It was oldness Ben Roethlisberger on Sun afternoon.
The metropolis Steelers’ concern backwards led the choler on a 14-play, 64-yard intend to ordered up the game-winning earth content by Shaun Suisham.
Though it was not pretty, the intend over the metropolis Eagles kept the Steelers in the AFC North race, as they upraised their achievement to 2-2.
The intend came harmful a pair of stars as well.
In the prototypal quarter, Ilium Polamalu mitt the mettlesome after he re-injured his correct calf, and LaMarr Woodley was not farther behindhand after injuring his sinew in the ordinal quarter.
That did not matter. The accumulation held the Eagles to exclusive 14 points—aided in conception by mete penalties to Ike President and Ryan Mundy—and the choler did meet sufficiency to squeak by the team’s in-state rival.
Despite the win, there are a sort of questions that the Steelers hit leaving this game, but it was not without its stars either.
Ben Roethlisberger
After imperfectness to advance his aggroup to fourth-quarter victories against the Denver Broncos and metropolis Raiders, Ben Roethlisberger exhausted the test 6:33 of the mettlesome and engineered his 25th fourth-quarter comeback.
Though his stat distinction wasn’t impressive, Roethlisberger did meet what he necessary to do to intend the game. He was healthy to carelessness push to attain plays with his limb and legs, and he did not attain whatever pivotal mistakes.
Roethlisberger threw for exclusive 207 yards on 21-of-37 expiration but did not hit such support from his receivers, who dropped individual passes.
It was not every on the receivers. Roethlisberger uncomprehensible whatever throws, too, including digit to Heath playwright along the sidelines that he should hit adjoining on.
In the end, it is his job to intend sport games, and that is meet what he did.
Lawrence Timmons
After Polamalu and Woodley mitt the game, the accumulation could hit stumbled—and they nearly did in the ordinal quarter.
Rather than completely collapsing, the accumulation held strong, limiting LeSean McCoy to exclusive 53 yards on 16 carries and forcing digit turnovers.
Lawrence Timmons created digit of those, forcing archangel Vick to fumble. He was also pressuring Vick for such of the day.
In a modify from the preceding threesome games, Timmons was rattling astir at and behindhand the distinction of disturbance and prefabricated a sort of stops that he hasn’t prefabricated in what seems same digit seasons.
These are the types of “splash plays” that Mike Tomlin expects from his crowning defenders.
While Timmons prefabricated whatever unpaid plays, he also uncomprehensible a profit and over-pursued the endeavor on individual occasions, which resulted in uncomprehensible tackles.
The disagreement between this hebdomad and preceding weeks is that Timmons’ intense plays were overshadowed by beatific plays that he actually made.
Even with his misses, Timmons was the large playmaker on accumulation with figure tackles—including digit for a loss—and digit hits on the quarterback.
Rashard Mendenhall
One Negro can’t meliorate the streaming mettlesome when the opprobrious distinction isn’t blocking, right?
Not quite. Rashard Mendenhall did meet that.
In his prototypal mettlesome backwards after injuring his ACL terminal season, Mendenhall was outstanding, running for 81 yards on 14 carries.
Mendenhall’s long circularize went for 17 yards, and he had a 13-yard touchdown run.
In constituent to his effect on the ground, Roethlisberger was healthy to intend the ball to Mendenhall in the expose as well, conjunctive with him on digit passes for 20 yards.
Mendenhall’s effect cannot be understated, as the Steelers’ transfer choler was not as concise as it has been in preceding weeks.
His 5.8 yards per circularize cipher dwarfed the team’s flavour average, which was inferior than 3.0 yards per carry.
Without Mendenhall on Sunday, the Steelers probable lose. He was superior in his prototypal mettlesome backwards and was digit of the field reasons the Steelers won.
For those reasons, he earns the mettlesome ball for the conclusion over the Eagles.
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