2010 Patriots @ Steelers

back in Pittsburgh ready to start the game who's in who's out tonight for more on that to the field we go in a Andrea Kramer Andrea it starts Stephen nail out Dan Connolly starts in his place Pittsburgh unveils its fourth different starting offensive line combination tonight including a new left side tackle Mac Starks out for the season with a neck guard Chris Kemoeatu out tonight with the knee in their place Jonathan Scott having his bill inside a big deal it offensive coordinator percerin said whoever had been there it changes nothing that we do and al linebacker James Harrison showed up on the injury report yesterday with back spasms Mike Tomlin told me he's fine all right Thank You Andrea tonight's matchup of course two teams not in the same division but they might as well be with this rivalry Tom Brady Ben Roethlisberger three rings for Tom o 1 o 3 o 4 and then Roethlisberger following the O 5 + o 8 seasons this is the first time in a quarter century since 1985 you've had a game featuring quarterbacks with multiple Super Bowl rings Plunket against Montana back in 85 Shayne Graham and he's a story Stephen Gostkowski is on injured reserve they're thicker so Graham the one-time Bengal who picked in one game for the Giants this year he'll be there place kicker they hope for the rest of the year they signed him this week this dosti was a good and what about Graham pretty good beginning to the goal-line ago is Emmanuel Sanders [Music] brings it back to the 26 yard line let's take a look at the Steelers offense Ben Roethlisberger's Miami University Rashard Mendenhall Illinois Hines Ward Georgia fight was old farewell to high school Keith Miller Virginia mask faith Minnesota Jonathan Scott Texas Vermont Foster Sena suit marques pounces Florida TRAI Essex Northwestern dwells on Adams Michigan State Adams the longtime cowboy Patriots won the toss tonight elected to defer so they put their defense out on the field with those four rookies in the starting lineup over right guard a gain of just two Ron grace making the stop so ben roethlisberger out of Miami of Ohio picked in the first round in all four wins the Super Bowl after his second season wins the Super Bowl after his fifth season and right now is we saw his numbers three and one on the win-loss ledger in the last four games and again maxed up with Tom Brady warming up on the Patriots sideline seven from just outside the 20 [Applause] [Music] Roethlisberger out of the gun and has that knocked down at the line of scrimmage and that was Gary guy number 59 the inside linebacker to swat it down third and seven well you would expect they're gonna test the left side but here they're gonna come with the Blitz over here on the right side of the Pittsburgh Steelers offense where their offensive line is intact Titan gets his hands up and that's a good start because now the Patriots get a chance to get into some of their gimmick defenses after stopping the run which was a major issue for them last week against the third and seven the welding more is the third down back using the vacuum of blanking Roethlisberger he had a concussion last year the past not only the tests and in the game here tonight play clock all the way down as 0s damn close over the middle and that one gets swatted down by Kyle Harrington so a very good opening defensive series for the Patriots after deferring and Pittsburgh the punt well this time they are going to test that left side they're all going to come from this way over here and a pretty nice job in the backend by Kyle Arrington covering up Mike Wallace one on one that's not bad for a got you pick up off the waiver wire he's been pretty good Dan just appalled into the left footed kicker sending it Julian Edelman zwey we pull through a fair catch at the 31-yard line and that's where Brady will go to work for the first time tonight as we take a look at the New England starters Tom Brady Michigan Danny Woodhead the shattered state college Wes Welker Texas Tech Brennan tape Nokia lon via France Louisville Algie Crumpler North Carolina that light Purdue University Logan Menken's Fresno State Boston College dank town without these desert that's from bombing the University of Houston contract dispute had him out until last week he makes his second start of the season then Jarvis green Ellis gets the start at running back and they begin with a pass that is caught by Rob Gronkowski a rookie out of Arizona silver Tom Brady 11th year in the league and you all know the story pic well down in the draft in 2002 over when Drew Bledsoe got hurt an old one led him to the Super Bowl had that knee injury on opening day two years ago good year last year but it ended with a New England lost to Baltimore in the playoffs and now he's guided the team to a 6 into martha squad Harrison is there and here talked about the back spasms Woodhead is now in the backfield with Brady second and four they say and Grady good pocket throws and it's caught and that'll be a first down down G Crumpler making the catch let's take a look at the Pittsburgh defense Ricky hood Missouri JC hams into Texas Nikki's Clemson University Lamar Woodley University of Michigan James Farrior Virginia Lawrence Timmons Florida State James Harrison Kingston Brian McFadden go to state Troy Polamalu University of Southern California Brian Clark LSU I t-square universe that Pittsburgh defense mentioned at the top fewest points allowed in the lead and radiation able to check it down and picks up another first down Gronkowski makes another guy so he's been going to his tight ends on the opening drive first down to England if you're gonna beat Pittsburgh you have to be able to do it on the outside here against these outside linebackers and for Matt light he's just an old warhorse out there and of course we'll keep an eye on Harrison and see how that back holds up but Brady looking one way comes back to the back side and you better start this week [Music] especially on the kickoff recall for a fair tax and then didn't tax the ball that resulted in the kernel and and this has been Jarvis green Alice inside the 35 and takes a couple of guys for a ride down to the 30-yard line Logan Mankins helping to lead the way and that's an 18 yard run and that's the longest run of the season against the Pittsburgh defense one of the surprises has been this guy right here algae Crumpler as a blocker you'll remember him back in the days with Atlanta and catching all those balls well now he's sort of become the go-to blocker on this team and now I think that might have been the longest run against the Steelers defense all year this mentioned it had been 14 yards that goes for 18 and the ball is at the 30-yard line first down again five receivers and the passes court and this time it's west looker taking it to the 20 yard line one thing about Bill Belichick through the years when he faces Pittsburgh he is passed crazy take a look at this in the regular season 73% of the time against Pittsburgh he throws the ball 55:45 against all of the teams and brady in those games a free figure pass rating regular-season games against the Steelers before first downs on the show Marine Ellis this time that stopped in his tracks at the crossing that's one of the yard line James Farrior makes the tackle well the one thing that Belichick always does is he comes out and he's going to check you out defense Lee how you're going to play and I was wondering would he play this thing with a lot of wide receivers spread around but really he has played the entire Drive thus far with two tight ends in the game which gives him some options as far as blocking those backers and yet they've still been able to get out on the past routes and make some plays three tight ends fears all kinds of dispersed formations here five wide three tight ends on the first drive doing a great job mixing it up and over the middle again pass this line is blocked the chain is complete he had green Ellis over the middle and it will be third down and nine well for Pittsburgh there's a few different looks in there as well of course if you've been following the Steelers you know that Aaron Smith and Brett Keisel two of their outstanding defensive players over the years out Nicky sands Iggy hood in there now so maybe a little better opportunity to run it than in the past against Pittsburgh Pittsburgh is not allowed touchdown there she's not only open [Music] [Applause] and the passion [Music] but Stan Rob Gronkowski 19 yards and what an opening drive for the New England Patriots Tom Brady on the drive 5 out of 6 for 52 yards and this touchdown it looks like a blitz over here but they back out just the three-man rush and a tight in working against the Nickelback on the outside William Gay and Gronkowski is making amends with what was a very poor game a week ago making big plays on that drive and come home to do it finish Hills High School and the extra point by the newly signed Jean Grae of is good opening drive from New England next to perfect another Pittsburgh PA on this mid-november Sunday night gronkowski last week a week to forget for him and tonight well a touchdown in the town of what you then to high school is senior year three caches on that and it's seven dilemma [Music] as he gets it out to the 37 yard line the roethlisberger in company back out down by 7 - really grating those tackles tonight you've got Casey Hampton for Pittsburgh and on the other side there is Vince Wilfork seven season there's Casey [Applause] what is the fraternity those tackles Wilfork said one day we're all gonna get together and go find the biggest pool say we can down at here's Mendenhall taking it out to the 39 yard line okay it's kind of interesting typically Wilfork plays right over the center here you can see he's a little bit in this gap right there and they were talking defensively after the way they got gouged a week ago by the Cleveland Browns they might do a few things with will Ford tonight to try and help those linebackers get covered up and allow them to run a little bit more seemed like the Browns were able to get up on jerod mayo in particular we could go there he is again Peyton Hillis had a phenomenal day and they rushed for over 200 yards total [Applause] the scariest his third year at a Tennessee number one draft choice in o8 in the backfield for the tackle well you see what happens here you go there to make the block and then you come off the backside and that's what they were talking about typically it's Brandon Spikes who ends up doing more blitzing he did a lot of it last week against Cleveland already we're seeing a different look this week with mayo now coming off the offset nose third and ten is the second drive for the Steelers are the three on out on the first more for usual and on third down he stays in the death in the office [Music] across the 50 to the 47 of New England well they had three wide receivers going the other way and the coverage just leaned that way and there was nobody left back side where Heath Miller who is really the go-to guy out here so many times when you look at these statistics and the numbers when they float a huge Miller almost off the chart he only seems to make a play first and 10 catching a few less balls this year perhaps keys to keeping them in the block more with a shuffling that's going on up front and that pass is out too far with a flag thrown Hines Ward intended receiver Carl Jeffers is the referee in this first time we'll have Carl check in tonight [Applause] holding number 79 offense 10-yard penalty first house the right guard Trey Essex [Applause] kind of one of the last healthy bodies out here along with marques Pouncy there we go right here take a look working against Mike right I believe I'm just sort of swung them to the ground once they grab the back of the shoulder pads [Music] halfway through the quarter now first down and 20 from the 42 yard line then protected at all in the past a little high and a little behind Wallace let's take a look at the New England defensive starters from various Boston College Vince Wilfork University of mine Brendan did Crimson Tide man Cunningham the University of Floyd Drive Mayo Tennessee Brenda spikes Florida Bob negative itch Purdue University Devlin McCrory Rockets Brandon Meriweather proud father Morgan Meredith Patchett son or Kyle Erikson Hofstra Matt Patricia they're listed as the linebackers coach balls in the defense's calls him into Jerrod Mayo there Berger will go to the ground and that's Gary Gaytan who earlier swatted down a pass getting Roethlisberger down and normally Benz about is easy to get to the ground as an apartment building there's Mayo gonna come from right here and he's really her Gary Guyton's going to come from right there and he's just in a read blitz situation he had the back he had Mendenhall but then he saw Mendenhall block he said okay fine I'll just go get me a sack he's really in coverage but the minute Mendenhall just sat there and looked like he was going to block there was