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11-19-2015, 11:19 AM
Antonio Brown no longer amazes teammates with his next great thing on a football field, although that forward flip into the end zone last Sunday caught them by surprise.
They did not see that coming, never saw him try it in practice and he told no one he might do it. Who knows, the next thing might be for Brown to catch a pass while he’s in the middle of a flip.
“Not really, I guess,” quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said as to whether he's surprised by any of Brown's performances. “It kind of seems silly because we expect what he does every week.
“It’s hard for him to do anything anymore that we shake our heads about. The biggest thing for me that makes me in awe is when he does something like drops a ball. That’s a bigger deal more than making a great catch.”
Brown, 27 and in his sixth NFL season, keeps raising his personal bar. If it goes any higher, the Steelers will need to more than expand the UPMC Rooney Complex, they’ll need to raise the ceilings.
Brown’s 1,141 receiving yards not only leads the NFL, it is nearly an unprecedented pace in modern league history. In the 50 seasons in which the Super Bowl has existed, Brown’s are the second-most yards 10 games into it. Only Isaac Bruce had more with 1,183 through 10 games in 1995.
He has done this even though he was held to 11 receptions for 111 yards combined for three consecutive games — Baltimore, San Diego and Arizona — while Mike Vick started for the injured Roethlisberger and the passing game was stifled. His 79 receptions are one off the NFL lead.
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http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2015/11/19/On-the-Steelers-7/stories/201511190098
They did not see that coming, never saw him try it in practice and he told no one he might do it. Who knows, the next thing might be for Brown to catch a pass while he’s in the middle of a flip.
“Not really, I guess,” quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said as to whether he's surprised by any of Brown's performances. “It kind of seems silly because we expect what he does every week.
“It’s hard for him to do anything anymore that we shake our heads about. The biggest thing for me that makes me in awe is when he does something like drops a ball. That’s a bigger deal more than making a great catch.”
Brown, 27 and in his sixth NFL season, keeps raising his personal bar. If it goes any higher, the Steelers will need to more than expand the UPMC Rooney Complex, they’ll need to raise the ceilings.
Brown’s 1,141 receiving yards not only leads the NFL, it is nearly an unprecedented pace in modern league history. In the 50 seasons in which the Super Bowl has existed, Brown’s are the second-most yards 10 games into it. Only Isaac Bruce had more with 1,183 through 10 games in 1995.
He has done this even though he was held to 11 receptions for 111 yards combined for three consecutive games — Baltimore, San Diego and Arizona — while Mike Vick started for the injured Roethlisberger and the passing game was stifled. His 79 receptions are one off the NFL lead.
read more
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2015/11/19/On-the-Steelers-7/stories/201511190098