The Steelers have a two touchdown lead over the Giants at the half at Heinz Field, of course it didn’t come the normal way, as the team has two field goals, one touchdown and a safety.
The defense had a huge turnover on a Lawrence Timmons pick near the goal line as he took back an Eli Manning pass back 58 yards to stop the Giants best first half threat.
With 30 minutes left in this one, we give some first half thoughts and if we think the team can hang on for their third straight win as they would stay tied with the Ravens at 7-5 atop the AFC North.
1. Davis Stepping Up
One thing that stood out is the play of rookie safety Sean Davis, who is playing lights out with some big hits in the first half, and he’s been a big part of the reason why the Steelers pitched a first half shutout. Love the fact the team is allowing these young players to play in big moments and make plays, and he’s stepped up and made some plays the last few weeks in this win streak. He’s gonna make mistakes like Artie Burns, but let the kid keep playing and if it doesn’t pay off this year, it will for sure in the future.
2. Ben Being Ben
Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger was 17-for-24 for 204 yards with the touchdown to Antonio Brown, which was the thing of beauty the way he was able to move in the pocket and basically tell AB to go to a spot and he hit that spot. He’s totally outplaying Eli Manning, who has thrown for 70 yards and had that huge pick to Timmons that killed a Giants scoring chance. Ben always does seem more comfortable at home, and this game he’s stepped up against a Giants defense that was playing better, now let’s hope he does that again in the second half with a 14-0 lead.
3. Run Defense
The team gave up that silly 3rd down conversion as the GMen ran for 7 yards on a play in the second quarter, but other than that the Giants have done very little in the run game, which is no surprise based on their numbers running this season. New York has run just 8 times for 21 yards, putting up 2.8 yards per carry. Those are numbers that usually translate to wins for a defense, and the way the Steelers have made sure not to allow sloppy plays to the Giants offense, this is looking like it’s going in the right direction for the Steelers to get to 7-5.
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Jay
December 4, 2016 at 7:51 pm
The Steelers are up 21-7 in spite of Tomlin and his joke of a coaching staff, not because of! Penalty after penalty week after week, bell fumbling, useless Villanueva who sucks at left tackle getting ben sacked this putting the team behind the chains which thusly caused Haley to call a deep play and subsequent int. The Steelers are trying to lose but the giants are not trying to win even harder!
Jay
December 4, 2016 at 9:54 pm
I know many in Steelers nation are going to seriously laud this win…don’t get me wrong, I am glad for the w moving forward…many might even poo-poo my first response on this thread. The Steelers had 12 penalties for 115 yards….entirely unacceptable! This team needs better discipline and attention to detail moving forward. The giants, I predict, will be lucky to even make the playoffs as their record will catch up to them…they simply are not that good. I don’t know who to pin these penalties on. Many people opine that Tomlin is not out there committing the penalties yet the same penalties happen en masse every week. Is that discipline, are the players not attending to their details? If so, isn’t that the head coach’s job to see to it that they do or else?!?!?!?the ravens are the most boring team in football yet they seem to be well prepared every week and don’t shoot themselves in the foot. The Steelers have way more talent on paper on both sides of the ball than Baltimore yet for the past five plus years the Ravens have owned us in the head to head. Details, details, details and discipline! That comes from their head coach who is vastly superior to ours. If we beat buffalo next week, circle the road game at cincy as a potential let down as Tomlin might inexplicably have his crew looking ahead to Baltimore. In the mean time, we have to root for New England next week. I’d almost rather have a novocane free root canal!