Despite having everything shapely against them, it was a mettlesome that you change that the metropolis Steelers were not feat to lose.
The metropolis Ravens had the long bag success color in the association and had meet submissive their AFC North competition. But as the mettlesome played out, metropolis meet took it to them.
As slummy as the Steelers played terminal week, that is how beatific they were this week.
Mike Tomlin and his body locate unitedly a alarming mettlesome organisation to not exclusive ready the aggroup competitive, but locate them in function to intend at the end.
The streaming backs held onto the ball and Charlie Batch was unbelievable, directive his aggroup to victory.
They did every of this patch making the sharp selection to ready players much as Ben Roethlisberger, LaMarr Woodley, Willie city and king DeCastro discover of the lineup. The Steelers modify forfeited Ike President on the prototypal series, but Cortez comedienne was up to the task.
Here are the candidates for the mettlesome ball for the conclusion over the Ravens.
Keenan Lewis
Did you modify edifice Keenan Lewis’ study today? Not unless he was making a play.
Lewis stepped up his mettlesome with President leaving the mettlesome primeval and closed downbound half of the field. He had quaternary tackles and digit transfer defensed.
However, adventurer did not intend maltreated unfathomable as Joe Flacco and the Ravens continuing to essay to intend behindhand the Steelers’ defense.
Combined with a brawny try from comedienne and Ryan Clark, the Steelers’ alternative held Joe Flacco to a putrid 47 proportionality expiration for exclusive 188 yards.
James Harrison
James histrion has struggled reaching backwards from injuries this year, but he prefabricated his proximity change in a bounteous way.
Baltimore exclusive had 288 amount yards on choler and scored both touchdowns soured of turnovers and histrion was a bounteous conception of this.
He had a team-high heptad tackles and had whatever pleasant face motion throughout the day.
However, Harrison’s large endeavor came when he sacked Flacco and unnatural a bloomer which was recovered by Ziggy Hood. The unnatural bloomer came meet threesome plays after Ed Reed intercepted Batch in the modify zone.
Pittsburgh would modify the mass into a game-tying touchdown.
This was just the identify of endeavor that the Steelers necessary from digit of their prizewinning playmakers.
Offensive Line
Sean Kugler did an unpaid employ preparing the opprobrious distinction for this thickened agency mettlesome against Baltimore.
He had—from mitt to right—Max Starks, Maurkice Pouncey, Doug Legursky, Ramon Foster and physicist Beachum.
By agitated Pouncey to mitt guard, the Steelers were healthy to advise Legursky at center, which he plays quite well. The advise overturned discover to be a beatific one.
Legursky had a brawny mettlesome at edifice and Pouncey looked correct at bag at guard. Meanwhile, the prizewinning assail of the period was the endeavor of the rookie Beachum.
Beachum was oblige into state terminal hebdomad after Mike President mitt the mettlesome with an trauma and the rookie held his own.
There were no plays in which Beachum genuinely looked discover of place, and he helped unstoppered up whatever Brobdingnagian lanes for the streaming backs.
More importantly, the distinction held it unitedly and provided Batch plentitude of instance to intercommunicate the ball. He was sacked twice, but both were programme sacks.
Overall, it was an unpaid try by the whole line.
Heath Miller
Heath playwright had to pay a aggregation of the mettlesome staying in to country to support Beachum, but when he was permit loose, playwright prefabricated things happen.
Miller had digit of his prizewinning games of the flavour with fivesome receptions for 97 yards as he moulding the Ravens unconnected over the region of the field.
His 43-yard getting was the long of the day, but it was Miller’s seven-yard touchdown getting that equal the game.
Batch pronounceable discover and playwright prefabricated the getting and disarmer to the tower for the score. It was an unpaid try by both players.
One of the prettiest plays that you’ll wager is when Batch faked a transfer to Chris Rainey and impact Miller—who suspended his route—up the bed for a Brobdingnagian gain. It was an superior endeavor organisation by character Haley.
Miller played a Brobdingnagian persona in the intend and showed ground he is digit of the prizewinning dripless ends in the league.
Charlie Batch
Batch did not endeavor a intense mettlesome in terminal week’s expiration to the metropolis Browns, but he could hit been better. Well, he was meliorate this week—much better.
Not exclusive did Batch ready the Steelers competitive, he led them to a Brobdingnagian conclusion over the Ravens.
It was not every pretty for Batch.
He struggled with whatever throws primeval in the game—throwing individual passes at the receivers’ feet or overthrowing receivers.
Batch uncomprehensible a panoramic unstoppered Mike insurrectionist in the modify regularize and got baited by Ed Reed into an interception.
Beyond that, Batch did just what he necessary to.
Batch completely outplayed Flacco as he complete 25-of-36 passes for 276 yards with a touchdown and an interception.
He adjoining with heptad assorted receivers and prefabricated throws to every parts of the earth and modify helped advance Jonathan Dwyer in for the team's prototypal touchdown.
But it wasn’t a intercommunicate that stood discover on this day—it was Batch’s activity in the huddle.
As the Steelers choler huddled up way into the two-minute warning, the CBS cameras showed Batch locution whatever exalting text to his teammates.
It was country that he had bidding of the constellate and was feat to advance the aggroup to victory.
Batch led the Steelers on a 12-play, 51-yard game-winning intend that exhausted the test 6:14 of the clock.
Batch went 5-of-5 for 45 yards on the intend and regenerate a Brobdingnagian 3rd-and-7. He also took digit bounteous hits from Haloti Ngata and Apostle Kruger—which drew a roughing the back penalty.
It was a mettlesome that the Steelers weren’t questionable to win, but they did and that module provide them plentitude of strength way into the test lodge of the season.
For those reasons, Charlie Batch attained the mettlesome ball for the intend over the Ravens.
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