There’s still a tomorrow for the Pittsburgh Steelers, all they could have asked for only days ago. There’s also a next week for the Baltimore Ravens, or exactly what they didn’t want.

Jeff Reed’s 38-yard field goal put Pittsburgh ahead with 5:25 remaining and the Steelers finally preserved a fourth-quarter lead, beating rival Baltimore 23-20 on Sunday to further jumble the complicated AFC postseason race.

The Steelers (8-7), their season seemingly ended by a late-season five-game losing streak, followed their last-second 37-36 victory over Green Bay with another tight victory helped by Reed’s three field goals and Rashard Mendenhall’s touchdown run. Now, their final regular season game at Miami will have some meaning, although the Steelers could win and still be eliminated.

According to the NFL, the Ravens (8-7) will clinch an AFC wild-card playoff spot if they win Sunday at Oakland. The Steelers must win and hope for some losses as the Jets, Ravens, Broncos, Texans and Pittsburgh all go into the final weekend with the same record.

“It’s been do or die for us for a while, fighting to the last minute. We’re like the cardiac kids,” said Ben Roethlisberger, who threw a touchdown pass while becoming the first Steelers quarterback to pass for 4,000 yards in a season.

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Steelers outside linebacker James Harrison today was named AFC Defensive Player of the Month for October.

Harrison, last year’s NFL Defensive Player of the Year, recorded 25 tackles, seven sacks, two forced fumbles and one fumble recovery in four victories.

Harrison is tied for second in the league with eight sacks. He recorded two sacks in last Sunday’s 27-17 win against Minnesota at Heinz Field.


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Troy Polamalu called an audible Sunday, and it helped make for a triumphant return for the Steelers’ strong safety.

Polamalu ditched the knee brace he wore during pregame warm-ups yesterday. Not coincidentally, the five-time Pro Bowler made a key interception as well as four tackles in the Steelers’ 27-14 win over the Cleveland Browns at Heinz Field.

Polamalu had worn a brace last week in practice to protect his left knee, which he sprained in the Steelers’ season opener Sept. 10.

“I tried going in warm-ups with the brace, and it just wasn’t going to happen,” Polamalu said. “There was no way I could keep up with any receiver, so I kind of gambled a little bit and thank God it worked out.”


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Hall of Fame linebacker Jack Ham telephoned yesterday on another matter. Eventually, the conversation turned to his old team. Who doesn’t sit up and listen when one of the NFL’s all-time greats talks about the Steelers? Without prompting, Ham brought up “that little No. 21.” He gushed about third-down back Mewelde Moore.

“He’s a guy who’s really stood out for me because he’s such a productive player,” Ham said. “When they need plays made out of the backfield, he makes them. He just does all the right things out there.”

Turns out Ham isn’t the only member of the Moore fan club.

It’s a sizable group inside the Steelers’ locker room.

“This guy is a professional,” coach Mike Tomlin said.

“A rare cat,” offensive coordinator Bruce Arians called Moore because of his “unique skill set” — his ability to block blitzing linebackers and beat linebackers, safeties and even the occasional cornerback on pass routes.

“The Chain Mover, we call him,” quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said.

It’s hard to say Moore is the most reliable player on a team that has tight end Heath Miller and defensive end Aaron Smith, whose performances always seem to be somewhere between terrific and extraordinary. But he would be in the top five. Earlier in the season, when some NFL scouts were knocking starting running back Willie Parker for losing a step and backup Rashard Mendenhall for being a No. 1 draft bust, they said Moore is too important on third downs and in the two-minute offense for the Steelers to use him in the featured role even if he might be their best runner.

Want a guy to pick up that blitzer looking to knock Roethlisberger into next week? Moore is your man. “He’s so good at it that I don’t ever have to worry about his guy because I know he’s going to block him,” Roethlisberger said.

