Through three quarters, Pittsburgh generated a measly 90 yards and seven first downs. They finished with 166 yards and 10 first downs.<\/p>\n
Mind you, this depressing offensive outing came against a Bills team that had allowed an average of 28.3 points per game over the past three contests. The ’85 Bears they ain’t.<\/p>\n
Rodgers was bloodied on the first play of the third quarter, on a down in which the 41-year-old tried to extend the play, got sacked, lost the ball and wound up with a gash on his nose. Rodgers said after the loss he hopes it’s not broken.<\/p>\n
Rodgers went 10-of-21 for 117 passing yards and a 65.0 passer rating on Sunday — replaced by Mason Rudolph<\/a> for one drive in the third quarter and the final possession (Rudolph: 0-3, 1 INT).<\/p>\n The four-time NFL MVP, who looked like a shell of himself late and can’t stretch the field with this passing attack, suggested two ways to get everyone on the same page to smooth out the defensive issues.<\/p>\n “When there’s film sessions, everybody shows up, and when I check to a route, you do the right route,” Rodgers said. “… We have our meetings every week. We have other opportunities outside of the facility, and [I] look forward to seeing all the boys there.”<\/p>\n The seven points scored were the fewest for the Steelers in a game since a 22-6 loss in Week 4, 2023, to the Houston Texans on the road, with Kenny Pickett<\/a> under center.<\/p>\n Things got so bad in Pittsburgh that fans actually booed during the playing of Renegade, and the “Fire Tomlin” chants reverberated around the stadium.<\/p>\n “Man, I share their frustration tonight,” coach Mike Tomlin said. “We didn’t do enough, and that’s just the reality of it…. I know how restless and frustrated I was, and so I assume they were in the same state we were in.”<\/p>\n Even as this feels like the low point of the lengthy Tomlin era, the Steelers remain tied atop the AFC North<\/a> at 6-6, with a Week 14 date<\/a> against the Baltimore Ravens for the division lead. Things can still turn around — if the offense can score some points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Through three quarters, Pittsburgh generated a measly 90 yards and seven first downs. They finished with 166 yards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3269,3265,6621,139,3266,73,75,74,1833,3267],"class_list":["post-48987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-news","tag-no-minute","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-regular-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48987","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=48987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}