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Game balls. LeVeon Bell. His one play flipped the momentum.
Big Ben. After an atrocious start he played a good game.
The Beard!!!!!! Keisel was the man tonight!!!
Goats. Cortez Allen. I'm done defending him. His play was putrid again.
James Harrison. Only time he gets his number called all game was on a foolish pf. that helped give the Texans their last sliver of life.
"A man's got to know his limitations."
AB is the man.
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Additional goat Dri Archer. Who's idea was it to put him on the hands team?Almost fumbled the game to overtime!
Additional game ball. Pouncey. Damn he can get down the field and block!
"A man's got to know his limitations."
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Game ball to Bell. He was the one guy locked in. Ben and AB followed suit, but Bell was the man tonight.
Goats...how could it be anyone else? Cortez Allen. Wow. Abysmal.
Other honorable mentions: Martavis Bryant. Good start to his first NFL game. DANIEL MCCULLERS. Good God. I wish I could make a gif of that play he drove the center back 10 yards.
Game balls: Michael Palmer for sealing (and probably saving) the game with a superb heads up play on the onside kick. Bell and AB who continue to produce, Martavis, great 1st catch, and Ben who was overall steady tonight. Also give one to Mike Mitchell for the great strip.
Game goats: The defense in general for nearly giving up 400 yards to a Ryan Fitzpatrick offense and for that awful final drive. More specifically giving it to Cortez Allen who had another stinker, Dri Archer and his Limas Sweed hands, and Timmons for pulling a McNabb and puking on the field. Another one to Todd Haley for those neanderthal pass attempts on 2nd and 3rd down right before the final TD drive. Run the ball and take 40 seconds off the clock.
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Yeah I thought about him, but you got to get that second foot down in the end zone.Originally Posted by fansince'76
I keed! He gets one too. And what a pass!
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I thought the defense played good for most of the game. Put it this way, they had an awful first quarter and a lousy end. But I thought the end was due to going to prevent defense.
"A man's got to know his limitations."
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Ben, Brown and Bell.
Brown is freakin incredible.
"With love, with patience, and with Faith
....She'll make her way" ~ Natalie Merchant
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I agree, hard work and a bit of talent! Timmons gets one also for barfing all over the field.
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Honorable mention to Timmons' vomit.
I think the team should get one as a whole for getting the dumbass penalties under control. 6 for 38 yards tonight. And one of those was that boneheaded one by Harrison for 15.
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And two were intentional delay of game penalties that made no difference.
"A man's got to know his limitations."
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And no drive killers. Those are the ones that drive me nuts, especially when somebody's made a really good play that gets wiped out because of it.
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dishonorable goat mention Mike Tomlin for flipping the momentum and field position away from his team for not having the balls to go for it on 4th and inches at the Texans 40. Within 3 plays the Texans moved the ball to where the ball would have turned over on downs had the Steelers failed to convert.
"A man's got to know his limitations."
I knew AB got robbed on that overturned call. There was no white paint on that divot he kicked up.
Even during the seasons where Tomlin generally received praise, it was said that his clock management was awful.
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This is what pisses me off. Replay isn't supposed to overturn the play unless there's incontravertible proof that the call on the field was wrong. Had the call on the field been no touchdown I would have been fine with the play standing. But I hate when they go looking to overturn when the proof isn't there!
"A man's got to know his limitations."
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I'd like to shove that still shot of AB's foot in right up the replay official's ass! He should be fined by the league for incompetence.
"A man's got to know his limitations."
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Yes, and yes.
Two that were intentional, and were good intentional penalties. A third one that I thought was good penalty was Troy P's dive. That close to the endzone, the momentum on the side of the Texans for the drive, no fear of stopping the clock because at that point, the clock will restart when the ball is snapped again anyway, and a chance to really screw things up for the other teamI have no problem with that penalty. That leaves only three penalties. One I don't remember, one was a passing interference that was rightly called, but it was a working penalty, rather than a stupid penalty, and one when the O line jumped. That was the only dumb penalty of the entire game.
BTW, anyone notice how the o line settled down a bit after Adams came in on the right side? I think it's time to give him a shot over there again.
Suisham
Goat - C. Allen
Hater = Realist
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Ya know, I remember thinking that very thing during the game. Gilbert looked liked a scared baby out there before he went out. (I did call that in the prediction thread
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Don't forget Harrison's stupid roughing the passer penalty.
I agree with you on the Polmalu offsides. Nothing to lose. If he times it right that's huge.
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Suisham was money today on all of his kicks.
"A man's got to know his limitations."
