No redemption this time. Not the way I really want to start a season’s-worth of recaps. That game was a great battle between Pittsburgh’s possession and Denver’s quick scores, and 1 mistake ended it. Down 6 with 3+ on the clock is usually a given, only Ben tried to thread a pass to a well-covered […]

Looking forward to 2012 training camp. Go Steelers. (thanks to Doug for the banner pic)

The Steelers beat the Browns 13-9 and the regular season is over. Playoffs are on the horizon, and the Steelers fly out to Denver to take on the Stampede-ing Tebows. Or as

Somehow this was the Steelers 4th late game of the season. And 2nd in a row. And 3rd in the past few weeks. There’s no way I’m getting anything remotely close to a recap after a late game, let alone a loss. So like the previous 3 late games (1, 2, 3), here’s a gif […]

No way I’m recapping that late of a game. Steelers won, Browns lost, and that’s that. Plus I already set the precedent of just posting a gif of my feelings after late games (1, 2) so I have no clue what you were expecting. Greg Lloyd adequately sums up my feelings regarding both the Cotchery […]

Weren’t we just here? If it felt like we just played the Bengals, it’s because we just did. But where that was closer than anyone would like to admit, this one was a certifiable beatdown. Cincy had a chance to go up early but repeatedly took points off the board with silly penalties. An early […]

The last time we had a Sunday night game I didn’t really recap it it and instead just used an animated gif. We lost to the Ravens, and I was too tired to recap. I’ll follow the same route after a close win. The Steelers shouldn’t have let such an inferior opponent hang around, and […]

Who knew that turnovers could swing a game? With only 4 takeaways all season, the Steelers D hadn’t had a game where they literally took the win from the other offense. Lawrence Timmons and Willie Gay changed that with 2 fourth quarter picks to finally get to surprisingly efficient rookie Andy Dalton. Gay’s was especially […]

It’s an hour later than normal due to Daylight Savings ending and the Steelers just lost. Left enough time on the clock for the Ravens, a script we saw last year. I’m pissed that we lost but whatever. Cincy next week and then a lot of games on the schedule still. The end. (thanks to […]

Ben Roethlisberger was given the opportunity to beat the Patriots and he delivered. This wasn’t a game where we rode Jerome Bettis to clock-eating drives. Ben followed through on the clock-eating part, but it was done through the air. That’s no small detail. Ben controlled the flow of the game and limited Tom Brady’s on-field […]

The Steelers opened the 2nd Half with a 5-play, 23 yard drive which led to a punt. This coulda been the moment where the Steelers shut off the offense and rode the D to a win. Much like last week. It was a huge moment and was interesting to see if the team would respond […]

I missed the first ~20 or so minutes of game time, meaning I came into it right after the Mendenhall long run. So my experience with this game was the Steelers only scoring 3 points 4 plays later while giving up 13 over the next half-plus. So as you can understand, I was a little […]

Why are we even here, recapping a Steelers game? A huge swath of Steelers fans seemed to write off the season after the loss last week. So isn’t the season over? There’s no use playing the rest of the year what with this patchwork O Line and old defense and lack of running game. 38-17 […]

I’m sort of afraid to look around cos there was a lot of wailing and thrashing after this game went final and Twitter looked like it was collectively ready to fold the season cos there’s no way this Steelers season can be a success. You know, after 4 games, 3 of which have been on […]

Last week I mocked Tony Siragusa by filling my first paragraph with nonstop references to his faulty unsmooth criticisms of the Steelers offense. This week I came pretty close to filling this opening paragraph with just Peyton Manning’s name over and over. I mean his name was brought up as much if not more often […]