Need a man to catch a 9-yard pass on third-and-8? Moore is the guy, at least when wide receiver Hines Ward and Miller are covered. Five of his 11 catches this season have gone for first downs, including the third-and-4 play he turned into a 19-yard touchdown against the San Diego Chargers Sunday night by bowling over safeties Eric Weddle and Steve Gregory. Seventeen of his 40 catches last season produced first downs. “He just understands the passing game so well,” said Ham, who isn’t too old to remember how difficult it was for him, as an outside linebacker, to cover that kind of back. “He doesn’t just flare out to the side. He understands how to get open, and he’s got good body control and good hands to go with it. A lot of running backs don’t have all that.”


Click here to read the full article – By Ron Cook of Post-gazette.com

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Since when did the Steelers go all Tony Gonzalez-Antonio Gates-Dallas Clark in their passing game?


This is a team that has three tight ends on its roster and treats them as the literal definition describes them. They are tight ends, players who line up next to the tackles, block and serve as a bailout target for a quarterback in trouble.

Gonzalez caught 96 passes as Kansas City’s tight end last season before he moved to Atlanta this year. Clark caught 77 last season with Indianapolis and has 26 this season. Antonio Gates, whose career high is 89 receptions, has 24 with San Diego through four games.

Then, there’s Heath Miller of the Steelers. He, too, had a career high last season, 48 receptions. Those were the most by a Steelers tight end in 15 years, since Eric Green set a team record at the position with 63 in ‘93.


Click here to read the full article – By Ed Bouchette of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Big Ben did a lot of talking, but no wrestling in his off-day appearance at Monday Night Raw last night.

Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger laid the verbal smack down as guest host of World Wrestling Entertainment’s cable television show that was broadcast live last night from Wilkes-Barre.

Since Roethlisberger’s involvement with the wrestling show was announced last week, his participation was questioned because it came in the middle of the Steelers’ season. But Monday is the players’ day off, and Big Ben used the occasion to take his offensive linemen with him to Wilkes-Barre.

Max Starks, Willie Colon, Trai Essex, Justin Hartwig, Chris Kemoeatu and injured lineman Darnell Stapleton helped their quarterback fend off a challenge by the Big Show and Chris Jericho midway through the two-hour scripted program.


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Hines Ward became the fifth receiver to surpass 10,000 receiving yards with one team, but the achievement was dampened by his Pittsburgh Steelers’ sobering 23-20 loss to the AFC North rival Cincinnati Bengals last Sunday.

Earlier, Ward acknowledged 10,000 receiving yards as “a huge honor.”

He became the 21st player to eclipse 10,000 yards and 800 receptions.

Compare his 818 receptions to Michael Irvin, who had 750 receptions for 11,904 yards. Irvin earned 2007 Hall of Fame enshrinement for helping the Dallas Cowboys win three Super Bowls during his 12-year career.

Ward has helped the Steelers win two titles during his 12-season career.

“People ask me about (the) Hall of Fame,” Ward says. “Michael Irvin was the guy I looked up to, the most recent receiver who went into the Hall. He did it with a Hall of Fame quarterback in Troy Aikman. … Yes, he was prolific and won three Super Bowls. He’s a great wideout, great competitor. Here I am, and I play in Pittsburgh, and I got him in catches and touchdowns (72 to 65). It’s kind of amazing.”

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The Steelers have brought back a familiar face to help their running game — fullback Carey Davis, a former two-year starter who was waived during the final cut of training camp, sources told the Post-Gazette.


Davis was signed after rookie fullback Frank Summers developed a back problem that Coach Mike Tomlin termed “mysterious” and rookie tight end David Johnson sustained a high-ankle sprain against the Cincinnati Bengals — an injury that could keep him out several weeks.

Davis started 11 games the past two seasons with the Steelers and played in 37 games in three seasons, including six playoff games. He had 12 carries for 35 yards and caught five passes for 27 yards in 14 games last season.

Click here to read the full article – By Ed Bouchette and Gerry Dulac of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Defensive end Brett Keisel signed a five-year contract on Monday, becoming the eighth player to reach a new deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers since they won the Super Bowl in February.


Because the Steelers have a policy of not negotiating during the regular season, Keisel is expected to be the final player signed before the Sept. 10 opener against Tennessee. Keisel was to have made $3.25 million in the final year of his contract this season.
Terms of a deal that runs through the 2013 season, when Keisel turns 35, were not immediately available


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