Quit worrying about the rebound the Pittsburgh Steelers made in the subsequent half.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Never mind the rebound the Pittsburgh Steelers made in the subsequent half.
Mike Tomlin had seen enough before that, and the fifteenth year mentor was so disturbed he began sidelining players looking for a flash.
The safeguard surrendered 176 yards racing to the Minnesota Vikings in the principal half. The hostile line permitted four sacks of Ben Roethlisberger before halftime.
With his group’s season on the edge, Tomlin made a move. He sidelined collector Chase Claypool following an insulting punishment in the main quarter. Inside linebacker Joe Schobert later wound up on the seat, with youngster Buddy Johnson dominating.
Fourth-year linebacker Marcus Allen, who had just played uncommon groups the entire season, likewise got his first snaps on guard.
We won’t be modest with regards to turning the stones over, Tomlin said after Pittsburgh’s 36-28 misfortune Thursday night, when another final quarter rebound missed the mark.
Tomlin said more changes could be coming. His greatest places of accentuation: the hostile and guarded lines that were mistreated as Minnesota took a 23-0 halftime lead.
We’re not whipping sufficient tail, Tomlin said. We’re not striking enough. We’re not making the heap fall the correct way enough. Thus, I’d be delinquent; I’d give that bunch a raw deal, assuming I didn’t take a gander at all choices. Amigo’s a choice that has worked, so we played him a few.
Roethlisberger tossed for 240 yards and three scores in the subsequent half; however Pittsburgh fell behind 29-0 and gave up 242 yards hurrying to the Vikings. Dalvin Cook ran for 205 yards, the most the Steelers have permitted since Jacksonville’s Fred Taylor scrambled for 234 out of 2000. That is the most ridiculously ever by a restricting rusher against the Steelers.
A glad establishment based on its solidness and threatening guard, Pittsburgh entered play surrendering 4.8 yards per convey to rivals, the most noticeably terrible imprint in the NFL.
Cook, problematic before the game in light of a shoulder injury, cut the Steelers over and again. He went through totally open openings, and his initial three conveys went for 54 yards.
First half was awful, guarded end Cameron Heyward said. Folks weren’t filling. We weren’t getting off blocks. We weren’t handling. And so on, we treated it terribly.
Pittsburgh began the game without corner back Joe Haden. Guarded lineman Stephon Tuitt has been out the entire season and protective lineman Tyson Alualu has been out since Week 2.
Star outside linebacker T.J. Watt left the game in the second quarter with a crotch injury, and linebacker Alex Highsmith was lost to a knee injury.
It’s anything but a reason, Heyward said. Each man that signs up in that storage space to play football has something important to take care of, including myself. In case we can’t take care of business, we shouldn’t be in there.
Tomlin concurs, and he could be looking somewhere else along the lines before the Steelers have the Tennessee Titans in 10 days.
We were JV again this evening and I’m hyping front and center on the two sides, he said. We must be superior to we were. We’ll give each stone. We have a drawn out week coming up among this and our next one. We’ll utilize that time and survey what we’re doing, however who we’re doing it with.