no reason to cover him third and 13 now they have to get to the 38 yard line of the Patriots [Music] [Applause] Jeffers comes in and signals a sack at that point John Grable and Mike Wright had him in a vise and what a defensive series for the Patriots again well one of the things that the Patriots were talking about was when you get a shot at Ben you have to hit him and wrap him up a lot of Defense's make the mistake because he sticks that ball out there trying to go after the ball and he makes you miss they didn't want to do that they just wanted to hit him so on fourth and 37 Safavid his dick is fielded at the 26 there's a flag down Edelman will bring it back off to the 38 yard line and somebody got downfield too quickly [Applause] Chucky's with Belichick to see what he wants to do number 55 of the kicking team was an elderly downfield on the punch that 5-yard penalty will be added to the end of the return timeout Stephenson Sylvester Stalone up unique field that's on top by a touchdown when it comes to rebounds there are a few coaches like Belichick 603 New England 22 and school and games following the loss and last week they were beaten humiliating but beaten up pretty good by the Cleveland Browns is a no question of the Browns of the better team last Sunday [Applause] from the 42 brainy juggles the shotgun snap and is still able to get it away in his Deion Branch the once and current patron who comes back to the team after they get rid of Randy Moss and now they're going to try to go quickly thinking about the possibility that Pittsburgh would challenge the call so Brady got him up to the line take a look at this Tomlin has gotten the word from upstairs not the challenge to play with Danny Woodhead taking the ball to the 44 yard line and a flag on the other side of the field at the 36 yard line so totally away from the play for the penalty here Julian Edelman and Ike Taylor scrapping back there don't know if that's where the foul was there's no file for illegal substitution the players question was in the prior play second down for a pala model and sure we will hear from him before the night is done before too long in fact it's amazing Ori still a young guy this story with that fairies veteran defense Brandon Tate as the guy in motion second and five Bailey play-action wide open again beyond branch to the 26 yard line and then the ball comes loose at the end of the play and the question is was it down at the 25 yard line and again nano England's getting up to the line of scrimmage to make sure that there's no challenge here there's branch going down and the ball pops out after he's down when he succeeded rushing to the line the Patriots on first in town five minutes to play in the quarter [Applause] he fakes and then a screen is set up the Pittsburgh leaves that very nicely raynella's his tackle every makes the catch Woodley was there pretty good stuff on the outside by Lamar Woodley right here he's out there really getting blocked on the play it looked like he was going to be out of it managed to shed one shin then go underneath and make that one so he's outside linebackers they're going to be a force on every play razzle dazzle but that they ended for what your game second and nine and lady throws in that fast with branch lady's pen desiccant is incomplete third and nine Deion Branch was with New England wanted more money wound up signing with Seattle than they brought him back remember a few years ago and Brady had a whole bunch of receivers and there was really no number one guy in the middle of the decade we said to him one night hey who's who's the best who's your best guy and he said be on branch but now he's back and it stirred that [Applause] his pun lady gets it away welcome mates the cats and picks up a first down great he's been William gay finally forcing him out of bounds but they convert on third and nine anytime you have a five seven back in the backfield it's always a little bit risky but watch the Blitz pickup here this guy is a pretty amazing guy Danny Woodhead a very fast player but just like five foot seven and you look at him and you go there's no way he could block one of these Steelers linebackers and yet he's been [Applause] whether you look at that New England the running game person Maroney was the elite legal carrier last year they traded him to Denver week two kevin faulk was on injured reserve after the second week of the season and then you had as Dick LeBeau and his run defense right now which has been very very proficient has watched New England marched down the field Fred Taylor's been on the team of course this last year and then this season hurt his toe hasn't played in a long time so would head and green Ellis they've done the heavy weapon second down and eight waiting to his left to the titantron caste for they flag down I'm cast me for the moment comes close to picking up the first down but personal foul chop block number 42 15 repeat second down the running back green Ellis you know this is a hustle play matte light was trying to block down last second he tries to come back and make a block but then Jarvis green Ellis doesn't know that and so he's going to cut this linebacker that's what he does but once mass blight puts his hands on him you can no longer cut that backer and that's the reason for the penalty second and 23 [Applause] and the bailout to win it he started the season with the Jets takes it to the 23 yard line and Lamar Woodley is there for the tackle third down and 19 now it's always a guessing game and these two so good at it Tom Brady and Dick LeBeau going at it anytime you get backed up second down and 20 you're expecting a blitz out of Dick LeBeau just didn't get at that time but watch inside Wes Welker and 24 Malo those two guys welcome one of the best [Music] [Applause] bird the morrow and Bradys slipping away and moving ahead we'll take it down to the twelve to make it a lot easier for Graham to try to kick this field goal so the new unit coming in right here you've got a new place kicker you have a new snapper back to Tula you've got a rookie hole or result in Mexico even though the Tula and Graham have played together before but there it is it's the first game the three of them have played together here clearly gray in signed this week obviously he's new about a 31-yard field going one of the toughest places the kick field goals in the National Football League please and grams kick is good 103 remaining in the opening quarter no Angela's off to a hot start [Music] cruising down the Allegheny good guess recognize that that's the bridge that goes from downtown over to where the stadiums are but not the hill on the other side at the confluence of the Ohio five yard line Emmanuel Sanders good at the 31-yard line mind evan McCourty bending the boys down by ten late first mike tomlin often has a great description of things the other day he said you know what we're an emotional bunch the Patriots are a cerebral Bunch they'll wait for us to can quote their Flatliners so we thought we'd give you a little EKG matchup as you look at the two guys so far the Steelers have put the Flatliners out there they don't have anything to show for anything on offense so far in the first quarter MALDI to start this series a first down backyard [Applause] [Music] Gary Dyckman is there to make the tackle it was interesting talking to Ben Roethlisberger before this game he said I put on the tape of the Patriots and we're so used to playing against all those great players on the defense over there and he said my first thought was who are these guys he recognized a couple of them but not very many changing the tempo raucous burger goes without on second down and seven [Applause] [Music] maybe no-huddle but that Honda chases that snip play clock already down to five reward makes his vertebrae of the night a little slow to get up is the potential future hall-of-famer as the clock expires and that is the end of the [Music] they night before zooms after these [Music] now Michaelis Chris Collinsworth Andrew Kramer back in Pittsburgh and that's a sight no Steeler fan wants to see worn on the bench because of this head from Sanders coming in helmet to helmet yeah and then the question becomes was he still defenseless or had he caught it and turned up the field I don't think that he had quite turned and become a runner yet but he was awfully coming off the field we saw him take three or four missed steps trying to walk to the bench and he had help he needed an assistance there it is all the way to the bench wobble there and a couple of more as well on the way to the sidelines so we'll get a report as soon as we can obviously about a man who is as important to this offenses as anybody and New England meanwhile will not challenge the play at the end of the quarter as to whether Ward even caught the ball to make it would would be a third down and two so they're looking at this now is Karl Jefferies under the hood you watch the hit now the ball is going to come loose and did he make the catch to the half possession before he goes to the ground was he going to the ground in the process of making the catch if that were the case he would have to maintain possession all the way through there's definitely a little movement there I would say the ball is out if they consider that going to the ground in the process of the catch that's probably the decision that has to be made and the only one really check out war shaking his leg on the sidelines I'll tell you what the Patriots came out smoking tonight anything more I would say that he was going to the ground in the process of making that catch and then it looked like the ball did hit the ground I would say probably incomplete the ball is coming out as he's going to the ground I had a guess here I would say they're gonna say this is not a catch when I tell you there's it's always dangerous anytime a Bill Belichick coach team lays the way they did a week ago in Cleveland that one was not good from any category offensively defensively it was they got physically handled in that one they have come out ready to play here tonight the knees down but if he's going to the ground in the process of the catch it wouldn't matter that the knee was down you would have to maintain control all the way throughout that catch close enough that Jeffers is taking about as long a look as his legal right now it would be it's either gonna be thirty two if it's a completed pass or third and seven so it's a 5-yard differential dr. Joseph maroon is the Stila neurologist that is dr. maroon who's checking out Ward one of the very best and foremost authorities and if I'm not mistaken I think he's doing the surgery on Mac starts here as well [Music] here comes Jeffries finally it's a long review after review during the process of the catch the receiver did lose possession of the ball the ball hit the ground it is an incomplete pass it'll be third down one in 34 yard line with ten seconds left in the first quarter New England will not be charged with a timeout insult to injury [Applause] so we go back in time but Pittsburgh's gonna let the clock run out and they'll start the second quarter with a third down and seven or we're gonna come we're gonna come back and let's see if they want to run a play here [Applause] from their own 34 yard line [Applause] the third and seven and actually with an incomplete pass that's gonna stop the clocks we puts the ten seconds back on the clock and they will have to run a play here [Applause] no for ben roethlisberger the protection has been okay on the left side where the substitutions have been really the guy that's been struggling so far tonight has been tray assets [Music] with the feelers at four seasons in the Washington Ward's Potter's rock at the 41 close to a first down as Mike Wallace Patrick Chung makes the tackle that will end the world's quarter with the sport tend to nothing New England what a shot [Music] that patriot defense and we talked about them at the beginning of the telecast and they played a very good first quarter defenders to start all mine games just those three the veterans will fork in Mayo and then the rookie McCourty time for the Falcons for the fewest starters in every game this season 25 and a half Bella checks youngest defense in his 16 seasons as a head coach that would be five in Cleveland in the early 90s and now since 2000 in New England quick they update on Heinz word let's go to Andrea well Al after team neurologist dr. Joseph maroon examined Heinz word there was a lot of discussion amongst the other doctors in the trainer the Steelers are calling it a neck injury his return is questionable and they will continue to evaluate I Thank You Andrea if it was deemed a concussion he'd have to sit out [Applause] first exam the ball is at the 41 we handed the first quarter with amazement as we went to commercial them they just was picked up the first down [Music] to the 44-yard line that's a gain of three one of the things that the Steelers were a little