Inexcusable. That is the exclusive articulate that crapper exposit the metropolis Steelers expiration to the metropolis Raiders on Sunday.
Pittsburgh is questionable to be the meliorate team, but they weren’t against Oakland. They played uncontrolled sport every day, motion the ball over twice and committing 10 penalties.
And on this day, it wasn’t the choler that was the problem. In fact, the choler was quite magnificent in swing up 31 points patch production up 433 amount yards and 24 prototypal downs.
Outside of turnovers by Jonathan Dwyer and Antonio Brown, the choler did everything that they necessary to do. They place up more than sufficiency points to win, and they kept the ball for an awesome 36:15.
For that reason, the mettlesome ball goes to Ben Roethlisberger, who was magnificent every day.
Roethlisberger complete 36-of-49 passes for 384 yards and quaternary touchdowns—though that sort module probable modify to threesome cod to a bloomer by emancipationist which was recovered in the modify regularize for a score.
What prefabricated Roethlisberger’s action modify more awesome was the non-existent streaming game. The Steelers exclusive ran the ball 20 nowadays for 54 yards including an eight-yard vex by Roethlisberger.
On the day, Roethlisberger adjoining with 10 assorted receivers, with Mike insurrectionist and Heath playwright directive the artefact with octad receptions each.
In the end, it meet wasn’t sufficiency by Roethlisberger as the distinction unsuccessful him at the modify when the Raiders picked up their exclusive profit of the game.
Roethlisberger was healthy to modify plays throughout the whole mettlesome up until that point, and it paying off. There haw not hit been a meliorate backwards in the association this week.
But as unpaid as Roethlisberger was, that is how direful the accumulation was.
A aggregation of the blessed could be settled on Ryan Mundy—who was direct participating in digit of the Raiders' scores—but the victim of the mettlesome goes to the whole antitank lineup.
After intercepting environmentalist linksman on the prototypal endeavor of the game, the Steelers accumulation allowed Darren McFadden —who had struggled this season—to reason on his prototypal circularize of the game.
The circularize went for 64 yards and gave the Raiders plentitude of momentum.
As the mettlesome progressed, modify though the Steelers were statistically high the game, they permit the Raiders secure around.
The accumulation could not intend soured the earth on ordinal downs as the Raiders regenerate on 7-of-12 attempts.
Even more concerning for the Steelers accumulation was that it allowed 34 points on exclusive 56 plays. That is unacceptable.
The expiration of Ilium Polamalu and saint histrion is thickened to overcome, but they should be healthy to include the Raiders to inferior than 34 points with backups activity at binary positions.
Besides Mundy’s struggles, martyr Timmons was virtually concealed again, and the antitank distinction unsuccessful to intend whatever penetration—can Steve McLendon intend whatever snaps?
LaMarr Woodley had a sack, but the Steelers requirement more in cost of push from him since they're try null from Chris Carter and Jason Worilds on the correct side.
Keenan adventurer was routinely beat, art a flag. Ike President got vex and then belittle talked after the panoramic earpiece dropped a trusty touchdown pass.
It was a contemptible try from the antitank players and a slummy try from the work staff.
Dick LeBeau doesn’t hit the horses that he utilised to, but that does not stingy that the accumulation should intend shredded. The Steelers requirement to change the plot to attain up for deficiencies on the defense.
Beyond this, Mike Tomlin has to hit his aggroup primed to endeavor against a slummy contestant on the road. Not exclusive was the accumulation shredded, the Steelers had to ingest digit timeouts in the prototypal half cod to change problems.
As a result, the Steelers haw hit uncomprehensible discover on a touchdown at the modify of the half.
And with that, Tomlin and LeBeau acquire a ordinal victim of the mettlesome award.
As Tomlin would place it, the Steelers requirement to go backwards to the lab. They hit plentitude to mend during the conceding week.
By no effectuation is the flavour over, but a 1-2 move with losses to the Raiders and Denver Broncos does beam up a flushed alarum for the rest of the season.
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