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While it is always a good thing to know how to lose well Pittsburgh Steelers Womens Hoodie , we shouldn’t lose sight of this simple truth- winning is better than losing. Here are ten thoughts I think I thought while watching the Steelers destroy the Atlanta (Edie) Falcos.1. I knew it was going to go well when I waited at the light to turn left into Ruffalo Child Sings, and as the light turned green, the car opposite me waved me through. My face lit up and I said to my beautiful wife, “HA! A Pittsburgh left, right here in Indiana.” Unclear on a Pittsburgh left? First, you wouldn’t understand- it’s a yinzer thing. Second, the brainiacs at wiki have you covered.2. I explained to my beloved wife that it was likely to be a shootout, both teams having high powered offenses, and woeful defenses. I was half right. Not only did our defense have a good game (with rules change “inflation,” giving up 17 points today is like giving up 7 back in the day) but they had a good game against a incredibly potent offense. I’m not saying we’re ready to compete for the Super Bowl right now, but the defense really does continue to improve.3. When I was a little kid I couldn’t understand why they called it Franco’s Italian army. It was obvious to me he wasn’t Italian. He was Irish, Frank O’Harris. Yes, during the current games my mind can wander back to older times.4. It was great to see Bud and TJ play “Meet at the Quarterback.” They both need to do well for the defense to succeed. In fact, it was great to see consistent pressure. I know Matty Ice moves at the speed of a glacier, but he had largely been kept off his back this season, until he came to Pittsburgh.5. I wondered if Ben’s pick was not so much the fruit of a failure to realize how much coverage he was throwing into, or too much confidence in combat catches, and was instead the fruit of a weakened arm and bad form, that he has trying to throw it out of the end zone. On the other hand, maybe he was trying for the touchdown, thinking the combat catch odds were better than the odds on a chip shot kick from Boswell.6. Hoping the choreographed celebrations go away soon. The constant need to one-up the previous celebration has led to dumb ideas and distractions from the game. I loved JuJu’s TD catch. That, not his pantomime of giving birth, is what I want to remember from that play.7. James Conner. James Conner. James Conner. I’ll never misspell your name again, because I kept seeing the back of your jersey at the end of big plays. Strong indeed. 8. It was quite encouraging to see the great plays spread around so much, on both sides of the ball. It is just possible that more important than transcendent players like Bell and Shazier, what we really need is a good team playing together, and on the same page.9. Last week Joe Haden looked like that former cornerback from the glory days that we used to call Ron Rubber-Ball Johnson. He earned the name by constantly bouncing off receivers, trying to deliver the big hurt Womens Customized Pittsburgh Steelers Jerseys , instead of delivering the tackle. Haden, against Baltimore lowered his shoulder, and pinged off several ball carriers. When he managed to be in on a tackle against Atlanta, he tackled like the professional he is. He had few opportunities this week because he was busy being a tour guide introducing Julio Jones to Revis Island, now under new management. Seriously. Julio Jones is quite good at playing football. And Joe Haden owned him.10. I won’t be taking the family to the Bengals game in Cincinnati this year as we did last year. Instead I’m taking my dear wife to a log cabin to celebrate our second anniversary. Of course, on the way there we’ll swing by Ruffalo Child Sings for some burgers and the game.Antonio Brown needs to prove he’s not just another selfish wide receiver If there was one MVP for the Steelers’ defense after its embarrassing performance in a42-37 loss to the Chiefs at Heinz Field on Sunday, it was receiver Antonio Brown.Why? Because, instead of talking about the shellacking Keith Butler’s unit received at the hands of Chiefs’ quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Friends, the main focus on Monday was on Brown and his in-game and post-game antics....again. As always with Brown, these antics had to do with his apparent dissatisfaction with not getting the football thrown his way nearly enough. At one point in the game, Brown was seen arguing with someone on the Steelers’ sideline—presumably new offensive coordinator Randy Fichtner. Given the score and the way Fichtner’s crew was functioning—Pittsburgh’s offense produced 475 yards and fivetouchdowns on the day—Brown may have picked the wrong coordinator to have a verbal confrontation with. But Brown didn’t pick the wrong coordinator, and that’s the problem.

