Pittsburgh Steelers 23, Indianapolis Colts 20
Thoughts, gentlemen?
Worried? Why yes, Grey Scherl is: I know that at the end of the day it matters who gets the win and who gets the loss, not so much what the score it. But Indianapolis has been having a below sub-par season without Peyton Manning, and while I guess it’s possible that this is the week that the offense clicked, I see this game as more telling of the Steelers. Unless the Colts have a sudden Kerry Collins driven turnaround, the Steelers just let up more points than the Texans or Browns. So is this game more telling for the Colts or the Steelers? Are the Colts getting better, or are the Steelers getting worse?
Our own Joe Violet is concerned with the Steelers: I also saw a major problem with the Steelers this week: Big Ben’s going to take a pounding without a working front line. You think Flozell Adams might be getting a call this week? Hmmm…
But Daniels pshaws away the concern: The Colts put up a good fight here, but they need a quarterback. Maybe at a certain point we can start blaming Peyton for not giving them enough notice that they could have enticed a better quarterback than Kerry Collins out of retirement (Warner, for instance). The Steelers win ugly, that’s what they do, so it’s hard to claim that this win was any different than a normal Steelers win.
My Take: The Steelers are the most talented team in football, but really seem to lack focus. That has to fall on Coach Mike Tomlin, right? Along with the Bears and Jets, the Steelers are also one of the several top teams to lack a top notch, or, really, even good offensive line. Unless they get that settled, Ben’s going to continue to be knocked around big time. Add in a weak secondary that’s showing even Troy Polamalu can’t be everywhere at once, and, well, as talented as they are other places, they can’t hope to really compete for the title with these wholes without full effort. The Colts, meanwhile, are a prideful veteran club who’ve been hearing how terrible they are. On national television, they came to play.
