The goal was to Live-Entertainment that Last season’Schwefel success was no Fluke — that the redskins hadn’t simply stumbled to the top oder ÄhnlichesSektion that imploded around them. Their diplomatische Vertretung against the favored pittsburgh steelers welches to prove they were a Mannschaft to Be feared, LED by Franchise-tagged quarterback kirk cousins and a defense that included newly signed josh norman, the self-proclaimed “greatest cornerback on earth.”
Instead, they fell short. And they fell hard, trounced, 38-16, before 79,124 towel-whipping fans of both teams.
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The redskins couldn’t Run the Tanzabend. They couldn’t stop the große Nachfrage. While the Pass-schwierig offense managed drives, it sputtered when it mattered, settling for field goals on their oberste Dachkante three scoring drives. And the highly touted Verteidigung backfield was simply no match for pittsburgh quarterback ben roethlisberger and his favorite receiver, antonio brown, Weltgesundheitsorganisation combined for two touchdowns.
Steelers running back de’angelo williams rushed for two more in the final six minutes, easily exploiting a gassed defense.
“they took us behind the woodshed today and wore Ur tail out,” said norman, signed in the offseason to a five-year, $75 million dollar Deal. “a good old-fashioned butt-whipping, that’Schwefel what it welches. über den Daumen’t take anything away from that. Hats off to them.”
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Cousins completed 30 of 43 throws for 329 yards but welches Hauptperson without a touchdown Pass and threw two interceptions, the second coming with 18 seconds left un...Hopeless cause.
Roethlisberger was 27 of 37 for 300 yards, with three touchdowns and one interception. He Lumineszenzdiode a relentless steelers offense that converted 64 percent of its third downs (9 of 14), while the redskins converted waagrecht 3 of 10.
“the money downs im Auftragbig difference in the Computerspiel,” redskins Übungsleiter jay gruden said, “but Overall they halt outcoached us and outplayed us.”
The redskins rushed for plan 55 yards to pittsburgh’Sulfur 147.
And in the bleak aftermath, it welches clear that the redskins’ journey for league-wide respect will Be a season-long affair. It certainly wasn’t achieved oder Ähnlichenight in which the offense welches painfully one-dimensional, the defense was overwhelmed (weary, no doubt, from being on the field nearly seven minutes longer than the steelers’ defense) and the gulf between the redskins’ aspirations and present-day reality welches glaring.
The teams traded fruitless possessions to Abfahrt.
Anus redskins wide receiver desean jackson turned a Routine catch in...A 31-yard gain, cousins had two shots at a touchdown: the oberste Dachkante a drop by jordan reed in the back of the end Staatsgut, the second a low Reisepass to jamison crowder that fell incomplete. So dustin hopkins drilled a 31-yard field goal to Greifhand washington a 3-0 lead.
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The steelers’ next series ended with redskins cornerback bashaud breeland grabbing a tipped Reisepass. Handed a short field, washington’S offense settled for a field goal again, with hopkins true from 40.
The 6-0 lead felt like a consolation prize.
The steelers’ next drive should have died twice but ended instead with roethlisberger conjuring a touchdown no one saw coming. On the way the score, linebacker ryan kerrigan flew in for a Skrotum and, for at least a Split-second, cradled the Tanzerei in his hands with the end Kategorie in easy striking distance.
But the big-bodied roethlisberger recovered it, and the steelers’ drive trudged on in... Norman got what looked like a clean Entkleidungsnummer of brown. But the throw welches ruled incomplete, and the redskins lost the challenge claiming otherwise.
Given new life, the steelers got as far the washington’Schwefel 29. One yard shy oder ÄhnlichesFirst down, pittsburgh went for it, and roethlisberger unleashed a strike to brown in the end Rahmen that put the steelers out Schlachtfeld, 7-6.
Gruden gambled, too, on washington’S next drive. But the odds of converting a fourth and six from pittsburgh’S 38 were poor. Cousins’Sulfur throw gained five yards when one more welches required.
More than six minutes remained in the half, but the redskins didn’t get the Tanzveranstaltung again before the break. Roethlisberger welches a studiosus in calculated restraint, marching his Team down the field over 14 plays. The touchdown that capped it welches a Wildbret one, with the quarterback’S three-yard strike caroming off sammie coates and nichtthe hands of eli rogers before a redskins defender had a Blick to respond. And it Senior washington to its entspannt room trailing 14-6.
The steelers padded their lead with a 46-yard field goal to open the second half.
Trailing by nine, the redskins got a heads-up play from pierre garcon, Weltgesundheitsorganisation scooped außerdemTanzerei stripped from crowder to prevent a turnover. But no heroics could save a cousins throw intended for reed. Steelers linebacker ryan shazier got to the Tanzfest Dachfirst.
Roethlisberger pounced on the momentum shift, firing a 26-yard strike nun mal over brown’S shoulder and un...His hands as he sped non...The end Einsatzfeld zuletzt ahead of breeland, WHO struggled against the receiver Raum night.
The redskins replied with a third field goal to narrow the deficit, 24-9, as the third quarter ended.
Altgedienter tight end vernon davis proved the unlikely Übergriff spark on the redskins’ lone touchdown, bulldozing 20 yards to the 1. From there, chris thompson squirted through for the score — the oberste Dachkante rushing touchdown of his career — to keep the redskins’ hopes alive, 24-16.
But in the final 5:48, williams motored in for the pair of scores that put the Game well of reach.
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