Monday Morning NFL recap - week #6

When people ask me why I'm a Steelers fan, I tell them the short version which is that I wanted to back a team I could watch play each week. The Colts were still in Baltimore back then and the Steelers were on my television each week. Welcome back to Indiana and Steelers football because, not including my first Sunday here with the illegal television set up, each Sunday after had my Steelers on TV.

Steelers:

• I don't know if it is the death of the Steelers leader, Dan Rooney Jr., or just too much estrogen and egos in the locker room, but the issues on this team go way beyond football. From Le'Veon Bell's wanting more money and refusing the Steelers major money offer to the kneeling on the field debacle to Antonio Brown's tantrum to Big Ben's whining and now to Martavis Bryant's wanting to be traded rumor, the Steelers are in trouble. No wonder football is second to all of this drama. My question is why aren't the powers that be stepping in to put an end to all of this nonsense? Someone has got to step up and knock some sense back into these children players.
• Addressing Martavis Bryant, let's take a look. Drafted by the Steelers in 2014, he spent the first six weeks inactive due to an injury. In 2015 he was suspended the first four weeks for substance abuse. In 2016 he was suspended the entire year for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy. In 2017 he wants to be traded because he feels he isn't getting to be involved as much as he should. Are you freakin' kidding me? This kid, at 25 he is beyond that, but his actions are obviously childish, has got to man up and perhaps former Steelers wide receiver Santonio Holmes could help with this, and thank his lucky stars that he is where he is at this moment. 
• As usual we started off hot, and I thought we were finally putting everything behind us and breaking out like I've felt we would do, but it was just a fluke. The defense played great, keeping the Chiefs to just 16 yards in the first half, but the offense still couldn't break out with big scores despite their 459 yard totals.
• Le'Veon Bell had his big break out, but credit to the rest of the team for opening up the big holes that let him barrel through to his 32 carries for 179 yards. 
• In the second half, while watching Ben Roethlisberger, who had TONS of time thanks to his Oline, I saw that moment when he just decided to throw it far and long to Antonio Brown, putting his trust into his receiver. Brown caught the ball after it bounced off the defender, avoided a tackle, and scored the lone touchdown for the day. 
• The defense held the Chiefs key players, Kareem Hunt, Travis Kelce, Tyreek Hill, to less than 40 yards a piece. That's the key difference right there. Stop the key play makers.
• The win over the Chiefs knocked out the last undefeated team in the NFL this year.Monda

Other:

• Yikes. Green Bay Packer's quarterback Aaron Rodgers is out with a broken collarbone after a hit by Vikings Anthony Barr. Rodgers had released the ball and Barr kept coming. Rodgers put out his arm to break his fall as all humans instinctively do and OUCH you knew it was all over. Add Rodgers to the long list of injured reserve players thus far.
• Kudos to Adrian Peterson, now with the Arizona Cardinals, for his 134 yards and two touchdown day against Tampa Bay. In fact, the three aging Cardinals, Peterson, Carson Palmer, and Larry Fitzgerald, all had 100 plus yards totals and kicked ass on the field.
• Uh, the Jets didn't score on that pylon hit? Ruled that Austin Seferian-Jenkins fumbled the ball (WHAT??) before being pushed out of bounds, what should have been a touchdown suddenly wasn't. I'm sorry, but if that wasn't a touchdown then all those other pylon hits shouldn't be touchdowns either. Fumble? I can't even... Bad call and you can't convince me otherwise.
• How crazy was that New Orleans and Detroit game? That is one I would have liked to have seen along with the Bucs working hard to comeback against the Cardinals.
• Unfortunately, the Bucs also losed their quarterback in the first half, but early tests show that Jameis Winston's body might just be A-ok.