After the game, journalists were quick to point out how fast Brown was when exitingthe locker room to avoid their questions; this was probably why those same reporters had no problem commenting on Brown’s body language throughout the course of the game—as his teammates greeted and celebrated with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger following his three-yard touchdown run to pull Pittsburgh to within five points late in the fourth quarter, Brown reportedly sulked to the sideline and wasn’t very supportive. And what piece of Steelers’ drama would be complete without a touch of social media turmoil thrown in for good measure? On Monday, a former Steelers employee, Ryan Scarpino, tweeted: “AB needs to thank his lucky stars, because he was drafted by a team that had Big Ben. And Ben got AB paid. You know darn well he wouldn’t put up those numbers for other teams.” Brown’s response: “Trade me let’s find out.” Yikes. Most people in the know are pretty adamant when they talk of Brown’s selfish nature, and that he puts his own statistics above the team’s success. And as much as I’ve defended Brown in the past for things like arriving to training camp in a helicopter, it’s hard to come up with a defense when people accuse him of being selfish.The incident in Week 4 of 2017, when Brown threw a Gatorade bucket on the sidelines out of frustration, drew the headlines afterwards — people are still talking about that flare-up in a game against the Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium, almost a year later. However, I don’t pay much attention to sideline outbursts in the middle of football games—including the latest one involving Brown this past Sunday. What drew my attention came hours after the Ravens game, when Brown took to social media to post a video of him and his young child. During the video, Brown says, “Tell them to throw Daddy the football.” In the heat of the moment during a football game is one thing — Roethlisberger didn’t see a wide-open Brown on a play where No. 84 would have scored easily. But to hold onto that resentment hours after the game is over — and a 17-point win, to boot — is the act of a selfish football player...just another diva receiver.Look www.steelerscheapshops.com , I get the mentality of a receiver. People criticize and mock the great ones for wanting the football all the time and caring too much about their own stats, but those same people will use a receiver’s career stats against him when determining things like his Hall of Fame status. I’ll bet it’s quite frustrating battling trash-talking cornerbacks for sixty minutes. You work your tail off, you think you’re getting open, and then you look over and see another guy receiving the focus and the stats. Brown has said on more than one occasion that winning a championship is the most important thing to him. If that’s true, then he, more than anyone, should realize how valuable he is simply by drawing so much focus from opposing defenses. Brown is on an unprecedented run of excellence that has him on par with Jerry Rice at a similar stage of his Hall of Fame career. In 2017, Brown not only surpassed 100 receptions for the fifth-straight season, he led the NFL in receiving yards despite missing the final 10 quarters with a calf injury. Coming into 2018, Brown had to know he would continue to draw double- and triple-teams, something that was illustrated quite clearly during Roethlisberger’s first of three interceptions in the 21-21 tie with the Browns in Week 1.On Sunday, second-year receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster caught 13 passes for 121 yards and a touchdown, marking the third-straight regular season game in which he surpassed 100 yards receiving. Meanwhile, tight end Jesse James caught five passes for an astounding 138 yards and a score. Both receivers were often wide-open, illustrating the high price opposing defenses may soon have to pay for continuing to focus so much attention on Brown. This can only help the passing game and the offense as a whole. The last thing Brown should want is for his quarterback to feel pressured into getting him his targets, while ignoring the more wide-open targets that have proven to be trustworthy and productive. Yet, through his continued actions, you get the feeling Brown would rather his quarterback feel compelled to get him his targets, even if it puts the offense at risk. The crazy thing is, Brown has been targeted 33 times through two games, and his 18 catches put him on pace for a career-best 144. Finally, when his career is over and the dust settles, Antonio Brown will be remembered with fondness. But if he doesn’t start proving to the football world that winning a championship really is his top priority, he’ll be remembered more for his Terrell Owens-like actions than his Jerry Rice-like greatness. In other words, just another diva receiver.