgewater/2543465/profile) into one of the worst games of his young career in the opener. They had no such luck against a zoned-in Ben Roethlisberger (http://www.nfl.com/player/benroethlisberger/2506109/profile), who passed for 369 yards and three scores at an outrageous 13.7 yards per toss against coordinator Eric Mangini's secondary. What we didn't see this week: Niners defenders smothering ball-handlers as they did against Minnesota. San Francisco was badly outmanned by Pittsburgh's weapon-rich attack.
2. Colin Kaepernick (http://www.nfl.com/player/colinkaepernick/2495186/profile) struggled to find his rhythm against a physical Steelers (http://www.nfl.com/teams/pittsburghsteelers/profile?team=PIT) defensive front (raise your hand if you really expected to read that at this stage)...........
Read more @ http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000534390/article/back-to-earth-49ers-slammed-by-highoctane-steelers
1. Welcome back to earth, San Francisco. The Niners coaxed Teddy Bridgewater (http://www.nfl.com/player/teddybridgewater/2543465/profile) into one of the worst games of his young career in the opener. They had no such luck against a zoned-in Ben Roethlisberger (http://www.nfl.com/player/benroethlisberger/2506109/profile), who passed for 369 yards and three scores at an outrageous 13.7 yards per toss against coordinator Eric Mangini's secondary. What we didn't see this week: Niners defenders smothering ball-handlers as they did against Minnesota. San Francisco was badly outmanned by Pittsburgh's weapon-rich attack.
2. Colin Kaepernick (http://www.nfl.com/player/colinkaepernick/2495186/profile) struggled to find his rhythm against a physical Steelers (http://www.nfl.com/teams/pittsburghsteelers/profile?team=PIT) defensive front (raise your hand if you really expected to read that at this stage)...........
Read more @ http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000534390/article/back-to-earth-49ers-slammed-by-highoctane-steelers