Goat: The fact that Heyward Bey is on the hands team
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i agree they need punishment of some kind if they take money away from them maybe just maybe they will make sure they get it right.
Ball: AB & Bell honorable mention McCain for actually playing up on WR and not giving 5 to 10 yard cushion
Goat: Tez is a head case at the moment haley for not trying to run the clock out and throw if you need too
For those i love i will sacrifice.
Si ventus non est, remiga
DHB is what he is, and probably could have some value to the team when we do things like go four wide.
But last week he was gunning and this week he's on the hands team. WHY?! Tomlin should have fired Danny Smith right during that timeout. [not really, but sheesh]
Game balls:
Bell. That guy is just incredible at everything. He almost never takes a bad loss. This is the running back I've been waiting for for almost 10 years.
Brown. His usual bad self.
Honorable mention to Timmons, for an impressive boot and rally. Gay, for being not light-out but at least dependable and with no major fuck-ups that I saw, which is hugely important for this team. Adams for also coming in in a pinch and remaining unnoticed for almost the entire game, which for him is huge.
Goats:
Dri Archer. He has been completely useless for us in every game. What the hell were we thinking?
Haley. 2 minutes of genius and 48 minutes of tease-tease-tease-BONEHEAD MOVE. Aside from the long bomb that worked and two scores off of incredibly fortunate turnovers, the offense mostly looked good in the middle of the field, then screwed it up and kicked field goals. If we'd stuck to our normal habits and gotten a holding penalty in the middle of every drive, we'd have been lucky to score more than 3 points based on pure offensive effort. As the announcers pointed out, the last time three touchdowns were scored that quickly by one team was the Butt Fumble game; I'll take a lucky win, but you cannot count on getting the ball back inside your opponents' 10 twice per contest.
Overall, this was our typical game with a lot of good fortune thrown our way. Like the Panthers game, I don't know whether I feel more like we won it, or our opponents shot themselves in the foot and suffered from obvious flaws. A win's a win, but we were very lucky to get this one.
See you Space Cowboy ...
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We should file that onsides kick away as an example for our own special teams for the next time we get in that situation ourselves. Our onsides kicks tend to be easy enough for a middle school team to field.
"A man's got to know his limitations."
not going to get overly excited ... remember this team was getting their asses handed to them until the 3 min mark of the second Q and without that 3 min spurt it would have been a laugher at the end as well ...
was their some bright spots ..... sure but I am not going to mistake those bright spots as a turn around nor will I mistake this win for one either ...
yes some good signs but some bad ones as well ( remember we got into a pretty big hole or we would not have had to bail ourselves out of one )
Youngsters getting a hat was a step in the right direction and for the most part where impactful , but this staff is liable to not give them a hat again next week unless injuries dictate they get one so I will not hold my breath .....
stack wins over the next few weeks and you may convince me , otherwise I am just a critical onlooker who refuses to be fooled
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Bell gave the Steelers a lift when they needed it most Monday night.
Several of them, actually.
The Steelers trailed, 13-0, midway through the second quarter. It wouldn’t be quite accurate to say the offense was doing nothing because quarterback Ben Roethlisberger had lost a fumble, leading to a Houston field goal. The crowd, such as it was minus about 9,000 no-shows, was booing lustily. There was an overwhelming feeling the home team was headed toward another crushing loss at Heinz Field that surely would put their season in jeopardy.
Bell didn’t allow it to happen. He took a little dump pass over the middle from Roethlisberger on a third-and-10 play and, after shrugging off Houston linebacker Brian Cushing, turned it into a 43-yard gain. It was the play of the game. It gave the Steelers life. They had to settle for a field goal, but, as it turned out, it was just the start of their best offensive quarter of the season. They scored three touchdowns in the final 1:27.
“I saw it was man-to-man coverage,” Bell said. “I knew I had a chance to get the rock. I made sure I won the match-up [against Cushing].”
Roethlisberger loved it.
“That play was huge. It flipped the field. I think it was our first third-down conversion. It got us started.”
Bell caught a 28-yard screen pass to set up the Steelers’ first touchdown, cutting the Houston lead to 13-10. Later, he had a 2-yard touchdown catch to give the Steelers a 24-13 lead. He finished with eight catches for 88 yards.
“His awareness is unbelievable,” Roethlisberger said. “On that touchdown play, he went in motion and he was supposed to run a fade pattern. He saw the coverage and broke it off [outside safety D.J. Swearinger]. He made that play.”http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/r...s/201410210153
This is why I gave Bell my primary game ball. His 3rd down conversation changed the course of the game.
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