The Pittsburgh Steelers are moving into Week 12 of the NFL regular season, and as the team prepares for the Cincinnati Bengals, we continue to provide you with features, commentary and opinions to tide you over until the next game starts!
Today in the black-and-gold links article we take a look at how the Steelers current injury situation rubs salt in the wound of the loss to the Browns in Week 11.
Let’s get to the news:
- Could it get worse than the 21-7 loss to the Cleveland Browns on Thursday Night Football? Yes, it can, and it did with the ridiculously long injury list following the game.
Kevin Gorman: Browns add insult to injuries in beating Steelers
By: Kevin Gorman, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
If Mason Rudolph throwing passes to Johnny Holton and Tevin Jones in the second half wasn’t a bad enough sign for the Pittsburgh Steelers, there was an even more ominous statistic.
The Cleveland Browns caught more of Rudolph’s passes than those two combined, intercepting the Steelers quarterback four times on their way to a 21-7 victory Thursday night at FirstEnergy Stadium.
The Steelers were decimated by injuries and demoralized by turnovers in this defeat, one that ended their four-game winning streak and dropped them out of wild-card playoff positioning.
First, running back James Conner aggravated his shoulder injury. The Steelers also lost receivers JuJu Smith-Schuster and Diontae Johnson to concussions after both absorbed helmet-to-helmet hits. Additionally, the Steelers lost defensive depth when cornerback Artie Burns (knee) and outside linebacker Ola Adeniyi (concussion) were injured on special teams.
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- The Browns were “embarrassed” by Myles Garrett. Well, at least that’s something...
Browns ‘embarrassed’ by ‘inexcusable’ Myles Garrett helmet swing
By: Chris Adamski, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Myles Garrett didn’t offer any excuses. And neither did his teammates.
Across the Cleveland Browns locker room and at the postgame podium at FirstEnergy Stadium, there was unanimous admonishment for Garrett’s notorious helmet swing toward the bare head of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph in the final minute of Cleveland’s 21-7 win Thursday night.
“He understands what he did,” Browns coach Freddie Kitchens said. “He understands what he did is totally unacceptable.”
Several Browns players seemed resigned that the NFL will suspend Garrett — and none of them suggested that it would be unfair or undeserved if the league did.
“There’s no way to justify it,” Browns receiver Odell Beckham Jr. said. “You just can’t do it. There’s no place in this game for it.”
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- To say Steelers players were angry with Myles Garrett might be the understatement of the century.
‘He has to answer for that’ – Steelers shocked by helmet swing of Browns’ Myles Garrett
By: Chris Adamski, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
There was anger, there was a sense of standing up for a teammate, and there even was an air of pending restitution. But perhaps the most prominent feeling of all in the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room about a half hour after Myles Garrett’s helmet swing at Mason Rudolph was one of shock.
“I have never seen anything like that,” cornerback Joe Haden said, “especially when a player doesn’t have a helmet on — and it’s your quarterback.”
Rudolph said he hadn’t seen an on-field incident like that in his football career, either. Rudolph called it “cowardly and bush league.”
Teammate Mark Barron used another word.
“Bull——,” the Steelers linebacker said. “And I’ll just leave it at that. Bull——. I’ll just leave it exactly like that, because that’s exactly what it was. Not much else to be said about that.”
Coach Mike Tomlin chose exactly that route — not saying anything.
“I’ll keep my thoughts to myself,” Tomlin said.
“I have no comment,” he added after a follow-up.
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- Social Media Madness
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