man i actually cant think of a time ive seen ben more locked in! and with mendenhal finally providing what parker should’ve , mixed with polamalu being back (AND UNFRIGGINBELEIVABLE)

we look incedible again … our two losses are by less point than a touchdown combined …

this season is looking great again!

My face hurts from smiling too much. you’d think I’d just gotten botox

someone needs to dig up and post a pic of hines jumping over that guy for the touchdown!

I found the following fanposts at Mile High Report somewhat amusing.

Pre Game Samples:

“Broncos Trample Steel Curtain”
“THE LEGENDARY SECONDARY”
“Broncoman Calls his shot, Broncos blow out Steelers”

Post Game Tidbits:

“Complete Meltdown by the Broncos”
“Don’t Jump”
“Calm Down Everyone!”

Oh what a difference 60 minutes of reality can do to the psyche of a fan base. I found it hard not to chuckle after the seemingly neverending predictions of a Bronco victory this past week.

Kyle Orton: a really accurate and smart QB. . . when he has time and his feet set.

Make him move and he’s toast. His throws when having to move were terrible, unlike Brett Favre two weeks ago who still did quite well moving around to avoid the rush and still delivering the ball. If Orton is your QB, you need one heck of an O-line and run game to win the big games.

Our O-Line was great. Run and pass they were beating their man. I’m not going to get too gushy on them, because I don’t think they do so well if Denver has some elite D-lineman. Our line is playing together, executing and bringing a lot of passion, but the last step is beating elite lineman. I’ll cry with joy if they start doing that.

Old Dogs, those old CB’s played well. Ty Law on Hines was better than a lot of DB’s and Dawkins was great. Homes had the best game of his season, and man was I glad to see that. I don’t think he dropped any this week, that’s a big big Big thing for this team.

Man, Rashard Mendenhall might not get low when he should, but that high running makes him a beast at the second level. I don’t mind seeing a RB run out of bounds on a long run when there is no where to go, they don’t need more collisions than they already get. His acceleration and angles are great, but that ball moving all over in his arm just makes me nervous, oh well, I’ll take it.

Anyone else get a sad twinge seeing Willie watch on the sideline as Mewelde was running? That’s a career flashing before your eyes. I think he knows he’s done here, and it hurts. I love the Willie Parker story, but great heart and a rags to riches undrafted FA is the Steelers Super Bowl RB story doesn’t get yards yards, and Willie just doesn’t have what Mendenhall has anymore.

Big Ben is still Big Ben. He was visibly upset after missing on his pass to Limas Sweed. You can tell he wants to get him the ball, and he just threw it behind Sweed. I don’t know how much we are paying him, but I hope we can keep Limas around just in case he can come out of this funk.

Mike Wallace! Route running and great hands, that sliding catch was some Hines Ward material. Man this kid was a steal. Who’s got 4 targets better than Hines, Holmes, Wallace, and Miller? Nobody.

Oh man, one more thing; how great was it to have Troy kill a whole drive with two plays. I usually say that Troy’s value to this defense is that we force a lot of plays, and eventually Harrison or Polamalu will make a drive killing play. He made two back to back. That was great. I also loved the underhand not a lateral pass where the TE (I think) grabbed Troy and held on for dear life. I can understand that mentality, he’s the last guy you want to get that ball.

That’s all, what a great game. Let’s go beat Cincy and put this division back in the right hands.

just wanted to congratulate you Steelers fans, hell of a football team you have there

great gameplan, better execution. just wow.

ouch. spank you very much.

: )

I don’t have a good eye for what’s happening in the secondary, so someone please explain how Gay turned his game around in the second half. He looked awful in the first, just as he did against Favre. Did we change pass coverages? Did the Steelers send him some help (i.e. Mundy)? Did Tomlin make him eat his spinach?

Can you also please post a pic of Tomlin running around Invesco pumping his fist and celebrating as if we had just won another Super Bowl? I missed that one.

Man, you guys are a good football team.

Bruce Arians. After a pretty dismal first half effort, we steamrolled the Broncos in that 2nd half, sure a lot of the reigns went to Big Ben, but there were some beautiful plays drawn up and run

I have to agree with Blitz about Willie Colon, the guy had one of his best showings in a Steeler uniform, the whole OLine looked buzzing with energy, and was evidenced by Mendenhalls very healthy ypc.

On that note of Mendenhall, Always great to close out a game, but dayam the Broncos knew we were gonna be wasting clock with the running game and still couldnt stop it.

The team is hitting its strides big time, and Big Ben is one hell of a leader. A fumble lost for a TD and an ugly Redzone pick, yet both times bounced back with authority

I really think that winning that second Superbowl was monumental to Big Bens confidence, he no longer had that monkey on his back about a poor QB performance in the big show, he has been well and truly unleashed this season

So many good points to come out of this game.

The biggest matchup i looked for was our Front 7 on defense versus their offensive line. Whilst Clady kept Harrison in check the majority of the time (my god is Clady one hell of a player) the unit produced a tonne of pressure in all sorts of angles.

