Steelers Lounge Podcast #15: Steelers-Bengals Recap — Thanks (for Nothing), Skippy!

Is it just me or did someone else notice that after the fumble recovery on the opening kickoff, Emmanuel Sanders gave the first down signal going in the wrong direction? I said to myself that it’s good he didn’t recover the fumble as he might have gone the wrong way with it.

Gene Collier of the PP-G practically hurts himself criticizing the Steelers’ offensive play-calling in the 4th quarter last night, including the Randle-El TD pass (which worked of course, however fortunately). Seriously, Gene? Were you paying attention to how we blew all those leads last season? Ben’s INT was a relatively easy pass that would have practically clinched the game, but Ben choked on it (by his own admission). This was followed by a classic productive run-heavy drive that was wasted by Reed’s missed FG. I don’t want the Steelers sitting on these leads. That was just a very strange 4th quarter where almost every possible thing went wrong after the El TD pass, mostly in unpreventable fashion– perfectly thrown ball to TO for TD, the Ben braincramp, bad officiating calls, a very makeable missed FG, a wild deflected screen pass that bounced into Ced Benson’s hands… shit happens. I still don’t want us just falling down on the ball to run the clock, moving ahead.