concerned about was the fact that they thought that New England might pick up on the fact that they were running right a lot they really have been running behind flow Zell Adams and Trey Essex and we've begun to see New England's defense now over shift that way just a bit to try and take second down and seven [Applause] spot receiver set busted put on by male announcer the pass is and we were mates to catch the he'll be less for the yards shy of a first down third and one rod Mayo coming on the Blitz that time and he may have gotten away with one this was pretty close to a late hit that balls out and he still delivered a pretty good blow so tell you the Patriots tonight have come out hitting this has been a very physical game so far they've taken it to the street busting his way through the middle and picking up the first half is more welding it was so strange watching the game last week where the Pittsburgh Steelers [Applause] we're out there and and just sort of having their way with the Cincinnati Bengals running the football there the week before they really had struggled to run the ball but then Rashard Mendenhall just the game mattered most and he's really begun to show something he's a little bit of a shoulder injury lately they're trying to reduce his carry so we're seeing the wild tonight theaters again though for a manual Devin McCourty a rookie on the rookie Sanders why I tell you they love this Devin McCourty they said from the first day that he showed up that he just had it he who played like a veteran he studied like a veteran they just couldn't believe how polished he was the minute he walked in he was like one of their old screwed veterans than they've had on this team forever they think he is long-term Pro Bowler on the outside second and ten from the 45 [Music] guns that for Sanders and that isn't complete before t again on the coverage third down and ten well they're trying to pick on that left side of the offensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers but at least so far they've been up to the call Jonathan Scott Ramone foster those guys over there filling in for Mac Starks and Chris came a lot to have been doing a nice job they've run probably three or four different looking blitzes that way and they've had the answer there's those two guys is quinoa to them right there get the two guys the two new guys Annamarie Center [Applause] Cassie third and ten he's going to go down again and that's three sacks and that's Tully back to the play [Applause] well I put the kibosh on him there al as soon as I brought it up they bring their best pass rusher off the edge a little spin move and got right after Ben Roethlisberger's you've gotta wonder if that may get inside the head of Roethlisberger a little bit you know you're already questioning that backside that blindside then he did hit on that one Sepulveda had to reach for the snap takes a nice bounce for New England there's a box into the end zone and Brady will get to start from the 20-yard line [Music] the first half nothing they true [Music] opening drive for Dylan next the perfect this is Sunday night [Music] opening drive touchdown they enter the field goal they have the ball now doing those first two drives a place 70 hours in the and a field door Gradius 10 out of 12 403 [Applause] [Music] that's bought by Deion Branch for gain of nine well if you're a young quarterback I don't know of anybody that has the mechanics that Tom Brady has it's almost flawless straight over the top he touched that left elbow in rips that left hip around to get the power out of it the footwork you can seem really not much of a step at all he's just able to pivot those hips and get it out and more often than not it kind of looks like this small windows in there [Music] [Applause] [Music] look at that time after [Music] Welker in the Pittsburgh territory and almost everything Welker is caught this season has been underneath the spot of his reception is about three and a half yards per catch on average and this time he gets well downfield and picks up the first down on the 26 yard game now that average just went up doesn't it what and that was great protection that time on the part of this offensive line the Steelers choosing to go with a three-man rush there and Brady said fine I'm just gonna wait for my guy to get down [Applause] the prices way for a first-time when you think about Lange season Welker ended his year in Houston on the last day of the season tearing his ACL and his MCL and that was one of those things that was so bad at first you thought it was a career ender didn't even miss a game yeah it turned out and even without Randy Moss there are a lot of questions if Randy Moss went away with West Walter's numbers go away and they diminished a little bit let's just be perfectly frank about that [Applause] [Music] [Applause] their fathers such casually silky [Music] [Applause] Brian McFadden was able to get back there and brand and take the speedster the second-year guy into North Carolina has run a couple of kicks back for touchdowns this season the intended receiver you see this out of the Patriots when they want to take a shot down the field they love this fake reverse action because it takes the outside linebacker and shifts them out the pass rush isn't there and they'll try to take their shot down the field there that's their answer now for Randy Moss being gone trying to get taped down in behind the secondary sixteen of the 21 grays and advances and you got a flag call here before the snap [Applause] and the stuff on the near side in front of the Pittsburgh bench [Applause] false start number 83 offense five-yard penalty second down Walker ending the play [Applause] today this one's gone pretty much according to script so far for Bill Belichick I'm sure he wanted to come out here and establish that they could throw the ball really have had that one good run but that's basically been it thus not as in Pittsburgh didn't know it - you just look at the history we talked about at the top of the show a few years ago Brady threw 29 consecutive passes in a game against Pittsburgh and in another game earlier - 25 consecutive finishes that [Music] second and 15 baked inside given in a pass is [Applause] [Music] another rookie tie then that a florid I say another because Gronkowski has already scored a touchdown tonight you've got algae problems so they are well stocked at that position and the guy who caught a touchdown pass in Cleveland last week incomplete close to being behind the line of scrimmage we've got a pretty good mark there with that line and I do think it went forward barely so he's not fifteen two steps forward so he gets him out of that car as this was for baby [Music] [Applause] and her name is both in the same neighborhood with them when we talked about the last time we did the Steelers but this Lawrence Timmons has really begun to show he is maybe the best complete linebacker watch this coverage here against Hernandez and just knocks that thing out of there in the last second his ability to blitz to play the run and to get down the field covered in rain him awfully tough zorkin destroyed rookie the bosses of the five and cannot be saved before it gets into the end zone miss Burkle when we come back ten and a half to the hand [Music] the Pittsburgh offense eighteen plays eighteen yards Roethlisberger has three computers sack three times as many sacks as completions it's tend another thing as they start to strike they say that's a seven-yard game tackle there by Patrick Chung and now if the Pittsburgh Steelers are not going to be able to run the football and they have not yet they're in big trouble this is a slow footed offensive line so if you're going to allow the New England Patriots to know you've got to drop back and throw the football they're not really equipped to do this they're supposed to run the football go play-action let Ben Roethlisberger move around a little bit this game is playing out which way so far as the students have he's gonna get stopped two yards on first down think of it outside linebacker makes to stop we're so used to seeing this Patriots defense with so many great players you know Richard Seymour and Jarvis green and tie worn on the outside and now they've got some new defensive ends in their brand new outside linebackers or rookie Jermaine Cunningham Rob ninka over there so if you're going to get to this Patriots team you better get to them early because you've got to believe under Belichick they're going to get better and better as soon as it goes along there that 16 to 24 years when Isaac Redmond fits into the game now in the backfield he like had a concussion last week check this week walkest we're gonna step it up he's gonna run and picks up a first down [Applause] Steelers looking for a spark on offense and that may have been the sport yeah really was and watch marques Pouncy here right in the middle stay with this gun move his feet get him the end off and then Roethlisberger's he's done so many times in his career jump-starting this offense they needed to play and he just gave him one thirty-six minutes [Applause] Spike's working out of Florida drafted in the second round and you know the Patriots love the stockpile of draft choices look how much space here Vince Wilfork has as the nose tackle he almost plays like a third linebacker in there's very hard to get movement on him that time you do at the end of the play but he did his job his responsibility is the gap on either side in the center he allowed his linebackers to fill that's what he has to do you do the dirty work that's it [Applause] good move by Mendenhall [Applause] live the third mission [Music] Devin McCourty had him and then he did well there came a blintz off the corner and it didn't get there there was a great block and I couldn't see who that was on the outside but the quarter basically had contained and when the block was had on the cordilla on the outside it enabled Mendenhall to do this we put a lateral step that was not too bad afterwards either dirty out by Heath Miller down the field too yards avoids a fourth sack [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and it's everything that Roethlisberger does he keeps extending the play year after year and of course the receivers keep moving around and trying to get breathe vintage Ben Roethlisberger here think a has him dead Roethlisberger makes a Miss finds his man Heath Miller and it's the one thing that Bill Belichick was concerned about is the ability of these receivers during these scramble drills to find the holes Ian Hines Ward may play after play down the field they are just so good at that [Applause] to the age you know if there were a couple of things that Roethlisberger really excels that one is play action the other is outside the pocket so that was perfect right there he doesn't use play action all that much but when he does he's tremendous there's there are the numbers in the pocket as you well know play action only works when you get your running game going that time they got Mendenhall going did a couple runs and all of a sudden this offense starts to open up now they're starting to look like the Steelers ago [Applause] second down and seven [Applause] [Music] please Wallace couldn't hang on to it hits the ground in the endzone [Applause] while I was trying to sell the case tomlin looking there's a challenge on the replay I doubted it was Mike Wallace and remember this is when Hines Ward is so viably so good down here making these tough catches perfectly thrown football and Mike Wallace just cannot hang on to it ball coming out never had control very whether an Arrington third down [Applause] third and seven at the 8-yard line and what this burger will take a timeout here and another Patriots [Music] watching Hines Ward here in the past few minutes it looks like he's been lobbying to trying to get back into the game they called it a neck injury no further update there's Wallace and that becomes their number one guy in Awards absence has just barely missed a touchdown on the last play couldn't employ as that went to the ground in the end [Applause] [Music] [Applause] after the Pittsburgh cut [Music] but the flag is all the way on the other side of the field away from the action at the 9 yard line offside number 96 defense the rookies remain Cunningham [Music] here's Jermaine Cunningham and you can see his hand right there across that red line which is the line of scrimmage that's a tough break for a rookie right there and afford to give the Pittsburgh steel there's too many opportunities on third down after distance takes the ball leave for yard line third and three Randall L top of the screen Miller comes in the bottom [Music] for Antwon Randall L Patrick shunt with a coverage on the place of been sliding to his left and they'll have to settle for a read at field goal attempt say what Patrick Chung is having a pretty good game so far here in Randall L this is drop number two Ben Roethlisberger