Final stat, Steelers with Polamalu 4-0. Without, 2-2. He proved it once again tonight that he is hands down the best Safety in the league.

Bring it Cincinatti. Youre eating at our house next week.

Blitz, you hit all the main points. Glad to see your prognostication of the broncos was correct! Man just grinding it out in the 4th is great, especially when it ends with no time and a sick Ward touchdown!

All I can think of now are those lilly-livered, tiger-striped, jaw-flappin’ orange pansies next week. One more righteous beatdown and the Steelers will control the AFC North!

What stood out in my mind about last nights game was the team effort. Carter filling in for Clark & the feelings expressed on the sidelines for his excellent play. Ben gathering the troops together after the fumble/touchdown & the support shown for Kemoeatu afterward. Sweed being brought into the game & Ben’s obvious disappointment for his poor throw his way. After the game interviews with the Steelers are never about the me, it’s about the team, Ben proud of his O-line, Mendenhall sharing the glory with his teammates. Last night the Steelers played football the way it’s supposed to be played. Strong & aggressive yet clean play drawing few penalties. More than any other sports team the Steelers play as family. Their devotion & support for one another was on display last night & made Steeler Nation proud. The terrible towels were a sight to see! Go Steelers!!

This was a very good win for the Black & Gold. They really exposed the Donkey’s for what they are.(not all that good). Without Marshall they may well have had negative yardage.So it’s on to the weekend or as i like to call it- garuanteed win night against the Cincats. Haven’t we seen this before with these two. I say there qb & top wr are both out by the end. Go Steelers

Cardinals fan here wondering what you guys thought about Mendenhall running out of bounds a couple times. The first time I noticed it was on his first long run when he tried to tight rope the sidelines. Seems like a decent stiff arm might have broken the tackle of the only defender between him and the goal line. The second time he ran out of bounds though I thought was much worse. It was late in the game on his last long run. At that point in the game broken tackles don’t mean near as much as keeping the clock moving and it’s not like a corner is going to deliver a big blow anyways.

nice win Pixburgh.

I’m really lookin forward to this weekend’s AFC North Title Fight……should be a great game.

Awesome, Awesome game…

went pretty much as I expected except for the fumble-6 and the redzone interception, but maybe the lower score will keep us under the radar for a little bit longer.

I love Polamalu, the guy plays on another level altogether.

The Deebs hit on Bucky was narsty, that’s the sort of hit that makes guys like Randy Moss dry heave while watching ESPN.

Think of the guys we have that few outside of SteelerNation don’t know about: Clark, Carter, Fox. And finally the outstanding O-line play is getting props on TV. Not that it matters, but I was glad to see Kemo, Colon, and crew get some positive reviews from the yammer-heads.

Woodley has been inches from multi-sack games.

Nice to see our WRs catch everything that was catchable. This has got to be one of the best three receivers in the NFL. Not intimidating maybe, not the fastest, nor biggest, but I’d argue the all round best.

This is turning into a perfect year (again). I’m fired up.

Many people thought Pittsburgh should have taken Larry Johnson with their pick in the draft… instead they took an under-sized safety name Troy Polo-something-unpronounceable…

What do you think Steeler Nation? How did that work out for us?

It was sobering to think about that as the news about LJ’s being cut from the Chiefs (my God, how bad do you have to be for the Chiefs to not want you???) the same night Troy was putting on a clinic…

This was easily the best complete game the boys have played since last year’s AFC title game. I was very, very impressed.

Given the way last season played out (tough schedule, nailbiter games, SB run), the Steelers could be forgiven for having some Super Bowl hangover. At this point, it’s starting to look, to me, like the early-season sloppiness and struggles were signs of that hangover. (And even then, if not for two end-of-game drives in road games without Troy on the field, we’d be unbeaten even with the sloppiness.) If the boys are really rounding into form now, as we go into the second half of the season, and they’re going to execute like that (against a 6-1 team in a tough building), I’m feeling a lot better about the possibility of a repeat.

Keisel finally has a game where the statistics match his contributions. I don’t think Keisel played that much better last night than he normally does, his contributions just showed on his stat line last night rather than his teammates.

That said, I still don’t like his extension. Remember, the Steelers would have Keisel this year anyway. The measuring stick of the extension is what he does in the years following this season. Although, if Keisel plays like this for the next couple of years, my foot will not be tasting very good.

Its time to focus on the Bengals. God how i can not wait until Deebo and Polamalu get some revenge on Cincy. If you thought our D played physical last night, you aint seen nothing yet.

No more gloating and going on about Denver. We got bigger things to worry about now.

And hey after Cincy, we finally have a “meaningless” game against KC that we wont have to wait on pins and needles for.

Its time to focus on the Bengals. God how i can not wait until Deebo and Polamalu get some revenge on Cincy. If you thought our D played physical last night, you aint seen nothing yet.

No more gloating and going on about Denver. We got bigger things to worry about now.

And hey after Cincy, we finally have a “meaningless” game against KC that we wont have to wait on pins and needles for.

