Pittsburgh Steelers 13 Tennessee Titans 10: A Look at the Plays

Just noticed he already made one. But I’ll continue to do my weekly post. Unless you want me to submit it to you each week and you put it up.

The Good.
Many people said Kerry Collins wouldn’t be as good as last year, but he is proving them wrong. Kerry Collins finished 22/35 for 244 yards with 1 TD and 1 INT.

Justin Gage has developed into a great receiver for this team. He caught 7 passes for 78 yards with 1 TD.

Kenny Britt had a big night for his NFL debut. 4 catches for 85 yards with his longest being 57 yards that set up the TD in the 2nd.

The running game was good, but not great. Chris Johnson had 15 carries for 57 yards with Lendale having 8 for 28.

Our run defense. Even though the Steelers running back aren’t that great, it’s always nice to hold a team to 38 yards rushing.

We sacked Big Ben 4 times and forced him into throwing two interceptions.

We racked up 320 yards on the number one defense.

The Bad.
We didn’t win.

Collins interception. I would’ve liked to see Britt try and fight for the ball, or knock it down at least.

Scaife’s fumble. It was just a weird play in general.

Field position. We were backed up at our goal line the entire game.

The Ugly.
One missed field goal and another blocked. Come on!

David Stewart. What the hell man?! Every time we got a 1st down, it was called back because of a penalty by him.

The defensive play calling. I was one of the guys who thought Cecil would be a huge improvement over Jim. We looked great in the 1st Quarter when the Steelers had -2 yards of offense. But during the two minute warning and the entire 3rd, 4th, and OT we were rushing 3 guys and letting Ben set back in the pocket for a decade to find a receiver. Ben had a career high in passing against us. Which is un-funking acceptable! Cecil needs to get his crap together before he gets run out of town.

Here’s a stat thanks to Paul Kuharsky:
When the Titans added pressure Ben was 6/8 for 43 yards. When the Titans rushed with four, he was 27/35 for 320 yards.

Blown opportunities! Every sports analyst said we would’ve won the game if we didn’t make mistakes.

All in all, this game left a bad taste in my mouth, just like the Ravens game last year.

   kind of seems like we picked up where we left off last year with losing a game we should have won.
   somebody needs to stop doing something they are doing cus we got some bad karma going on.
  the play that sticks out in my mind the most is sending 3 guys and giving rapistberger to much time.
  i thought cecil was supposed to be aggresive i did not see it last night.
  if anybody was a oilers fan when buddy ryan was running the defence it was a sight to be seen. people comming from every direction pressue non stop. the qbs would throw the ball out of fear to the sidelines just like kerry did last night on one of the finale drives.
  ii dont understand why fisher has gotten away from buddy ryans defence hell buddy ryan is the one that brought fisher to the oilers cus they were together in philly.
  all in all kerry collins seemed like his passes floated in the air to long. no zip on the ball
   if the coaches are going to turn into wussies and not be aggresive and play prevent defence so we dont lose we will lose. you have to play defence to win and thats being aggresive. i give cecil a break cus its his first game but iam no going to give him much more of a break.
  sorry for the negativity i saw posatives but the disapointing loss to start the season as we left last year just pisses me off cus i thought we shoud have corrected stupid mistakes so we dont lose games we should have won!!