Steelers Win 19-11

In what can only be described in a defensive domination, the Steelers beat the Titans 19-11 in Nashville.  Really it wasn’t even that close.  The Steelers led 19-3 until the last minute of the game when they allowed a TD and two point conversion.  Other than that they DESTROYED the Titans offense.

It was almost like the Steelers read our Game Day section keys to the game. They scored first on the opening kick off when Antonio Brown ran the kick back on a reverse for a 7-0 lead.  The defense held Chris Johnson to 34 yards on 16 carries. Bye Bye 12 straight 100 yard games!  They made Vince Young throw, and oh, that turned into 4 turnovers from Young, 7 total by the Titans!  Jeff Fisher was so pissed at Young that he benched  him and brought in Kerry Collins who was marginally better but not nearly enough. 

Troy Polamalu, who was upset with his play last week, was dominant. He made another pick and how about that play in the 4th when he leap frogged the entire Titan O Line and sacked Collins mid air as Collins was just receiving the ball from the center!  Unreal!

While the defense was awesome, the offense was putrid. Dixon did run a few more times this week but was hurt and really not effective. They brought in Charlie Batch who was also not effective. The run game was stuffed and the O Line looked porous again. There are some problems there, at least until Ben gets back.  We think you’ll see Leftwich re signed and start the next two weeks.  It’s hard to argue against that at this point. 

A couple of notes, let’s see Brown return more punts, look, we love Randle El for his 2005 contributions, but that was five years ago, he should not be returning kicks/punts or anything else anymore.

Will Allen, please learn what to do on an onside kick. You REALLY could have made that game a bad loss with a dumb play like that. 

Other than, we got the W and that’s all that counts.

2-0, up next Tampa Bay.