{"id":56750,"date":"2025-12-01T02:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/56750\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T02:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:27:17","slug":"patrick-queens-late-hit-on-josh-allen-gave-bills-a-spark-says-hc-sean-mcdermott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/56750\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Queen&#8217;s Late Hit On Josh Allen Gave Bills A &#8216;Spark,&#8217; Says HC Sean McDermott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers weren\u2019t good enough against the Buffalo Bills Sunday. While they had the lead to end the first half, they ended up getting crushed. The game looked like it was over in the third quarter. Bills head coach Sean McDermott credited Patrick Queen\u2019s late hit on Josh Allen for firing Buffalo up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt definitely caused a stir on our sideline,\u201d McDermott said <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuffaloBills\/status\/1995289954583470395\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after the Bills\u2019 26-7 win via the team\u2019s Twitter.<\/a> \u201cThat was nose-to-nose, nobody backing down. They weren\u2019t backing down, we weren\u2019t backing down. We came to play. You hit our quarterback like that, you\u2019re gonna spark our team a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The play in question came with around three minutes left in the second quarter. Allen escaped the pocket and avoided the grasp of T.J. Watt. Then, he went to slide, and Queen laid a shoulder into him while he was on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>While the play didn\u2019t draw a flag, it\u2019s a clear example of a late hit. Of course, that ticked off the Bills, and they took their anger out on the Steelers for the rest of the game.<\/p>\n<p>There weren\u2019t many bright spots for Pittsburgh after that. The Bills went on to kick a field goal on that drive, which essentially ended the first half. Following that, they siezed control of the game. Joey Bosa recorded a strip-sack on Aaron Rodgers that was returned for a touchdown on the first play of the game, and Mason Rudolph was intercepted on the Steelers\u2019 next drive while Rodgers was getting treated for a bloody nose.<\/p>\n<p>It was basically as ugly as it could get for the Steelers, and McDermott points to Queen\u2019s play as the turning point. Something similar happened in the Steelers\u2019 previous game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steelersdepot.com\/2025\/11\/jalen-ramseys-sideline-hit-on-caleb-williams-gave-bears-another-spark-hc-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Ramsey delivered a big hit to<\/a> Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams in Week 12. However, it wasn\u2019t as egregious as Queen\u2019s hit on Allen. Williams was still in bounds, and Ramsey pushed him out of bounds. It was a completely legal play.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean it didn\u2019t fire the Bears up. And HC Ben Johnson said that hit gave the Bears \u201canother spark.\u201d That\u2019s basically the same thing that McDermott said.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s another example of the Steelers\u2019 defense hurting itself. That unit has been bad this year. The Bills ran for almost 250 yards Sunday, completely dominating the Steelers on the ground. Things have been rough for the team recently, and if the Steelers want to make the playoffs, they\u2019re going to need to turn things around fast.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers weren\u2019t good enough against the Buffalo Bills Sunday. 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