CBS Sports Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 #4 Pittsburgh Steelers (10-8) at #2 Denver Broncos (12-6) Spoiler #4 Pittsburgh Steelers (10-8) at #2 Denver Broncos (12-6) First Quarter PIT DEN 10:00 2:40 PIT Sam Painter, 39 yard Field Goal DEN Cayden Reese, 4 yard pass over the middle from Brian Brown (Louis Dwyer Kick; Charlie Johnson) 3 3 0 7 Second Quarter 11:01 4:09 1:41 0:00 PIT Ricky Vega, 3 yard run (Sam Painter Kick is NO GOOD) DEN Amral Brown, 4 yard pass short right from Brian Brown (Louis Dwyer Kick; Patrick Murphy) PIT Ricky Vega, 1 yard run (Sam Painter Kick) DEN Louis Dwyer, 48 yard Field Goal is NO GOOD (Wide Left) 9 9 16 16 7 14 14 14 Third Quarter 3:16 PIT Julius Reese fumble recovery, return for 5 yards (Amral Brown Fumble; Dane Wilson) 16 14 Fourth Quarter 14:21 9:55 7:02 4:31 0:04 PIT Sam Painter, 27 yard Field Goal DEN Gavin Faulk, 9 yard pass short left from Brian Brown (2PT is NO GOOD; A.J. Wallace) PIT Ricky Vega, 33 yard pass short right from Taylor Heiden (Sam Painter Kick; Cameron Jonah) DEN Damani Laws, 1 yard run (Louis Dwyer Kick) PIT Sam Painter, 35 yard Field Goal 19 19 26 26 29 14 20 20 27 27 Overtime N/A No overtime recorded. - - Box Score Cannonics Stadium - Denver, CO - 23 F 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH OT SCORE #4 Pittsburgh Steelers (10-8) 3 13 0 13 - 29 #2 Denver Broncos (12-6) 7 7 0 13 - 27 Team Stats Comparison Pittsburgh Steelers Denver Broncos Injuries No Injuries CB Dillon Bradley - Severe ACL Rupture (1Q) Top Player Grade RB Ricky Vega (9.32) QB Brian Brown (9.22) Worst Player Grade FS A.J. Wallace (2.31) ILB Cameron Jonah (1.28) Offensive Line Rating Pass Protection: 8.34 Run Blocking: 8.38 Pass Protection: 8.48 Run Blocking: 8.01 Sacks 2 for -13 yards 3 for -18 yards Punting 44.5 43.6 Punt Return Yards 18 6 Kick Return Yards 47 25 Turnovers 0 1 3rd Down Conversion 6/14 4/12 4th Down Conversion 1/1 1/2 Penalties 7/50 6/43 Pittsburgh Steelers Spread Option - Pistol 2RB | 3-4 - Nickel Head Coach: Frank Reich PASSING C/A YDS TD INT F/L Taylor Heiden 17/23 232 1 0 0/0 - -/- - - - 0/0 RUSHING ATT YDS TD LNG F/L Ricky Vega 18 111 2 23 0/0 Sean Meade 11 39 0 8 0/0 Taylor Heiden 3 9 0 5 0/0 - - - - - 0/0 RECEIVING REC YDS TD DRP F/L Jake Schmidt 5 67 0 0 0/0 Ja'Wuan Howard 5 60 0 0 0/0 Ricky Vega 3 53 1 0 0/0 Daniel Marshall 2 33 0 0 0/0 Tyson Moss 1 10 0 0 0/0 Eric Watson 1 9 0 0 0/0 - - - - - 0/0 DEFENSE T/TFL SCK INT/PD FF/FR TD/SFTY Dane Wilson 4/0 - 0/0 1/0 0/0 Julius Reese 3/0 - 0/0 0/1 0/0 Carlos Washington 5/3 1.0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Jermon Pendleton 6/1 1.0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Aaron Mathis 8/0 - 0/1 0/0 0/0 Patrick Murphy 4/0 - 0/1 0/0 0/0 Eric Jones 4/1 - 0/0 0/0 0/0 Noah Crawley 4/0 - 0/0 0/0 0/0 KICKING FG XP Sam Painter 3/3 2/3 ADDITIONAL INFO OG Tyler Burnett allowed only 1 pressure on QB Taylor Heiden. Denver Broncos Spread - Pro Style | 4-3 - 2-5 Head Coach: Malcolm Bishop PASSING C/A YDS TD INT F/L Brian Brown 24/33 309 3 0 0/0 - -/- - - - 0/0 RUSHING ATT YDS TD LNG F/L Amral Brown 20 69 0 8 1/1 Damani Laws 3 -3 1 1T 0/0 - - - - - 0/0 - - - - - 0/0 RECEIVING REC YDS TD DRP F/L Anthony Swanson 7 107 0 1 0/0 Marcus Holmes 4 60 0 0 0/0 Gavin Faulk 4 47 1 1 0/0 Cayden Reese 3 34 1 0 0/0 Amral Brown 3 31 1 0 0/0 D.J. Barnes 1 18 0 0 0/0 Damani Laws 2 12 0 0 0/0 DEFENSE T/TFL SCK INT/PD FF/FR TD/SFTY Oghale Adelangwe 3/1 1.5 0/0 0/0 0/0 Deyonte Davis 2/0 1.0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Eric Pritchett 2/0 0.5 0/0 0/0 0/0 Kahiau Afamasaga 6/0 - 0/0 0/0 0/0 Trent Haynes 6/0 - 0/0 0/0 0/0 Frederick Fain 5/0 - 0/0 0/0 0/0 D'Qwell Moore 4/0 - 0/0 0/0 0/0 Bob Ballard 4/0 - 0/0 0/0 0/0 KICKING FG XP Louis Dwyer 0/1 3/3 ADDITIONAL INFO CB Jamir Lacey allowed 5 consecutive receptions in the 4Q. