Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Eli Rogers tangles with kicking net

But he did make all five placekicks, and two of his other three kickoffs were touchbacks (albeit one aided by a penalty).

“We’ll just blame it on the O-line”, Foster said the day after the Steelers fell to the Ravens, 21-14, in Baltimore.

The Ravens regained the lead on fullback Kyle Juszczyk’s 10-yard run, and with 1:18 left at his own 25, and trailing by 27-24, Roethlisberger stepped behind center with a chance to do something he did far more often in his younger days than he has recently.

The Baltimore Ravens 2016 season can be summarized with: not good enough.

The post Steelers win AFC North with 31-27 thriller over Ravens appeared first on Cover32. Baltimore had won four straight games against the Steelers and six of the last seven meetings. The Baltimore Ravens season is now over a week early; they go into week 17 with nothing to play for.

More importantly, the Steelers needed to beat the Ravens to settle their psyche.

The players obviously were aware of those comments and took them to heart. “They made the play, we didn’t”. “We were able to do it”. Brown was stood up inside the 1, but somehow extended the ball – barely – into the end zone.

“They made great throws, catches, he got of the pocket and made some plays”, Harbaugh said. None of them can stop Antonio Brown from getting the score.

While he was generally clean in the first half, the third quarter proved to be a disaster, as he ended two of the Steelers’ three drives there with an interception. The Cavaliers trailed by 14 in the fourth quarter before winning their first meeting with Golden State since Cleveland erased a three-games-to-one deficit in winning the NBA Finals over Golden State. In goal-to-go situations, the Steelers were a ideal 2-for-2. For the line to hold up without Heyward and Stephon Tuitt (knee) would have been unthinkable just a few months ago. “I said, we have best defense in NFL”.

“Being on P-squad is tough but I just told [Ayers] to just recognize where you are”, tight end Xavier Grimble said.

Normally, when you’re over nine minutes behind in the time-of-possession game, it is an unsatisfactory result on the scoreboard. They really had our number the last couple of times we played them. Those drives were important for the Ravens to keep them in the game and in it until the end.

But all those concerns-Brown’s inconsistent involvement, Roethlisberger’s misfires and an offense that sputters for a while before igniting-can melt away because of one constant: Bell. But he never got to attempt a 45-yard kick, as Morgan Cox’s high snap was mishandled by punter/holder Sam Koch. The Ravens entered the game with the No. 2-ranked defense, but that was misleading because they have played one of the weakest schedules in the league. He’s just light years ahead of where you’d think a third-year player would be, both mentally and the way he carries himself.

Meanwhile, Pittsburgh can lock up the North with a win today. Brown gathered in just one pass before halftime as the hosts ran just 24 first-half plays. In a game like this, ball control is important and that all starts with Bell.