did his job chart may have gotten a little bit of the jersey right there but the catch was just missed two great opportunities for the Steelers and two drops 22 yards field goal for Jeffery [Music] and Pittsburgh gets its first points of the night with 508 to go in New England 10 Pittsburgh Bill Belichick coke Cinnabon they coaches that defense hard as it is so many young players over there and it's just been nobody's called it a rebuilding process but in any other organization that's exactly what it is you start for rookies that's rebuilding or we trillion sounds less insidious breeds kick off the tape [Applause] to kickoff returns to Toscana season along the sidelines after a short run back Sunday Night Football being brought to you by citizen field by light it never needs a battery unstoppable upon B&W the ultimate driving machine by DIRECTV if you call yourself a sports fan you got to get DIRECTV by Sprint the now network so um by weekend for the Steelers here in it's pretty much like in Green Bay bringing the guys back the guys love coming back so I walk before the game by the way sends his best to you then a 23-yard by Danny Woodhead Woodhead the burro his way for a first now but he's a little bit short Tom Brady has barely been touched tonight not barely and there's the difference that's really been the difference in the ball game does work where's Roethlisberger can we all know he can escape and make plays and do all those things but you have those zero goose eggs for Tom Brady you're in trouble even without Randy boss and the uniform will reflect it Christine waiting that returns around started to run upfield before he was able to grasp it second down yeah wes welker he remembers one Ryan Clark from a few years back it was Ryan Clark who almost decapitated him on one this time Walker just took his eyes off the ball for a moment and we are seeing the Pittsburgh Steelers working hard on not that it didn't hit the helmet they have been dropping shoulders and second and ten he goes that one to the right side and Wilker again makes the catch this time at the 39 yard line and of course our guys in the truck after this one got Wes Welker remember this one I don't even have to say a word [Music] [Applause] every kids grow up the place [Applause] [Music] the yard or so short of the first down yeah that's a rare time that I've seen Danny Woodhead do one dance too many I thought he had a chance that stick that one in there he is such a physical runner for a little guy he typically gains that final yard or two that he needs we tried to little jump cut and God [Applause] anger expressed by Grady after the play let's go to punter six yard line it takes it back out to the 18 yard line see Brady after the play somebody didn't do what he was supposed to do or he wasn't happy with the play call you end up with a third and three and Tom Brady's thinks he should be the one making the play not the running back [Applause] eleven years in the league you'd think he's still into it you know what he was telling us last night then I think he's just saying there you have to be perfect on every play against this team you make cannot beat the Pittsburgh Steelers [Applause] no LD lure 3-yard game accordi making the stop I tell you the one guy that I didn't know that much about I know a lot about Tom Brady and Wes Welker but Patrick Chung has really been a physical presence on the field tonight for the Patriots he's been out a couple of weeks for the knee injury but just his physical presence on the boots given host reasoning that Monday night game at Miami six let's go more across the 25 yard line and you get a full start coming up here that was bad again yeah coming all the way across the backside there to make that tackle illegal formation offense number 72 was not on the line of scrimmage leaving only six men on the line of scrimmage five-yard penalty repeat second down Jonathan Scott now all the way up here you're going to see Patrick Chong chase this thing down this is about a 50-yard rent the backside and that's what we're used to seeing Paulo Malo do and that will take us to the two-minute warning before they get the playoff will be second down and 12 on the other side of the brain two minutes to the half with the Patriots up by seven second in 12 all of the 16-yard line [Music] [Applause] [Music] looking back and losing his balance covered by Sergio Brown it'll be third and 12 well Antwaan Randle there they're gonna take a shot and really this is not a bad play here because the one thing you're concerned about now is don't give up an interception if that ball is thrown out a little bit farther in front might had a chance and on the backside Ramon foster made a real saving block on the outside he saw that safety blitz coming and protected his quarterback Ben was about to take a huge hit Cantrell [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's take for Heathrow contacted as he is so often was still getting the pass away it's fourth in 12 and the Patriots might wind up a pretty good field position after this punt Holly bantha Kane is getting close he's getting underneath Jonathan Scott and Ben was just too big to get him down I tell you the one thing that the Patriots worked on in practice the other day was sticking with these receivers they're anticipating that Ben's gonna make people best back the ball that he's kick Edelman back to receive it and he will fall for the fair catch and then let's bounce and it takes a sideways bounce and the flag is thrown at the 44 yard one the official with no hat on means that somebody stepped out of bounds and was the first to touch it is my guess number 23 of the kicking team won out-of-bounds came back inbounds and was the first to touch the kick that's illegal touching on the kicking team fighting guard penalty will be assessed at the end of the return first down New England exactly that's Keenan Lewis moving the ball of the 49 yard line beautiful shots of downtown Pittsburgh aerial coverage tonight being brought to you by Geico now the Patriots with a full complement of timeouts [Applause] [Music] makes his presence known to one Daniel would head well that time Timmons was on the end of the line of scrimmage and then moved back and I think the Patriots offensive line just missed him Logan Mankins who just returned to the team ran high bio second and nine [Applause] it's bought by branch before he steps out of bounds for a first down well I tell you what Tom Brady took a shot on his knee that time from James Harrison that was a little scary looking inside move and watch this right on his knee and that looked all too familiar for a moment right shot he took on opening day in 2008 city chiefs [Music] through the hands of Brandon take right there put in collected second attention well if you want to give a guy a tough assignment watch Danny Woodhead about 200 pounds of him working on the outside against James Harrison tough duty nothing like getting whacked by Simmons and having a block ii attend and that's what my branch and branch will step out of bounds pot will stop a deep 33 yard line I talked to Dick LeBeau about the no Randy Moss factor and he said Chris I'd be lying to you if I said it wasn't a different defensive game playing with that guy out of there one of the best deep threats ever you can see this detail [Music] five of 61 seconds to a hand [Applause] we pocket again [Applause] is covered on the play so I pull a model that time came in on the Blitz man coverage underneath that then pull Apollo just anticipates it he sees Brady looking this way he really just is going to jump that round and if the ball had been thrown a little bit better you never know oh mama might have had that one and then he was butchered welcome Bellatrix is called a timeout before a 4th down and 6 with the ball at the 33-yard line so if you want to kick a field goal here you're talking about Graham just join the team about 52 yards yeah that's a big trust factor what did you say right there we watched shame kicking in practice the other day and if he hit it pure he could definitely make this kick he does tend to miss a little bit he has a push shot and he has a pool shot but when he hits the ball on the pipe it goes straight down the middle and he could make it from here but you'd also be leaving a lot of room for the Steelers to go the other way [Applause] enough to go through [Applause] the flag is gone as Glock cows be the squirt the only touchdown in the game makes the catch pass interference number 87 offense is able to get free because he pushed off now working against Timmins down the field and grunt ow ski you'll see the arms extend here on the end of this play just not going to be allowed to do that remember there is an official watching every single eligible receiver out there and in this league you don't get away with that one and now they'll punt with 49 seconds sold in Mexico in this country from eleven years old in Michigan and was drafted in the fifth round by the Patriots last [Music] bought at the 40-yard line forty-two seconds remaining in two timeouts for Pittsburgh yeah a little bit of an interesting decision here to make now do you crank up your offense and try and do something with it from your own 14 or area okay going in down ten to three tell you the only issue that you probably have at this point is do you trust this offensive line enough to drop back and throw the ball and you're doing it with AB Hines Ward who suffered what the Steelers are saying was a neck injury on the home with the helmet hit in the first quarter and has not been back to the game six [Applause] to open a series like the [Applause] straight back and flip it over the middle under let's go find the old more and gets it up to the 27 yard line and then getting up there whose gang now Ben was gonna spike it to kill the clock but Mike Talman said second time out Costin is too much time we're gonna take a timeout right there [Applause] for Ben Roethlisberger it has been at night like he's experienced before he has been under pressure pretty much throughout the course of the entire they do such a great job with them of allowing him his pump fakes he can escape but tonight the New England Patriots doing nothing fancy when they get to him they're not trying to strip the ball they're wrapping him up and getting him on the ground and that's the mistake a lot of teams make against Roethlisberger his numbers six and a 16 the 61 yards left foot this correct [Applause] [Music] but he's there he has to throw it into the bench second down with 20 seconds remaining [Applause] mic writes really had a pretty good game so far that time he's working against a star young center right there Marquis Pouncy and his speed and quickness he is the leading sacker on this Patriots team with four sacks that time they trusted pouncing up to just handle them one-on-one but just the pressure straight back into Roethlisberger forced him out of the pocket second intern [Applause] little more [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] down the sideline that's all well and good but it took a lot of time off the clock and they're down to eight seconds [Applause] Jonathan Scott may have gotten away with a hold on that one on the backside against Tully Banta cane but didn't see it Jonathan Scott see at the tail into this play if he doesn't do a little yank down on that they'll call Pittsburgh so as a timeout so they can use field and pulleys very fast time out as they try to work into fields in New England and the Patriots take a timeout here well for Jeff Reid he's been awfully good inside of 40 yards this year but it's been 40 and beyond that has been as struggling did have a 53 yarder I believe his 53 yards last week against the Bengals but also missed one in that same range that could have clinched the game at the end and gave the Cincinnati Bengals one final shot down the field and a break tonight in a place which is notoriously tough for field goal kickers with a softer field and the wind normally coming in from the open end of the stadium off the Ohio River it's the breeze tonight in the field in good shape [Music] read just 2 for 8 from 40 plus 12 for 12 inside of 40 yards [Applause] first now one play [Applause] a possible field goal attempt once through receivers to the right this is taking a lot of time and it's incomplete and it takes seven of the eight seconds off the clock yeah I was a little surprised at his choice there they had some opportunities just to get something right in the middle of the field that you talked about call the timeout the Patriots were way back I mean they were in total prevent there there was an opening right in the middle of the field but been just unable to find him on the backside now everybody's gonna be standing back around the end zone but there was a big gap in there a second timeout at Pittsburgh will take its final timeout so now they can do anything but you're right I mean in a situation you have eight seconds you know