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minnow Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 I always felt like the Steelers were an underrated team that would make splashes in the playoffs. TheLiberator and joedchi 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingo415 Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 Dammit, missed a FG, missed a 2pt conversion, and then let them walk down the field with 4 mins to go in the 4th. Balls. Good game, PIT. Had our number twice this season. Vega was a beast. Shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joedchi Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 2 minutes ago, bingo415 said: Dammit, missed a FG, missed a 2pt conversion, and then let them walk down the field with 4 mins to go in the 4th. Balls. Good game, PIT. Had our number twice this season. Vega was a beast. Shit. Good game to you guys and great season! I thought that missed XP was going to cost us. TheLiberator and Dr_Novella 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llamas Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 Rickyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy damn boyyyyyy TheLiberator 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahrowkeen Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 1 minute ago, joedchi said: Good game to you guys and great season! I thought that missed XP was going to cost us. Good luck going forward and congrats. That 72 rated rookie FS is going to be special. We were sure that matchup was going to net Holmes more than 60 yards. bingo415, TheLiberator and joedchi 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormstopper Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 Doubted during his rookie minicamp: Spoiler Traded away after his first season: Today: 21 touches for 164 yards, 3 TD, and Player of the Game to bring Pittsburgh to the AFC title game. We are witness to the Legend of Ricky Vega. joedchi, Dr_Novella, acewulf and 3 others 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llamas Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 1 minute ago, stormstopper said: Traded away after his first season: Specifically traded to a place where he’d get touches 👀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Novella Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 I am at once happy to see the doubters proven wrong again, but also annoyed at the prospect of Pittsburgh one game away from the Super Bowl. But in all seriousness, props to the Steelers, rooting for y'all but also fuck you. TheLiberator and joedchi 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acewulf Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 6 minutes ago, mahrowkeen said: Good luck going forward and congrats. That 72 rated rookie FS is going to be special. We were sure that matchup was going to net Holmes more than 60 yards. He was their lowest rated player? I chalk it up to the combo of Dane Wilson and the other rookie Julius Reese out deep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubada Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 What a great game. Brian Brown deserves better. Steelers D ate their OLine up. They had the best pass block rating in the league this season, their performance today would be 13th. Their run block rating of 8.01 would be last place. Hard to blame Amral. Carlos Washington is insane. Sad to see ILB Cameron Jonah 6-1 243 9 Hartnell College [Mike] [+2/C] 90 likely end his career on that note. Lowest grade of 1.28. I wonder what the lowest grade for a 90+ is. Been the defensive captain of the team since we could name captains in 2020. 5x Pro Bowler, 3x 1st team All-Pro. Was lined up at OLB this year. Vega too fast for him now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLiberator Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 9 minutes ago, acewulf said: He was their lowest rated player? I chalk it up to the combo of Dane Wilson and the other rookie Julius Reese out deep. He is better than Reese in our opinion right now, Reese has kinda been a bit of a letdown unfortunately but we still have faith in him through the playoffs. Everyone onboard the Vega hype train! Gg Denver, I didn't expect to get you guys twice this year but they were both great games. bingo415 and joedchi 