stillers4me
11-09-2010, 05:26 AM
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
By Gene Collier, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Peter Diana/Post-Gazette
Steelers linebacker Jason Worilds picks up fumble on the opening kickoff against the Bengals during Monday's game at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI -- Had it not been for a handful -- OK, a fistful -- of pie-in-the-face special teams plays, the Cincinnati Bengals would be alive today.
As it is, they're a dead AFC North entity, about as relevant to the second half of this football season as a blackened jack-o'-lantern with its face kicked in.
That the Steelers still needed a half-dozen clutch defensive plays in the final two minutes of this riotous divisional struggle was a result of their ridiculous play-calling with a 20-point lead, not to mention a meltdown of discipline that translated into four very-near lethal penalties, two against Ike Taylor, one against Casey Hampton and the other on offensive tackle Flozell Adams..............
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10313/1101891-66.stm#ixzz14mdqJO2q
By Gene Collier, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/201011/20101109steelers2_330.jpg
Peter Diana/Post-Gazette
Steelers linebacker Jason Worilds picks up fumble on the opening kickoff against the Bengals during Monday's game at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI -- Had it not been for a handful -- OK, a fistful -- of pie-in-the-face special teams plays, the Cincinnati Bengals would be alive today.
As it is, they're a dead AFC North entity, about as relevant to the second half of this football season as a blackened jack-o'-lantern with its face kicked in.
That the Steelers still needed a half-dozen clutch defensive plays in the final two minutes of this riotous divisional struggle was a result of their ridiculous play-calling with a 20-point lead, not to mention a meltdown of discipline that translated into four very-near lethal penalties, two against Ike Taylor, one against Casey Hampton and the other on offensive tackle Flozell Adams..............
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10313/1101891-66.stm#ixzz14mdqJO2q