I will try to touch on things I didn’t see anyone else mention

• Mike Wallace is pushing a tremendous run for Offensive Rookie of the year. His stats alone are impressive for a rookie. However, what is most impressive is when he gets these numbers. 3 of 4 of his catches last night were on crucial 3rd downs, one being the TD. Mike seems to have a knack for getting open when it matters most. I remember another time he was open on 3rd down and Ben under threw him. This kid is a stud.

• I remember earlier this week a sports beat write for yahoo sports wrote that Polamalu does not wrap up and tackle properly. Upon reading it I was really annoyed considering Troy is a great tackler. Either Troy read this article and got pissed or this guy has no idea what he is talking about. Troy looked back to 100% and in pro bowl form last night. Every single tackle he wrapped up and I don’t think I saw him miss a single tackle. It was a thing of beauty and I hope I can catch a replay of the game so I can replay those great tackles he made.

• Harrison is continuing his march to be the most held player in the history of the NFL. I don’t understand what constitutes holding any more. And if I hear “holding happens on every play” one more time I might throw a beer on that guy. Its one thing for it to happen and a ref not see it, but Harrison is getting held directly in front of the QB, how do you miss that head ref?

• I know it’s brought up every week, but Logan was extremely unimpressive yesterday. Why did he keep trying to return it on KOs when the kicked put it 7 yards deep in the endzone. Learn to take a knee buddy. Also, Moore looked much better on PRs and had a great one with, what I thought, was a bad block in the back call.

• Was anyone else extremely annoyed with ESPN’s coverage last night? It is a shame these guys have MNF. If it weren’t for how consistent we were on MNF, I’d almost prefer not to play then. Gruden compared us to the Yankees? YACK!

Satisfying.

So glad we went ahead and blew them out to shut up those broncos fans. i have no problem with them predicting their team to win as everyone should do, but seeing them say they’d run away with it and score 30 points on us was getting tiresome.

Now we gotta hear the bungles all week but there are only like 1-2 of them

Teams that normally would throw the ball against us with success have serious reservations when Troy is back there. He’s a true, game-changing player. The Bengals are much better offensively than the Broncos, especially their OL. Carson Palmer is way better than Orton. But Troy even makes good QBs look sick.

Didn’t you just love that play where he leaped up high to get a hand on that sideline pass to Marshall. That showed that Troy is 100 percent back from the knee. What a welcome sight!

Pride should dictate a rough victory over Cincy, especially if the Steelers can build on last night’s performance.

I feel a split with Baltimore – regardless of how much they’re “in it”.

Who else is going to beat us? 13 & 3 doesn’t look overly confident, does it? Maybe the Ravens even beat us twice, which would be ironic, because they could do that and still not make the playoffs.

or maybe a let-down against GB or Miami and 12 & 4.

(W) Sunday, Nov. 15 vs. Bengals
(W) Sunday, Nov. 22 @ Chiefs
(L) Sunday, Nov. 29 @ Ravens
(W) Sunday, Dec. 6 vs. Raiders
(W) Thursday, Dec. 10 @ Browns
(W) Sunday, Dec. 20 vs. Packers
(W) Sunday, Dec. 27 vs. Ravens
(W) Sunday, Jan. 3 @ Dolphins

The AFC North belongs to the Cincinnati Bengals!

Who Dey!

I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve just been walking around all day with this silly grin on my face.

If you saw Steve Young and Matt Millen on the post game on ESPN, did you think they were totally clueless? Neither one of them had anything good to say about Large Benjamin. I love it though. The more they diss him, the more motivated he is to play big. He just wants to win and win.

It did tick me off, but I am not letting it ruin what I thought was a very enjoyable win over the horses.

I am officially pumped to see this Defense next week. Cincy fans can talk all they want, but in their hearts, they know Palmer is going to be stuffed all day long. This D is going to make a statement Sunday.

It was not just a victory on the field, but off it as well. The top post over at Mile High Report is all about how the Steeler Nation showed up strong at Invesco and begging Bronco season ticket holders not to sell to visitor fans.

So to those Steeler Nation faithful who trekked to Denver, you did us proud and I salute you!

You could tell that he was putting a lot of pressure on Mendy telling him they were going to put the ball in his hands and he better not screw this up.

He comes out, first play, Mendy gets a false start. They immediately zoom in on Tomlin and you can just tell he is absolutely fuming!!!

Next play, Mendy runs to the right and makes a dumb move losing 3 yards and almost losing the ball!!!

Gotta love Tomlin though, he gives it right back to him again and Mendy breaks off for that 40 yard run (should’ve stayed in bounds though).

My fist went right up in the air as i just loved seeing Mendy responding like that to Tomlin’s challenge.

You then saw Tomlin march down the sideline congradulating him for responding the way he did.

I’m really pulling hard for Mendenhall. I think he’s a special player in the making. I think Tomlin knows that and is doing a marvellous job of teaching him as to what it takes to be a Pittsburgh Steeler.

Where we have Kemo pulling!! It almost looks unstopable this year. It seems like every time we run it Mendenhall goes off for 15+ yards!