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahrowkeen Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 8 minutes ago, acewulf said: He was their lowest rated player? I chalk it up to the combo of Dane Wilson and the other rookie Julius Reese out deep. Neat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piercewise1 Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 Pittsburgh through week 16: 7-8 record Never scored more than 27 points Longest win streak: 2 games (twice) 11th seed in AFC playoff race Pittsburgh since week 16: 4-0 record Hasn't scored less than 27 points (45, 27, 28, 29) Current win streak: 4 games Playing in AFC Championship Game Jumbo and VerifiedThing 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingo415 Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 3 minutes ago, Bubada said: What a great game. Brian Brown deserves better. Steelers D ate their OLine up. They had the best pass block rating in the league this season, their performance today would be 13th. Their run block rating of 8.01 would be last place. Hard to blame Amral. Carlos Washington is insane. Sad to see ILB Cameron Jonah 6-1 243 9 Hartnell College [Mike] [+2/C] 90 likely end his career on that note. Lowest grade of 1.28. I wonder what the lowest grade for a 90+ is. Been the defensive captain of the team since we could name captains in 2020. 5x Pro Bowler, 3x 1st team All-Pro. Was lined up at OLB this year. Vega too fast for him now. I agree with most of this. I'd say our OLine actually held up pretty well, all told, and that OUR DLine did some wrecking, too. Just couldn't defend in the back half of the field, apparently. And, yes, Jonah moving to OLB was an attempt to get our best players on the field, and he probably got too slow for that spot. He was great through the first 8 weeks of the season there, not sure he would hit the wall like he did. Brian Brown did deserve better, for sure. Came down to special teams, missed 2-pt, and poor pass D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahrowkeen Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 3 minutes ago, Bubada said: What a great game. Brian Brown deserves better. Steelers D ate their OLine up. They had the best pass block rating in the league this season, their performance today would be 13th. Their run block rating of 8.01 would be last place. Hard to blame Amral. Carlos Washington is insane. Sad to see ILB Cameron Jonah 6-1 243 9 Hartnell College [Mike] [+2/C] 90 likely end his career on that note. Lowest grade of 1.28. I wonder what the lowest grade for a 90+ is. Been the defensive captain of the team since we could name captains in 2020. 5x Pro Bowler, 3x 1st team All-Pro. Was lined up at OLB this year. Vega too fast for him now. OL being bad is confusing considering how they'd played all year. More shocked by the Steelers offensive output, but I guess Vega is going to that clutch in his player line. Great performance against a good DL. Would say front seven if Jonah didn't have dementia. Yeah, sucks to see Jonah go out like that. Inexplicably started to suck as the season went on despite being at OLB for the majority of it. All but 1 game, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cultur3 Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 Vega needs a pay raise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joedchi Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 3 minutes ago, cultur3 said: Vega needs a pay raise He just got one TheLiberator 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cultur3 Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 5 minutes ago, joedchi said: He just got one I know. He needs another one TheLiberator 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamzz Posted February 27, 2022 Report Share Posted February 27, 2022 Rough one for Denver. Titans vs Brian Brown and co. would've been a good matchup. No disrespect meant to the Steelers, they've had quite the run taking down Shea and Brown, but beating Tennessee will be a huge challenge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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