maybe you just throw it over the middle the guy gives himself up you take the timeout of that at that point then you send Reid into the game now it's Hail Mary time well and we get been a lot of credit for his ability to scramble and make plays but that was a time for an on-time throw you know you beat Joe Montana there drop back five steps boom get it in there have your receiver get to the ground and call a timeout and I think they'd add a field goal for a decent shot at one instead one play barring a defensive foul from the 45 yard line and not a lot of really tall receivers on this steelers football team so in the back a tight end is gonna take his job the 21-year we're looking at a Florida eight [Music] a lot of traffic down there and it's incomplete and a Fernandez gets into the middle of the action so a very good defensive first half work though Eiland they leave by a score of ten to three at the half so at a halftime show coming up next after these messages from your local NBC station Al Michaels Cris Collinsworth Andrew Kramer Heinz Field in Pittsburgh let's go to Andrea well Al Bill Belichick very pleased with the play of his offensive line Tom Brady not touched in the first half but Ben Roethlisberger was sacked three times my Tomlin said it's not a matter of better protecting he's throwing so many foot passes they have to tackle the receiver now as for getting to Tom Brady excuse me as for protecting Roethlisberger he said it's just a matter of getting the ball out quicker for Ben also Mike Tomlin sent still evaluating Hines Ward although he is out here on the field all right Thank You Andrea of course they said that it was a neck injury to ward I mentioned earlier if it's a concussion he can't come back to the game before we got neck injuries which means he could come back into the game but he's not back into the game then passing Vincent's just that point Chris will you make of it that over you making makeup at the same thing I make of it yeah neck injury no I can cause it right [Applause] [Music] getting the ball after they deferred by winning the coin toss and here it is the numbers through the first half and again that run-pass ratio there it is for the New England Patriots through the years we've talked about it going into the game since Belichick has been in New England when they've met it's normally been about three quarters passing in a quarter running and tonight a little bit more than that even I tell you what it's been about for me it's been about a New England Patriots defense that is bounced back from last week meanwhile there's a manual santa see you've got Ward who hasn't been back into the game did see some significant playing time since rewarded and he comes out the special teams diet well his salary so he hobbles over the benches in the 22 yard line boy action pass is bought by green Ellis for a gain of seven yards well the protection has been the other store [Applause] Tom Brady back there getting this kind of time and able to work down the field you're going to have problems defensively even if you're as good as the Pittsburgh Steelers are they really are just playing a lot of zones they're playing dropping back underneath and that one shot they're too drunk I'll ski it's the difference in the game that one touchdown are it's a 3 3 game we picked up the first down and was maybe on his way to the races so a pass to him on a run by him and a first down for New England well it's so good to have Logan Mankins back in the lineup of course the holdout he'd been out just this past week was the first time that he was able to get back in the starting lineup and he is their power guy probably the best lineman up front plays they call his number being the couple in the two second and eight and really Bill Belichick came right back to what worked so well on those first couple of drives he has two tight ends and he has two wide receivers and then Jarvis Green Ellis oh he's going back to the formula that worked to start this game just fun to say that they Lizbeth conserve the screen others [Music] [Applause] so don't watch Kasana a player that's what if it's a law firm in the 44 yard line picks up the first down several more yards to the 39 that time Lamar Woodley was crashing down inside I don't know if he's anticipating run or not but it left a huge lane on the outside as he comes here then Jarvis green Ellis is going there and there's nobody out there Troy Polamalu had turned and run with the outside receiver Wes Welker and it left a lot of space the analysis out that could sandy Morris [Applause] and Sammy number three on the depth chart behind green Ellison would head picks up a couple Harrison making the stop in the first half Pittsburgh Steelers allowing 211 yards second most since Tomlin took over as the head coach and Mike now in his fourth season [Applause] second date [Applause] position on mix patent who forces them out of bounds but not until he reaches the 25-yard line for gain of 13 well Brady has a way of finding the man coverage on the outside and you're gonna see McFadden at the top here gonna take that inside technique and if the Pittsburgh Steelers give you anything it is this throw if you're willing to throw comebacks on the outside they're gonna take their chances with that they bought the Blitz that time with William Gay that met man coverage Brady saw it right away and made a big gainer [Applause] raynella's puts his head down and gets the ball to the 23 yard line where he's tackled by Chris Koch it was interesting talking to Troy Polamalu here's a guy that was so used to being able to sort of maneuver around and be the wild card in the defense and he said that's really not my job anymore Lawrence Timmons now has that role he's an athletic guy he can make plays he can play in the passing game he can blitz and so it's a little more structured now for Kayla Morgan [Applause] you could use everybody [Applause] second date [Applause] out of the set first down the Patriots had a brilliant opening drive in the first half and are on their way to another one to open the second half well that time Brian McFadden had him in man coverage coming across here and just never got there Wes Welker came in motion across the field McFadden had man coverage and was nowhere close to being able to make that play [Applause] [Music] first and goal most of the boy Green Ellis runs into Brady that's the most contact Brady has had to fight one day no one you know Hampton then came in and hit Brady after Brady runs into his running back LG Crumpler is coming down on this tackle trap or tight in trap that they love to run and that was going to be there and it was not the prettiest thing in the world doesn't look like hitting a few weeks ago for the Dallas Cowboys down on the goal line winning in the Marion Barber we got slipped by the guard as he did today by the centric second the goal in one of cruft war is the fullback take the green Ellis pass to the outside is caught by Gronkowski for his second touchdown toss tonight [Applause] well William Gay is just going to get caught and fooled by the play-action he's in man coverage right back here and as soon as Gronkowski blocks he steps up thinking run and then just there's no way he could get out there so those little throws in the flat three times in a row burn the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Steelers worked really bad defensively that drive a lot of mistakes I think some great play calling tonight by the by the Patriots as well extra point is good by Shane gran with 948 to go in the third the New England Patriots are on top 17 to 3 [Music] I used to hear Marino talking about look at that head of hair yes sir buddies these charts about central gathered all that done it all of course you know the rest of the story after his attack of the college to Miami [Music] at the 29 tackled by Devin McCourty right there so I'll fill battle right now for Roethlisberger down by 14 hines ward doing everything to try to get back into the game neck injury the first quarter had what would have been a catch overturn his streak at 186 consecutive games of the bigger fish to fry for the theaters as mendenhall it's taken out along the sideline by ninka vyx and let's go back to see how hines ward had to come out of the game initially it didn't look so much but now you can see why the NFL legislates so hard against that helmet-to-helmet contact even a hit that initially you didn't even see the helmet-to-helmet knocks a player like Hines Ward out of the game but his James Sanders on the hips [Applause] they're trying to convince the medical staff to [Applause] second down and seven [Applause] but that was a family design nicely designed that's Mike Wright who comes in there one of the problems when you run a little sneaky play like that is when you've got a little sneaky defensive lineman gonna come back and he just abuses tre ethics on to play and that's not the first time tonight I've seen that two or three times on the evening and a good play his quickness inside is making a difference against this slow offensive line of Pittsburgh steel [Applause] third at 11:00 and he's better be in the grasp and that will be a full sack over off this burger tonight they still can't get him down but Cheverus comes in in the grass crowd boos Mike Wright is in there to at least get a part of the sack yeah watch Vince Wilfork come in and then you're going to get Mike right around you talk about Wilfred doing the dirty work here is that you he takes to Ramon foster unable to get off and yet again Ben goes down this has been an impressive show tonight by this Patriots defense suppose enough the sport for made by Edelman who has a little bit of contact the officials he was ready to go and pull out the flag but he did not good Thank You Stadium contend [Applause] [Music] swatted away he gets the pass out to Crumpler [Applause] and you'll see the call here number 72 office [Applause] there was mad life he got his arm up around the head area and just hooked him a little bit you'll see him his Harrison can do he's slowly low to the ground and has such a low center of gravity a lot of those taller offensive tackles this can't slow him down and I'll tell you Harrison I know his back [Music] looks like he may be loosening out here [Applause] first in 20 [Applause] [Music] double screen had no fizz Welker makes the catch Mike Tomlin talked about the Flatliners on the Patriots that would not apply to this guy he was fired up when they missed the third down opportunity and he gave it all up we did a little lip-reading it wasn't there wasn't and fuzzier flatlining over there [Applause] [Music] [Applause] cerebral guys against emotion the lady is both and that pass is incomplete I wasn't talking to Tom a little bit about in his wife Gisele basically asked him one day why do you want to keep playing this game you know they're out there beating you up every single week and he said this is just what I love I said this is just my passion I don't even know what I would do if I didn't play football and you saw a little bit of Jim existing linking ask the Siri longtime suitor with the [Applause] number 50 in his spot 1323 ladies passes incomplete welker covered by William Gay and in comes the punting unit on 4th and 23 and now I think that's probably the biggest difference that I see with this Patriots offense without Randy Moss teams much more willing to play man coverage against them now because they're not worried about that jump ball throw down the field to Moss and they're getting these guys covered underneath zoltan mess go 22 the looking sailors back 333 guard lines in speedos can generate something down by 14 big bird Patriots and Steelers since the turn of the century that's winning those three Super Bowls and the Steelers winning a pair radian roethlisberger ranking what winning percentage Patriots won two AFC championships right here but the Steelers snap that 21 game win streak that included postseason in 2004 so steady and solid through the years Robert Murphy has owned the team since 94 and of course the Rooney family there's going to the second the president will own the team forever Dan Roden now the US ambassador to Ireland not here tonight and says he always wants you to ban milk and cookies too yet what a quarter to four in the morning what a stability gets you and the free agent error take a look at that Patriots Steelers Packers you know they have a formula and it works they stick to it even Mike Tomlin coming in you know they had always had that defensive minded head coach they surprised a lot of people and of course with Bill Belichick and the Patriots there's no guesswork at it they have a system they stick to it they don't overpay for players they're willing to let guys go when it's time now akamai McCourty they're getting back to Steeler football a little bit now they're going to bring foster around this the little power oh that they love to run inside and this is really what they have to do I think