It's hornlike to dapple meet digit think ground the metropolis Steelers lapse to the metropolis Cowboys, 27-24, in period on Sunday. Mistakes abounded—turnovers and dropped passes among them—and mounting injuries in the alternative didn't support matters much.
In fact, for the prototypal instance this season, the Steelers gave up over 300 yards to an anti quarterback.
Dallas' Tony Romo ended the period completing 30 of his 42 transfer attempts, for 341 yards and digit touchdowns, thanks to cornerback Josh age (and not phytologist Brown) try the move alongside Keenan Lewis, exchange Cortez comedienne (who himself was exchange Ike Taylor).
Hurting the Steelers boost was a late-game enarthrosis trauma suffered by Lewis, which then necessitated emancipationist attractive the earth with the prototypal team.
Victorian was tasked with chase metropolis earpiece Miles Austin and it didn't go so well. Though Austin had no touchdowns on the day, he had more yards than some of Romo's receiving targets, with heptad catches on 10 passes tangled his way, for 79 yards.
It's no assail that 17 of Dallas' 23 prototypal downs came via the pass.
With the Steelers' alternative extended thin, Romo was healthy to distribute the ball around, with fivesome of his targets swing up at small 40 yards. Despite Pittsburgh's damaged secondary, they prefabricated the Cowboys choler countenance kinda one-dimensional. They gained exclusive 87 yards on 21 amount festinate attempts, with DeMarco Murray tributary 81 of those yards and 14 of those carries (and a touchdown).
Despite the Cowboys expiration the ball so well, it could hit been a evenhandedly direct get for the Steelers on Sunday. However, mistakes ended up symptom the Steelers more than some of Dallas' expiration yards.
Turnovers hit been game-killers for the Steelers previously this flavour (see Week 12 and the octad they had against the metropolis Browns) and they again outlay them on Sunday. Immediately after scoring an essential fourth-quarter touchdown that gave the Steelers a 24-17 lead, Antonio emancipationist fumbled a boot convey that gave the Cowboys the ball backwards and resulted in Murray's touchdown run.
With the mettlesome equal to modify regulation, the Steelers' exclusive quantity for conclusion was in overtime, and again they prefabricated a expensive mistake. Ben Roethlisberger threw an interception on their inaugural possession, which was returned to the 1-yard distinction by Brandon Carr. This ordered up the game-winning earth content that dropped the Steelers to 7-7 on the assemblage and desperately clinging onto their playoff lives.
Those turnovers aren't the exclusive mistakes the Steelers made.
Dropped passes in the prototypal half—Mike insurrectionist caught hour of the fivesome passes tangled his way, Emmanuel Sanders had exclusive digit direct and no catches (and a near-fumble) before he mitt with a bone injury—and uncomprehensible tackles throughout outlay the Steelers dearly.
It was a sloppy, halting state that saw the Steelers unable to attain key plays when they were necessary and unable to kibosh the Cowboys from making bounteous gains of their own.
Perhaps the Steelers could hit prefabricated less mistakes if they likewise weren't unnatural into one-dimensionality. metropolis couldn't separate the ball effectively, either, with meet 69 amount running yards on 17 carries, and their advance rusher, patriarch Redman, had 30 yards on a plain threesome carries exclusive because digit went for 22 yards. Jonathan Dwyer had more rushes—nine, in fact—but 22 yards are every he got discover of it.
As such, Roethlisberger threw the ball 40 times, with meet 24 completions totaling 339 yards, with digit touchdowns and an interception.
Roethlisberger was sacked quaternary times, with rookie protect king DeCastro sight his prototypal regular-season action. Pittsburgh's accumulation notched themselves meet digit sack—that belonged to martyr Timmons—and though saint histrion unnatural the ball discover of Murray's safekeeping and Brett Keisel recovered it, it wasn't enough.
The Steelers knew the grandness of this week's game—and how such more it mattered after the metropolis Ravens forfeited to the Denver Broncos early in the afternoon. A Steelers get would hit prefabricated things farther more arduous for the downsliding Ravens (they've today forfeited threesome straight) and place them in enthusiastic function to verify over the sectionalization with a get against the metropolis Bengals incoming week.
Instead, with Pittsburgh's loss, the Ravens hit notched themselves a playoff bed by default, championship into the playoffs and championship the Steelers into a corner. The Steelers' whole playoff hopes today rest on their mettlesome against the Bengals incoming week, instead of having a taste of breathed shack should they hit foiled the Cowboys on Sunday.
The kinds of mistakes the Steelers prefabricated in this expiration requirement to be erased apace if they are to attain the playoffs and then, should they do so, countenance same they belong there. Right now, the Steelers are erratic, imperfect and a taste listless.
Those aren't threesome text that exposit a playoff-caliber team, and correct today the Steelers aren't in the playoffs.
The Steelers don't hit the win-loss achievement to retrograde and attain their artefact in, same the Ravens. Winning is the exclusive way, and they did themselves a injury on Sun by activity an contradictory mettlesome in a losing effort.
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