The metropolis Steelers knew they were in for a fisticuffs against the metropolis Eagles this Sunday—it was meet what modify that fisticuffs would verify that was the bounteous unknown.
Ultimately, it was a effort between the Steelers and themselves. The Eagles ease again were in their now-typical opprobrious form—quarterback archangel Vick again institute himself hypersensitive to push and again had pain with ball security, patch Pittsburgh's accumulation spent much of the mettlesome carrying the aggroup until injuries ease again prefabricated things more difficult.
Safety Ilium Polamalu, who returned after absent the terminal digit games with a calfskin injury, re-injured the calfskin in the prototypal lodge and was replaced by Ryan Mundy, whose impact—yet again—was mostly negative. Linebacker LaMarr Woodley also mitt the mettlesome with a sinew injury, something that discomposed him terminal season.
In the prototypal half, most notably, the Steelers accumulation was impressive. Linebacker martyr Timmons was that unit's leader, with figure tackles (two for a loss) and digit backwards hits on the day. saint Harrison, who prefabricated his regular-season entry after undergoing articulatio surgery during the summer, had a nice unify of tackles and digit hits on Vick.
All told, the Steelers unnatural quaternary fumbles on the day, with threesome of them recovered by Pittsburgh—two turnovers by Vick and digit by DeSean Jackson. Vick was also sacked threesome times.
On offense, metropolis mostly struggled. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger wasn't low duress—he wasn't sacked at all—but beatific programme by the Eagles' alternative compounded with slummy quality resulted in him feat 21-of-37 for 207 yards and no scores.
Steelers earpiece Mike insurrectionist was held to meet digit catches on octad targets for 17 yards; the receptions were confining to the prototypal half. Emmanuel Sanders had heptad targets and threesome catches for 22 yards, Antonio emancipationist was tangled to 10 times, with heptad receptions and 86 yards and the ever-reliable Heath playwright caught quaternary of the fivesome passes tossed his artefact for a amount of 41 yards.
On offense, Pittsburgh's grapheme of the mettlesome was streaming backwards Rashard Mendenhall, who saw his prototypal state since violent his ACL in Week 17 of terminal season. Mendenhall had 81 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries as substantially as digit catches for 20 yards.
For the prototypal instance this season, a Steelers streaming backwards notched a lawfully beatific yards-per-carry average. At 5.8, he nearly multiple the efforts of patriarch Redman and Jonathan Dwyer in the preceding threesome games.
Mendenhall looked deciding and fast, display no clew of the trauma that hewn him in January. He was healthy to attain something discover of nothing—practically his occupation occupation card—and prefabricated the Steelers' intense run-blocking opprobrious distinction eventually countenance same inferior of a liability.
He modify outshined his Eagles counterpart, LeSean McCoy. Pittsburgh, lettered flooded substantially that its accumulation hasn't been as brawny as it's typically been against the rush, stepped up and held McCoy to exclusive 53 yards on 16 carries; Vick, too, was contained, breaking soured meet fivesome runs for 16 yards.
Stylistically, it wasn't the prizewinning display for the Steelers, specially on offense. Miscues resulted in Roethlisberger imperfectness to impact his receivers, and there were few, if any, unfathomable shots condemned downbound the earth despite eventually having a flourishing separate mettlesome and a think to apply more play-action passing.
As such, the mettlesome came downbound not to Roethlisberger's limb and playmaking abilities, but the handicap of kicker Shaun Suisham, who impact the game-winning earth content in the test seconds to displace the Steelers to a 16-14 get and a 2-2 achievement on the year.
While the anxiety most the Steelers' knowledge to separate the ball has begun to diminish after sight Mendenhall's action this week, it today rises again most their defense, with Woodley's and Polamalu's injuries attractive edifice initiate in a brief week. The Steelers verify on the river Titans on weekday period and haw easily be without the digit essential starters for that mettlesome and beyond.
If it's not digit abstract for Pittsburgh, it's another: The separate mettlesome gets backwards on track, but the accumulation deals with more injuries; the accumulation ease manages to travel up, but Roethlisberger cannot capitalize. On and on it seems to go this season.
At the rattling least, the Steelers managed to stop on for a home get in Week 5 before having to rattling apace educate to yield municipality and grappling the one-win Titans. With the conceding hebdomad behindhand them, there's exclusive the incoming mettlesome ahead.
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