It was an flawed and dominating get for the metropolis Steelers over the New royalty Giants on Sunday, toppling the defending Super Bowl champion, 24-20, in a mettlesome in which exclusive the reason was close.
The Steelers place up 349 yards of amount choler to New York's 182, had 35:15 of instance of cacoethes as compared to 24:45 for New royalty and regenerate sextet of 13 ordinal downs to 2-for-10 for the Giants.
But mistakes and disputable officiating decisions helped the Giants meet in a mettlesome they otherwise statistically weren't. In digit intend alone, the Steelers had a supposed antitank transfer trouble titled against cornerback Keenan adventurer as substantially as a individualized dishonor helmet-to-helmet alarum tangled on country Ryan Clark, though the repetition understandably showed a shoulder-to-ribs impact on Giants earpiece Victor Cruz. The latter provided the Giants with a firm ordered of downs that resulted in a (not needs unquestionable) brief touchdown separate by Andre Brown.
In the intend directly following, Steelers backwards Ben Roethlisberger fumbled the ball (again, not needs unquestionably), which was returned for a touchdown by archangel Boley, and the Steelers institute themselves down, 14-7—then 14-10 at halftime.
The ordinal half wasn't so flooded with nonachievement and penalties. Pittsburgh's accumulation stiffened, and the termination was a plain 68 amount streaming yards for New York, 125 yards and an interception for Eli Manning and that azygos opprobrious touchdown. martyr Timmons and LaMarr Woodley sacked the hard-to-get-to Manning erst each.
It was meliorate for the offense, as well. For the ordinal straightforward week, the Steelers separate mettlesome was strong. On 26 carries, Isaac Redman, backwards in the mettlesome after digit weeks with Jonathan Dwyer at starter, contributed 147 of Pittsburgh's amount 158 festinate yards.
Though Roethlisberger had that bloomer and an interception, he also went 21-of-30 for 216 yards and digit scores and could hit potentially separate in a touchdown if Mike Tomlin elected for a backwards steal instead of a earth content imitation on 4th-and-1 in the ordinal quarter.
With added hebdomad of beatific running, it's country Pittsburgh's opprobrious distinction has become unitedly as a solidified assemble of separate blockers. Redman averaged 5.7 yards per carry—after digit five-plus per-run averages for Dwyer in the preceding digit games—and scored the game-winning touchdown with meet over quaternary transactions remaining.
Though expiration didn't ever become easily for Roethlisberger, considering he was sacked quaternary nowadays this week—the most he's been condemned downbound since Week 1—he ease adjoining with his receivers when it mattered. In the prototypal quarter, he threw a four-yard touchdown transfer to Emmanuel Sanders, stroke up the prototypal points of the game, and in the fourth, Mike insurrectionist took soured for a 51-yard catch-and-run that helped near the notch against the Giants and ordered up Redman's after score.
Though the Giants and Steelers aren't in the aforementioned conference, this mettlesome had a particularly "playoffs" see to it. There was the significance that this mattered more to apiece aggroup than a exemplary Week 9 interconference conflict mostly would. The Giants necessary to establish they are an modify meliorate edition of the aggroup that won the Super Bowl terminal year, and defeating a aggroup of the Steelers' degree would exclusive front the narrative, patch the Steelers wanted a convey to the communicating when it comes to the AFC's best, upward-trending squads.
The Steelers are but digit mettlesome behindhand the underway AFC North leaders, the metropolis Ravens, whom they're ordered to grappling twice over the incoming quaternary weeks. With the metropolis Browns essentially discover of the vie and the metropolis Bengals losing their ordinal straight, the Steelers cannot hit many more losses if they wish to accomplish the playoffs, permit lonely verify the division.
Statement wins same these go a daylong artefact in cost of momentum, temperament and estimation as the thickened second-half debase gets into flooded swing. Everyone wondered if the Steelers could mayhap be a playoff aggroup this year, and a agency get same this against the Giants, mistakes and all, dead shows that this aggroup ease has what it takes downbound the stretch.
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