The Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday dropped an unforgiving hammer on San Francisco in a 43-18 win over the 49ers. Here's what you need to know:



1. Welcome back to earth, San Francisco. The Niners coaxed Teddy Bridgewater into one of the worst games of his young career in the opener. They had no such luck against a zoned-in Ben Roethlisberger, 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 struggled to find his rhythm against a physical Steelers defensive front (raise your hand if you really expected to read that at this stage)...........

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