It wasn\u2019t the prettiest victory, but the Steelers have started the Mike McCarthy era with a victory.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh bested Atlanta 20-13 with some solid defense \u2014 including a game-changing play by T.J. Watt.<\/p>\n
Early in the fourth quarter, Watt picked off a pass behind the line of scrimmage and returned it for a 35-yard touchdown to put Pittsburgh up 20-10.<\/p>\n
It was Watt\u2019s 10th career interception but his first pick-six.<\/p>\n
While Nick Folk hit a 43-yard field goal to cut Pittsburgh\u2019s lead to seven, the Falcons could not get any more points. Darnell Washington helped bring the game to a close with a nasty stiff-arm on a 15-yard reception on third-and-3 late in the fourth quarter. With Atlanta out of timeouts, Jaylen Warren put it away with a 9-yard run to bring the clock to the two-minute warning.<\/p>\n
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers finished 24-of-40 for 221 yards with a touchdown. Pittsburgh was just 3-of-13 on third down but had 264 yards.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t a banner day for Atlanta\u2019s offense either, with Cooper Rush finishing 12-of-22 for 143 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions. Bijan Robinson was the major power for the offense, taking 21 carries for 83 yards and catching eight passes for 90 yards with a touchdown.<\/p>\n
At 1-0, the Steelers will be on the road to face the Patriots next week.<\/p>\n
The 0-1 Falcons will be at home to play the division-rival Panthers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn\u2019t the prettiest victory, but the Steelers have started the Mike McCarthy era with a victory. Pittsburgh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-285609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}