TOM BRADY AND the New England Patriots handed the Pittsburgh Steelers an embarrassing 33-3 loss in the NFL last night.
Brady threw for 341 yards and three touchdowns on 24-of-36 passing while Ben Roethlisberger could not get anything going for Pittsburgh.
The win showed how dangerous New England can be, even without their newest star. On the other hand, the loss exposed what can happen when teams lose their biggest names.
It was all Patriots, all night
For anyone expecting a high scoring affair on both sides, they were disappointed. It was all Patriots, all night as they built a 20-0 lead at half-time and later extended it to a 30-point victory.
Brady once again escaped the clutches of Father Time and the Steelers’ defense all at once.
“We made some big plays on the pass game which always helps,” Brady told the NBC broadcast after the game.
Brady’s passes included a 58-yard touchdown to Phillip Dorsett and a 42-yarder to Josh Gordon.
Brady was so effective, he joined elite company. He now has 88 career 300-plus-yard passing games for the third most of all-time behind only Peyton Manning (93) and Drew Brees (115).
The Steelers’ offense struggled with their veteran leading new stars
Pittsburgh lost some of their biggest names in the offseason with Antonio Brown and Le’Veon Bell both leaving. The Steelers hoped for a younger core of players to step up in wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster and running back James Conner led by the veteran quarterback Roethlisberger.
But Big Ben was big bad and neither the pass or run ever got going. Even in the red zone, Roethlisberger could not get the Steelers a touchdown. At the start of the third quarter, Pittsburgh had to opt for a field goal after coming up short at the Patriots’ one-yard line.
Roethlisberger finished 27-of-47 passing for 276 yards with one interception. Smith-Schuster led all receivers with six receptions for 78 yards and Conner had 21 yards on 10 carries.
The Patriots offense could be even more dangerous, starting next week
Do the Patriots even need Brown? Certainly not, but they will be an even more dangerous team with the seven-time Pro Bowl player.
Brown, who joined New England just hours after getting released by the Oakland Raiders to end a training-camp long saga, was not eligible to play on Sunday but is “excited to get to work” and that will certainly be exciting to watch.
“We’re excited to have him,” Brady said after the game.
New England had their eyes on Brown when he first expressed his desire to leave Pittsburgh, but the Steelers did not want to trade him to AFC rivals.
But in the end, as per usual, the Patriots won.
And long may it last.
As a result of UFC spin and brainwashing the regular punter is led to believe that once these fighters have performed well in the UFC then they are the real deal. Whilst if you look beyond the propaganda that they over load us, where they portray an average fighter to be a world beater, you’ll see that there are many other excellent fighters in different organisations such as the ones mentioned above.
David if you understand mma and martial arts, judging from your inarticulate comment you might not, you will understand that’s it’s not the fact that these fighters, namely mcgregor and Duffy, won but it’s the style in which they won. They quickly and effectively walked down or knocked out opponents in a short space of time. I don’t think anyone is singing paddy Houlihan, Cathal Pendred or Seary’s praises as highly as the other two but we know these Irish lads have more work to do and we support them because they are athletes that work hard at their craft which is more than can be said about the unintelligible bile coming from your mouth.
“Only six countries have ever been home to a UFC champion, and this small island is a few months away from being the seventh”
Let’s not get too hasty!!!
That’s obviously not meant to be an assumption of victory, merely a statement that we COULD have a UFC champion in a few months. Hopefully I haven’t upset Jose Aldo to the extent that he’ll have this article pinned to his fridge until July.
Six countries? That’s a mad stat. Poland, Brazil, USA, Canada, Belarus, Netherlands. That it?