they've proven tonight that they're going to struggle and pass protection so if that's the case get back to a little Steeler football that's counted in there his burger swings it Wallace makes the catch him and check tonight certainly not letting him go deep where he specializes in the long completion average catch for Wallace this season has been 19 yards the point of reception from the line of scrimmage yeah and I asked Bill Belichick do you have anything special that you have to do for Mike Wallace and he looked at me he said what are you stupid they added a little adverb in there he said of course the guys that fastest player in the league and we definitely have to cover him and watch him a little more closely was the adjective blatantly [Applause] let's say you can see the stamp now of Bill Belichick sometimes it happens especially with young team they had won so many games in a row and started thinking that they were really something and then the Cleveland Browns stomped on them you know Peyton Hillis 184 yards rushing 230 yards rushing as a team and I think it gave Belichick a little opening to do some coaching this week and maybe the Patriots defensive players finally started listening [Applause] at the 46-yard on [Applause] going deep into double coverage with Merriweather back there in the quarry as well [Applause] and the two deep officials each throwing a flag well this is what you do when you got a guy like this and Merriwether just got there too soon and now you get the kind of things going that that you need they needed a break this was an offense that had become stagnant they've got some runs working early in this Drive and it opened up a little play-action passing down the field 38 yard penalty [Applause] the Pittsburgh [Applause] a spin to nowhere McCourty comes up from the corner to seal it second down and goal now there aren't many young quarterbacks in the league that understand the defense as well as Devin McCourty and he just locked down that edge that time played it perfectly they've been much more disciplined tonight on their gap discipline on their setting the edge on the outside they didn't make the mistakes the glaring mistakes that they made a week ago in Cleveland second goal five new defenders this point [Applause] [Applause] [Music] Miller could not one-handed covered thereby Dighton setting up a third down and goal say hey Gary Gaytan has had one nice game tonight in past coverage he is right here and this is about the third play in a key situation that he's been able to make he stays inside Miller gets on top of him he cuts back underneath just able to make the play night beginning forgotten by swatting down again [Applause] the protection and that base is incomplete and Sanders with the round through late covered by Arrington and Vince's what are you doing yeah what are you doing is right because that was a blitz read somebody had to break it off and where are you high nines Ward is the guy that ordinarily is responsible my guess is that he was supposed to come underneath this pick right here he missed either an audible or a hot read and Hines Ward's absence has come up huge inside the 10-yard line they have completely blown their opportunities to scored out here 26 yard attack now for Jeff Reed [Music] and really if that is with a shake of the head corazon cascade of booze 17 to 3 it remains [Music] and cooking not too appealing on Jeff Reed what was home percentage in the NFL and the regular kickers and he's just 26 yarder to keep it a 14-point game and give New England the ball the 20-yard line [Applause] back to the missed field goal we go and you have a sandwich that will do this from time to time yeah you and I may not be experts on much but hitting a fat wedge that's exactly what happened you can see his cleats dragging a good six inches behind the ball there and it just never got anything on it that ball probably wouldn't have traveled 25 or 30 yards and he hit the sweet spot his first Miss from Washington 40 this season such a bad fan [Applause] look at that time third graders what right over the middle dictator intake tackle finally the 35-yard line it's a gain of 45 yards well that time the Steelers got caught coming up with Troy Polamalu and Polamalu thought it was a run they sneaked in Kate and behind him and that was the difference if you can just sell that run fake and I tell you Tom Brady has been tough on that one tonight 280 yards through the air for Brady tonight you've got a false start here false start number 87 offense five-yard penalty first down go back to that last play and take a look at Troy Polamalu he's clearly guessing run sneaking down in here and then his like whoops there goes you see him sneak a peek on the backside and no safety in the middle got to keep up with that guy [Applause] protection is just over the middle 23 yard line one of the things that has happened tonight is they basically have these great pass rushers going backwards James Harrison and has just been dropping into coverage as much as anything else there's Harrison dropping back and all of a sudden number 92 at 240 pounds in a space of about 20 yards not nearly as intimidating as he is coming in chasing Tom Brady and that's a gain of seven yards before he's tackled by Ike Taylor I tell you what Gronkowski has had a much better night tonight than what he has and one of them it's really easy to get hypnotized a little bit by Aaron Hernandez the other tight end that was drafted this year as well he's a much better receiver really fluid athlete that Gronkowski tonight has made the plays receiving and blocking on that one lady coming [Music] [Applause] thirty-six pictures tonight second insurer we nemesis and make a push down and go behind a a block by algae Crumpler you're seeing it tonight al it's exactly right algae Crumpler right there and it's amazing that he's been able to make this sort of transformation or receiving tight-end for most of his career and this year when I put on the tape of last week's game and watched him block for the last couple weeks I was just blown away and so was Bella check ball check made him a captain because of that role and the unbranched is out of bounds McFadden hustling him out at the 4 yard line second and goal in the final minute now of the third quarter yeah and there was no doubt that Tom Brady wanted to start getting the ball back in the hands of the guys he considered to be his stars Wes Welker and Deion Branch he thought he got away from that a little bit over the last few weeks we said you know what when we have a bad day you go back to basics and the basics of our passing game is get it to those two guys second down and goal [Applause] himself touchdown and now the steel of frustration really exhibit yourself lady well these are the the Flatliners and the cerebral ones with a ton of emotion tonight as well yeah which one is which though that's the only question I think Brady saw this stunt coming over this way and just sneaks in behind Logan Mankins and I did think that that ball hit the goal line remember all you have to do is get the ball across the various front molecule that goal line and it's a touchdown and it's pretty clear [Music] [Applause] for the extra point [Music] [Applause] [Music] we've seen a chunk wedge in a slice [Music] well for the Pittsburgh Steelers really the difference has been there in ability without Hines Ward to make these plays down around the goal line the drop by Mike Wallace Randall L had one then the Miss glittery [Music] one thing's pretty apparent here the New England Patriots have followed up their worst performance of the season with maybe their best yeah and it's really surprising because I thought that the Steelers tonight were going to because of the change in the offensive line up front just try to play some power football this Patriots defense had given up so many yards and Peyton Hillis just ran through him it was ridiculous watching you couldn't believe it was the New England Patriots defense and yet the Steelers tonight got behind early missed some plays and really ray will never able to get back to that running game and stay with it 20 point lead in the waning moments of the taken at the seven sackers me but harrington great special teams tackles the night by the patriots their secondaries been hitting all night long and check out tom brady there you go remember me I'm the guy you can't beat a couple of championship games here oh they remember coorporate oh yeah brady loves when the competition gets good and the games get big and he is showing up huge here tonight you know it's an interesting thing that 300 yards figure which normally indicates but two things there are two sides to that point you've either had a great night and you've really helped you team million or you just playing catch-up and you're picking up a lot of yardage and garbage fun but that 2604 record tells you a lot pass incomplete in brainy's case it's clearly the situation when he throws for 300 burgers bad the team's having a great night as is the case tonight yeah there's no doubt and we talked about it coming into this one that if the Patriots doesn't win it was going to be because Tom Brady had a huge night and there you go Tom Brady had a huge night [Applause] maiya put a lick on Roethlisberger on that Blanche Pass second down and ten [Applause] [Music] to the 50-yard [Music] in Pittsburgh it's the England 23 and the Steelers or to these messages [Music] now my kiss Cris Collinsworth Andrea Kramer Heinz Field start the fourth quarter twenty three three million first the Steelers at their own 49-yard on [Applause] therefore staff Miller to the Patriots 45 yard line well they're starting to really work over this left side of the offensive line now of the Pittsburgh Steelers and there's Pat Chung back on the ground he's had a very good game tonight we get missing a couple of games the last two with a knee injury and needs an injury timeout here [Applause] Hines Ward hasn't been in since he took the helmet the helmet hit at the end of the first quarter they said it was a neck he has been back in the game four days it was enough that clear to come back in medically and he's been on the sidelines since the end of the first period second down and four now after Chung the field of Israel [Applause] is right crawling on the run excuse me the sideline by Emanuel Sanders yeah the one thing that I think you have to be careful about doing is too many inside moves against Ben Roethlisberger once you open that gate on the outside he is just deadly scrambling out and especially scrambling to his right at times John Flavel tried an inside move and made it too easy for Ben [Applause] Sony's back in the game Burger days and Sanders makes the catch on the other side of the field rookie against rookie tackle dare by Devin McCourty well it's not just the left-side flow cell Adams having a little trouble with some stunts as well but Ben Roethlisberger's been hanging in there the best that he can he really has had very little time at all to throw it you can see just as he's getting rid of it there are people in his face so it has definitely sped up his thought process back there [Music] [Applause] with his foot being held he gets the pass away to Isaac Redmond near sack again but Bend that time with Tully Banta cane coming in and a penalty as well on the play as well offsetting here [Applause] one son Chun the safety ones on Jonathan Scott the left tackle well Jonathan Scott's doing the best he can but he's no match for the speed of tele Banta cane and that's what I was talking about earlier once this Steelers offensive line they're a little bit like the Dallas Cowboys up there that they're fine and play-action stuff but once you get forced into a straight drop back passing game they really kind of lack that quickness to be able to be pure pass blockers so back to first intent with 46 yard and after scooters roses the streets it to Wallace [Applause] tackle Obama corty moves it to the five-yard line the spotted at the six down making first down in gold now trying create just a little rub on the outside between these two receivers and back inside just allow that defender to get in there to make McCourty hesitate for a minute if there is a man-to-man buster on this Pittsburgh Steelers team you're looking at him right there my claws [Applause] from the six nemesis tonight [Applause] negative two [Music] [Applause] now the first question is was it a clean catch [Applause] that is hand underneath it it has control of it wouldn't change it from that angle nope [Applause] [Music] [Applause] fast and they've got under the ball as he went to the ground the extra point which is good and he gets a boss here [Music] Emmanuel Sanders with his first NFL touchdown to make it easy possession game numbers to the two guys Brady having a tremendous night and most part for him they sup our night though that was a good Drive - eh [Applause] than the fire and take the to kickoff return touchdowns already