After 急速な／放蕩な start, Steelers' 罪／違反 continues its 低迷
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - The Pittsburgh Steelers finally 設立する the end zone in the first ４半期/4分の1 but couldn´t get 支援する there until the game was out of reach.
Pittsburgh failed to 出資する on its quick start and fell 27-17 to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday for its third 連続した loss. Since 開始 the 2020 season with 11 straight victories, the Steelers have dropped eight of their last 10 games.
"We have had some 負かす／撃墜する years, (but) it´s probably never started like this," quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said. "What a challenge for us. I think this is going to 実験（する） us all, that we need to look in the mirror and we need to 人物／姿／数字 out what path we want to take, and I know what I´m going to do."
The Steelers (1-3) began the season with a surprising 23-16 victory at Buffalo, which hasn´t lost since. But the Steelers couldn´t build on that 勢い thanks 大部分は to a 不振の 罪／違反.
Pittsburgh hasn´t 越えるd 17 points in any of its last three games.
"We won´t blink," coach マイク Tomlin said. "We just need to continue to get better."
Pittsburgh Steelers' Ben Roethlisberger 反応するs as he walks off the field during the second half of an NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Matt Ludtke)
早期に on, the Steelers looked like they had 解決するd some of their 問題／発行するs.
Roethlisberger went 4 of 4 for 59 yards on the game´s 開始 series and capped the 運動 with a 45-yard touchdown pass to Diontae Johnson 負かす／撃墜する the 権利 sideline. That ended a string of 11 straight games in which Pittsburgh´s 罪／違反 failed to 得点する／非難する／２０ any first-４半期/4分の1 points.
The long strike to Johnson also was the 400th of Roethlisberger´s career, making him just the eighth player to reach that milestone.
But the 罪／違反 never really got going again.
"We don´t want to go around pointing fingers or 非難するing," said JuJu Smith-Schuster, who caught two passes for 11 yards. "I think for us is like, we´re in the ざん壕s and there´s no need for all that. I think what we´re doing 権利 now is that we´re going to go 支援する, look at the film, look at the tape. We´re going to look over it and just learn from it. That´s all we can do."
The Steelers didn´t get another touchdown until 新人 Najee Harris 得点する／非難する／２０d from 1 yard out with 4:04 left in the game.
After that strong 開始 series, the 39-year-old Roethlisberger - who has rarely looked to throw 深い this season - was 22 of 36 for 173 yards with an interception. Kingsley Keke 解雇（する）d Roethlisberger and 軍隊d a fumble that Kenny Clark 回復するd at Pittsburgh´s 23-yard line 早期に in the second ４半期/4分の1, setting up the touchdown that put Green Bay ahead for good.
The Steelers got a 堅い break late in the second ４半期/4分の1 that could have turned the 勢い in their 好意.
Green Bay led 14-10 in the の近くにing seconds of the first half when Pittsburgh´s Minkah Fitzpatrick 封鎖するd Mas on Crosby´s 31-yard field-goal 試みる／企てる and returned it 75 yards for an 明らかな go-ahead touchdown. The play was 無効にするd when 公式の／役人s 支配するd Joe Haden had jumped offside.
Pittsburgh needed that 肉親，親類d of game-changing play on special teams because its 罪／違反 isn´t 配達するing.
After the Packers built a 27-10 lead, the Steelers reached Green Bay 領土 but failed to 得点する／非難する／２０ on three straight second-half 運動s. Twice they lost the ball on 負かす／撃墜するs. The other time, they 選ぶd to punt after a 誤った-start 刑罰，罰則 had them 直面するing fourth-and-9.
The Steelers are ありそうもない to escape the cellar in the 堅い AFC North until their 罪／違反 starts producing the way it has in the past.
"I´m going to come out tomorrow and give it everything that I have and do the same thing this week and get ready to go," Roethlisberger said. "I just hope and pray that everyone else in that locker room does the same thing, because I think 潜在的に it can be 平易な to やめる in a 状況／情勢 like this, and I don´t think we have that in this locker room."
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Green Bay Packers' De'Vondre Campbell stops Pittsburgh Steelers' JuJu Smith-Schuster from getting a first 負かす／撃墜する during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Matt Ludtke)
Pittsburgh Steelers' JuJu Smith-Schuster catches a pass with Green Bay Packers' De'Vondre Campbell defending during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Matt Ludtke)
Pittsburgh Steelers' Najee Harris runs during the second half of an NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Matt Ludtke)
