The defense and Boswell played great. Harris, Washington and Pickens had good games. Waitman punted great today
The Good: A Win is a win and first place by 1.5 games. Game was won on turnovers and Pittsburgh was +2. . JPJ game winning tackle on the 2 point try. I'm giving DW a pass that ball needed to be catchable, but he did seem surprised by the throw. But he's becoming a receiving threat. Bozwell is money, best kicker in the NFL. The Bad: Red Zone offense. Throwing the ball to Calvin Austin on 50/50 balls. Mike Williams zero targets. Wilson held the ball too long resulting in sacks. Broderick with 2 holding calls, but let's be honest they weren't egregious. The issue is that he has a rep of being a holder, so the flag comes out because the refs are paying attention to his hand placement. The Ugly: The Cleveland game is on the road, more injuries to deal with on a short week in a trap game. The Browns are out to play spoilers as their season is already lost.
Well, I could only watch highlights and gametracker so not too much to say. The good is that they won and they have a 1.5 game lead over the only team in the north that could really challenge them. Harris had some big runs and receptions. He ran hard too. Pickens had some good plays too. Washington is getting more involved. Bad red zone play and bad 3rd down conversation rate. The INT was terrible. Should just kick a FG there and avoid the drama. Not much ugly. Just a standard Ravens Steelers match Short week and a road game in Cleveland. The Browns would love to spoil this thing but I still think 9-2 will be the record come Friday morning.
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And for those who missed the game, the 3 key D plays were obviously the LB stripping the ball away, Wilson's play was on a level we have not seen since Ryan Shazier. But the hidden key plays were made by both Dean Lowry and Cam Heyward with batted balls at the line of scrimmage. In fact other than a few runs, they contained No Action Jackson from running down the field. Just saw a graph on Jackson, This was on GMF, Peter Schraeger put it up on the board. Lamar Jackson's numbers look like this, in a nutshell. Vs. Pittsburgh his wins, TD/INT ratio, rushing yards, passer rating, and sacks taken all rank dead last of all the 32 teams he has played. In other words, Mike Tomlin should be paying rent to be in his head.