Susan takes it back to the 40-yard line and that's where Brady will go to work 2310 [Music] Patriots tonight have come out they've taken it to the street this is Sunday night they're gonna kill master tonight the Pittsburgh Drive [Applause] when the 40 yard line in that spot by the good London gain of 13 yards where they are playing a game with James Harrison on the outside algae Crumpler all night long has been able to get this block right there and Harrison's sort of in and out of past coverage that time they get a double-team maybe even a little bit of a hold but they have been able to run it just enough to make that play-action work and Brady tonight with his play fakes has just been masterful first on all season the students are allowed that's green Ellison right now the total rush yardage for New England is 84 coming into the game New England against Pittsburgh Pittsburgh allowing only 2.6 yards per rush which is spectacular and tonight New England's averaging a tick under five yards per carry well remember Keizo no air his defense that didn't allow more than 17 points in the first five games the last bill sitting still out of the law second down and the 35-yard line let's check in with Andrew well you mentioned Timmons and here's the update the trainers were working on him massaging his right side he has a hip injury in there calling his return questionable yes his last play that was the play in which he hurt himself came off and hasman back in so that's my foots been doing most of the action in that spot like the past offender that start to pick on him a little bit [Applause] for the outside that is incomplete France intended receiver but I'll tell you one thing that Larry foot is and he is the emotional leader he is the guy that comes out of the locker room talking trash and getting these guys fired up and the steelers to a man talked about when he left via free agency how much they missed their emotional leader well it's time for an emotional leader right now they can't afford to give up any more points in this one [Applause] one hit not down Grady that's incomplete and finally we get to Brady that they fired their gun that time they came with that cross blitz that they're known for they're going to bring them both right in there I think they're going to get an intentional grounding out of it tension of grounding number 12 often 10-yard penalty laughs sit down in the pocket throwing it away and that is a big one there so now it really opens up the playbook here got to be outside the pocket in order for it to be intentional grounding he was clearly inside and there it is not a receiver in sight [Applause] wait a minute boys where's underneath Jordan random take taken down by McFadden Woodley came in and got to Brady just as he released the ball it'll be fourth down and 15 [Applause] in almost every big down situation the Steelers have been willing to play man-to-man coverage against these Patriots receivers and that's something I think that Tom Brady's gonna have to deal with for the rest of the season without loss [Music] they're looking let's go to puck [Music] [Applause] they're caught by Weibull mill at the 11-yard line 912 left fourth quarter in pittsburgh 23 to 10 patrons back here Heinz Field Pittsburgh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Samuel Wallace makes the first 11-yard game hey Roethlisberger talked about Tom Brady's arm strings Roethlisberger that time through that one completely flat-footed he saw Wallace open in last second just one he just stops himself in all arm getting bumped in the process got that thing out of there he's starting to get a little rhythm right now though the Steelers are waking up offense these four walls tonight [Applause] from New England touchdown [Applause] so just when the Steelers dude started to get it rolling and to the last drive and a good beginning to this one a deflected pass a pick and a 31 yard interception return right back here gonna end up running a slant and this ball is well behind Antoine Randall L came out aloud pat chung to get his hands on it and then it was pretty easy for Sanders from there just the way that it's gone they finally find a little something going offensively and just have not been able to make the plays and and you know Hines Ward in many ways is a security blanket for this group demonstration on the scoring team that 15-yard penalty will be assessed on the kickoff for the group demonstration call against New England but with Sanders scoring his first touchdown since his rookie year of old five and it's a nineteen point differential right now the numbers stay out there and go for the two-point conversion the point the last time back [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is incomplete as Tom winds up on his seat 2-point conversion fails but New England's lead is that lengthy [Music] after the penalty the kick will come from the 15-yard line of the foot Graham from the 21 yard line Sanders [Music] this poor question tonight takes the ball out to midfield really stepping it up yeah after one of the worst performances I've seen out of them all year they started dialing up blintzes like this little stunts inside guys coming through and making the play had the brief blitz called Mendenhall blocks [Music] once again inside with the new offensive line had a difficult time picking up some of the stunts back inside and in fairness to the Pittsburgh Steelers 60% of the what they thought was going to be their starting offensive line not playing in this banana show it's Milly take the team up to the line of scrimmage without a huddle second and one from a 44 [Applause] there's a flagon attached this babe Randall L and the tackle is made by Cheung well for Pat Chung coming back off that knee injury he's covering them anyway possible sometimes it's not the building number 25 defense that penalties declined results of the play first down to some point yeah I don't think he cares you know he's working his way back in it and in some ways tonight the Patriots have sort of played like the Pittsburgh Steelers you know they've matched their their mentality they matched the intensity of what you would have thought after a three-game road trip the Steelers would have been feeling coming back in this building and yet most of the emotion tonight really come out of the papers definitely [Music] [Music] the ball ready for play at the 38-yard line [Music] waynebow l and that's Shawn just in his second years drafted in the second round of course the Patriots drafting a lot of defensive backs in the last few years very young defense started for rookies tonight I heard they have a pretty good coach yeah them up too huh and the transition for this week to the next week Roethlisberger another fair is gone Sanders workers waited the 15-yard line well it's hard enough to block tele ban takane when he's on side when he's off sides gets to be really tough and it's so offside here in Patrick Chung is down again so missing to be side number 95 defense that penalty is declined second down a couple of games with a knee issue second injury timeout or Chung tonight on and off the field he has been [Applause] [Music] that's fair [Applause] [Music] [Applause] let's say for a speed receiver this Mike Wallace is just impressed me right here with his ability to go over the middle I've been around so many of these guys you know when they show up and this is one of the fastest players in league and generally all they want to do is go deep go deep wanna come back that's it this kid has proven to me over the past three weeks that he is willing to go inside take a hit and he is maturing as a route runner the Gopher to Wallace six touchdown of the season [Applause] [Music] Wars gonna take the snap [Applause] quite a car destroyed and does and so that puts him in a position down by 11 if you get a touchdown the two-point conversion in the field goal that they can pull that off well there's just really nothing too pretty about this it's just a double team on both outside guys and then the scrum and who can push the scrum forward or push the scrum backwards and trey essex get on the back end of that choo-choo train and just push the whole pile forward just put his backside into it and they pick up a couple of points and a big couple too because again if you if you go for one or miss on the two you're going to need a couple of touchdowns but this way as I say you get the touchdown a two-point conversion and a field goal get that field goal and touchdown in either order and that's how you make up the eleven twenty nine to eighteen the games not going to go away for Bill Belichick it looks every once in a while like it's going to be a little more comfortable and now it's decision time are you going to take a shot here with an onside kick the Patriots answer with their hands team out there and some of the guys on that hand Steve I'm not that guy [Music] there's always the one that I want to see them sort of drop it in the hole about the Patriots 40-yard line and see if one of those guys can recover the bouncing ball shots kind of racing there sometimes you get a weird hop you get your guys running forward their guys running backwards and see what it's a little ground [Applause] typical sidekick [Applause] neech people think they have it but that the Steelers touch it before it went 10-yard correct the Patriots all come away thinking they have the ball regardless I thought Keenan Lewis was pretty close to touching that one before it hit the line has to get to the 40 before it can be touched by the kicking team and Jeffers is already signaled in it's New England's ball at the 40 yard line not gonna matter now but let's check out Keenan Lewis and see if he touches this ball before it gets to the yellow line is now it wouldn't have mattered anyway illegal touch off his foot pretty good job by Mayo there he almost knocked Lewis into that ball he didn't jump on it until it got to that 10 yard mark gave Lewis a shot and I think knocked him into the football short feel at the pitch booth give it to him [Applause] mean of about four yards to the 36 yard line three straight three hundred yard passing games against the Steelers the second player to do that Brian site back in 79 and 80 you get the feeling the Steelers defensively hate this style more than anything else they like being in a phone booth and the fistfight and stopping to run and right out it's like they think it's almost not fair like become quite thin just aren't going Joe 40 seconds Brady tonight and that's caught by Sammy Morris coming out of the backfield he gets to the 31 yard line and that will move the chains and take more time off the clock for Troy Polamalu oh he's gonna take a guess here he's thinking run he's gonna come in there and take a shot at this off tackle playing it goes the opposite way and he is allowed to go try and figure it out on his own that time he went opposite the motion of the fullback and then the fullback lands wide open in that play maybe more than any other tonight is really given the Steelers Fitz will throw out the [Applause] and at this point the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to start to use their timeouts with 5:12 almost never I mean we had the graphic before 22 and 2 after losses in the last several years for Bill Belichick so I mean they really laid an egg new Cleveland last week predicted is gonna come back and they're gonna play the following [Applause] [Music] then in this league this year nobody knows anything I can't remember a year in which there has been no team really emerge every team has at least two losses we have the Jets now we have the Falcons sitting there at 7 and 2 the winner of this game will come out of this thing 7 and 2 as well but ordinarily we're used to the Colts or the Saints or somebody being undefeated maybe going for a perfect season and this year this hasn't been that way [Applause] [Music] a flag is down back in the 37 yard line and it was Woodley who came in and planted bridge no foul roughing the quarterback number 56 defense that penalty will be enforced on the kickoff the results of the play is a touchdown Gronkowski who had a game to forget last week as a game to remember for the rest of his life tonight can we touch that sorry our confusion in that secondary of the Pittsburgh Steelers and once again William Gay the victim on this one gay and pole Malo just could not figure out which one was going to take which receiver and it costs them another touchdown we have seen a lot of just mistakes there's another mistake but the stakes and the secondary and coverage that very atypical for this Steelers team and we'll missus last extra point attempt puts this one through to double the score 36 18 New England and it's not the first time Tom Brady has done this to this Pittsburgh Steelers defense we have seen him in the past this is just a style of course not everybody has a Tom Brady to play quarterback and you can't do this with every football team but you