Mike Tomlin may finally have a team that can go as far as he did in his early years. Plus, why the Giants will likely have to stop playing Daniel Jones and more.
. And even still, a ton of fun story lines. As we’ve been doing all season, we’ll publish the takeaways Sunday and update them live through Monday morning. So come back again if not all 10 are here yet …People in Pittsburgh know the facts here. As great as Mike Tomlin’s been—he’s now two wins from an 18th consecutive season at or above .500—the team hasn’t been what it was in his early years. The Steelers’ last playoff win was in 2016.
Steelers offensive coordinator Arthur Smith had the call in for such a situation, but the idea was to throw it to Calvin Austin. The bet was, in that situation, the Commanders would either double George Pickens, or send a five-man pressure, creating a one-on-one for Austin, who was running a go route on the backside. But Austin had to come out of the game, and that meant the Steelers had to lean on Russell Wilson.
“We all knew where the line to gain was,” Fitzpatrick says. “We’re trying to peel him back to the line of scrimmage and not let him fall back toward the chains.”And between that play, and the one to Williams, it was abundantly clear that not only is this a Steelers team with a powerful defense and a growing offense, it’s also one that’s showing itself now to be capable of winning on the margins, with, as Fitzpatrick says, the have-to-have-it plays that matter most at the end.
If they weren’t ringing already, the 20–17 overtime loss to the Carolina Panthers is going to sound alarms on the state of Gotham’s proud old flagship franchise. It’s obviously unfortunate that Jones and the Giants are in this spot. It means they’ll have paid, in the end, a staggering $82 million for 16 starts, over which Jones went 3–13 and threw 10 touchdown passes and 13 interceptions. But it has to be done, with the vision of Jones being a high-end bridge quarterback shattered, and the evidence that they’d have been better off going with Baker Mayfield or Sam Darnold.
In Baltimore, the Bengals’ defense failed again. It was the third time this season that Cincinnati scored in the 30s and lost. It was the fourth time in five losses that the defense gave up 35 or more points, with the two instances of thathappening coming in Weeks 1 and 2. So, if you’re blaming Burrow, or the offense in general, for the Bengals’ problems you’re, either not paying attention or being intellectually dishonest.
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