In the first quarter of Thursday night\u2019s loss to the Bengals, Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers handed the ball off to running back Jaylen Warren, who pitched it back to Rodgers for a flea flicker. But Rodgers didn\u2019t have any receivers open and just threw the ball away, then yelled at Warren after the play. Clearly, the Steelers\u2019 offense was not on the same page.<\/p>\n
After the game, the Steelers still weren\u2019t on the same page.<\/p>\n
When Rodgers was asked about it, he said the play call was not a flea flicker.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t supposed to be a flea flicker. We weren\u2019t on the same page,\u201d Rodgers said.<\/p>\n
But Steelers coach Mike Tomlin was also asked after the game if a flea flicker was called, and Tomlin answered, \u201cIt was.\u201d<\/p>\n
So what happened? There was clearly a breakdown in communication somewhere between the play that was called into Rodgers\u2019 helmet and the play that was executed on the field, but unless we get further explanation from the Steelers, no one can be completely sure what exactly went wrong on the broken play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the first quarter of Thursday night\u2019s loss to the Bengals, Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers handed the ball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-231372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}