could just see the frustration level on the faces of these Steelers defenders they have no answer for what Tom Brady has done tonight you know it's funny with with New England through the years the tight ends I mean after been coach left really haven't played that big of a roiling been watching that a pretty good year you know five or oh six and now you've got Gronkowski they love the kid Hernandez who we haven't seen that much of tonight and now she crumples the other side that's a that's a pretty good troika yeah and it's been Hernandez a lot of times with the big plays in the passing game but tonight because they wanted to make sure they got those outside guys block we've seen more of Crumpler we've seen more of Gronkowski because of their blocking abilities when they're going to get into more of a pure open passing game you'll see Hernandez but it was one of the things that the Steelers were talking about anytime you play against Bill Belichick they're going to have specialists at the tight end position and a guy that can come out of the backfield and catch balls and would [Music] taken at the end zone Sanders wanted to come out with it Redman says forget about it let's go to Andrea well we've seen Kron Kowski with the hatchet tonight I spoke with his mother Diane about their athletically gifted family five boys three in the NFL she said there was hardly a dull moment with them growing up needless to say everything was competitive and not only the hat trick tonight for Rob but for all the boys all around Chris one for Dallas Dan one in Denver and of course Rob keeping pace tonight with the Patriots what a day for the Gronkowski family everybody's for Denver done 96 the bow Roethlisberger it's away from old shirt it's the pass away in the sport up at the 40-yard line Mike Wallace and the hustle up to the line of scrimmage snap it as fast as they can well so much of this offense is built around that three wide receivers to one side one receiver down here to the bottom and Mike Wallace and Hines Ward is sort of that move guy and that this hasn't been quite the same in there without [Music] Will's wallace's work on that route to its max first down at the 42 of New England yo Mike Wallace is starting to show some real patience it was funny watching him in practice the other day Ben Roethlisberger overthrew him on a go and I was look back at him like oh he's gonna be disappointed in that when he was jumping up and down he was so excited they said nobody can ever overthrow that guy he was excited he missed him because he overthrowing seven catches tonight double to the 30 three and a half minutes to play a lot of sort of late yards here for the Pittsburgh Steelers which are going to skew the stats of this one but this has been a defensive effort that was clearly one of the best of the year for the Patriot no question about the fact that Roethlisberger is going to wind up for with about 300 or more and that pass is incomplete as Sanders goes down and Sanders is shaken on the play covered by McCourty let's give them a little tip of the hat to that offensive line for the New England Patriots what a job they did but anytime you play the pittsburgh steelers and all their blitz packages and all the things that Dick LeBeau can throw at you when you see a goose egg right they're not on him but that's pretty good guy right there - Sebastian boiler he's had a heck of a game [Applause] thirty-two for this éclairs amenity park for a touchdown by [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] that play extension of Ben Roethlisberger and again makes it pay off receivers keep working Wallace gets free enough and it's a 33 yard touchdown Mike Wallace just never stops here he is he's gonna stop there and I see some moving around okay I'm gonna run over here to this side and somehow pin finds these guys I mean they're their offense so much of it is built around Ben Roethlisberger's ability to do this just move around they can't tackle him good job that time in sight Jonathan Scott held his guy and there we go again and again they go for two to try to make it a ten point dude you get a flag on the end [Applause] looks like one of the receivers got decked prior to the past illegal contact number 32 defense about the distance to the goal repeat the try from the one yard line Devin McCourty not sure but it looked like Vince Wilfork who sort of fell off the line of scrimmage comes back and I can't believe Vince doesn't know the illegal contact rules down to 50 here's your nose tackle the new legal contact down the field nature's fling half a new goofin for the ball at the one-yard line [Music] lay into well he does get a good answer go line and the two-point try is good to make it a 10-point game was a late call I end up calling that one maybe five seconds after he started to get driven back it wasn't called immediately by the official on that side but as that pile started moving back I guess he had time to think about it and thought it was a it was good again it Belichick wants the challenge and he can we're outside of two minutes at 2:59 the question is do you see enough to overturn it the ball gets obscure here I think the answer to that is no I I couldn't see it from that angle and this one's not down the line and right that's the issue you can't see it again but you also have to wonder in that situation how did the linesman see it either right doesn't matter well this game still not over been crazy the fourth quarter 3626 so fish for again with an on side trying here the last one was touched before it went ten yards and now Belichick is going to challenge what looked like it looked like you reached down for the flag and then he said [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is taken by algae Crumpler so they put Crumpler in on special teams in this situation the tight end with the good hands and the wigglin will take over at the 32 yard line well it's one of the things they do on the hands team now instead of trying to catch it on the frontline they send those guys out the block and then let somebody with good hands in behind make the catch that time mayo with a great block in front that afforded Crumpler the opportunity to make the catch good play [Applause] so Pittsburgh can stop it twice defense the wall of the 33 yard to 57 Marine Ellis is making sure he stays inbounds to the 30-yard line and compelling Pittsburgh to take its second time on there's the look on bolding the face McKinney defense five-yard penalty refeed first down oh that's Casey Hampton [Applause] with the penalty cool and one of the things you get or you've missed when the umpire standing back in the backfield is some of those defensive holding calls but now I believe at this point in the game is he moved back behind them did he yeah I think it's the five minute mark they go back for Heinrich again and now you see the umpire and so now some of those things defensive lineman can get away with they can't get away [Applause] this is greed that was forgettin to the 24-yard line huge night for that man in the history of the franchise they began as the Boston Patriots in 1960 first Patriots rookie with three touchdowns in a game yeah it's always good to see a rookie that can bounce back like that and if for the Kraft family it's a pretty good bounce-back game for them as well I'm sure they're getting excited about what they're seeing with this team to second and six mama assume racing in and he overruns the play the 21 yard line for green Ellis and the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to take a timeout here on the other side of the front side of the two-minute warning well for the Patriots tight ends tonight it has been a good evening starting right off with this bullet from Tom Brady for the touchdown when they just play fake and easy one then a little confusion back there as well and he was able to beat a corner William Jay as well and frowzy Crumpler this night was a little more subtle a lot of blocking inside on those outside linebackers and just enough of a running game to get those play-action fake working for Tom Brady and good night for some of those specialists on the outside and really didn't get to see that much of Aaron Hernandez probably their best pursuit breehn Ellis we afford that that takes us to the two-minute warning at 1:50 officially with the New England Patriots on top by a score of 36 to 26 [Music] [Applause] then there is the [Music] go to 72 [Music] [Applause] mike vick i think he's the leading pastor in the league coming into this and I believe Vince Young is second so he has been an impressive year for Mike Vick after it looked like would he ever hit his athleticism back or not boys he's shown a lot this is see him next week 36 yard attempt here for [Applause] and sane grams pick is a wobbly one but goes through could you take the equivalent of a screwball there pesco puts it down and which way does it go [Applause] yeah but after a missed extra point tonight I'm sure shame Christmas tree thinking I need all the good publicity I can get here Ben Roethlisberger may be thinking I could use a little help up front on that offensive line you know it really has been people forget that Willie Cologne who was supposed to be the starting right tackle on the guy I think is their best offensive lineman was out from the beginning of the season with that Achilles Chris Camelot too should be back next week back starts out for the rest of the season so this is going to be a makeshift group for pretty much the rest of the year Pittsburgh in the near future Oakland comes here next week it starts open comes here after their bye week and the Raiders are all of a sudden hot and in very much in contention in that AFC West and then the Steelers go to Buffalo in three more weeks to Baltimore that'll be a Sunday night game on the fifth night of December Williams kick kick it in at the Isaac Redmond up to the 29 yard line coming into this one at some point you're gonna probably wind up with three home games in the world like five their last day at home well hello this one day help already squat Randall L takes the ball out to the 40-yard line first and ten then taking a little extra time here considering a circumstance fold-in in patriot territory by waving at the 46-yard line well and it's pretty easy to see now who they're focusing on for this Patriots defense Mike Wallace is getting a lot of attention they have seen enough of him [Applause] eight catches 136 yards and two touchdowns for number 17 the 36-yard line ticking down to 45 seconds you know at some point you really need to begin to think about taking a shot even if it's a Hail Mary or more like it right here [Applause] he's not going to be able to do it because he's going to go down in a heap at the 39 yard line and that is five sacks of Roethlisberger tonight ban takane Warren are both there and that Pittsburgh will spend his final time out well Patriots almost as many sacks tonight as they have all season and Mike Wallace on the outside you're gonna get a shovel E and a lot of people standing around they have defenders I say nope not you will let young man by the name of Manuel Sanders take a shot at it but really at this point I think that it's time you know you just take your shot you know you because even if you recover an onside kick you're still gonna have to have probably another completion before the Hail Mary [Applause] timeout timeout New England a 30-second timeout [Applause] [Music] the last time the Steelers gave up this many points and homie to go back to the AFC Championship game after the old four season and it was Bill Cowher as the head coach it was 41 to 27 [Music] an AFC championship game and of course New England came in here twice in the decade to win the conference title and proceed to the Super Bowl [Applause] second and 13 [Applause] and then we'll tuck it underneath [Music] fifteen [Applause] man indicator is to spike it barely matters at this point they're going to need two touchdowns and they don't have time to do that I just don't get it I don't know why you do that that's just that's a give up there you had to take your shot in the endzone which would have left you enough time for the onside kick but helps your stats so what the heck they make a few dollars on your next gun they started the drive are you thinking and Duncan and taking a little too much time but you're right this is a classic case of two guys throwing for 300 yards one of them Brady had a great night and it's a legit 350 and raucous burger is gonna wind up throwing for over 350 yards tonight [Applause] in fact rebellion satyrs that's the way the game will land with a plant by Mayo and the New England Patriots follow their worst performance of the year with a great performance on the road go to seven and two and remain on top of the AFC East with the New York Jets coming up next the Wendy's postgame report that will follow from fines field but first these 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