The Pittsburgh Steelers had two leads and opportunities to increase those leads but dropped passes, errant throws, penalties, and missed field goals caused the Steelers to blow a 7 point lead in the fourth quarter on the road and they lost to the Chicago Bears 17-14.
Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers got off to a fast start as he completed 10 straight passes en route to leading the offense to a score on their first drive of the game for a 7-0 lead. Then the wheels came off a bit and Big Ben missed on a throw to Mike Wallace that was intercepted and ending the drive. Dropped passes and bad throws resulted in Ben throwing 6 straight incompletions ruining any flow the offense might have had hampering their chances to increase the lead. Big Ben connected with tight end Matt Spaeth from one yard out on the Steelers first scoring drive and then Ben took ball in himself for a rushing touchdown in the third quarter to give Pittsburgh a 14-7 lead heading into the fourth quarter. The offensive line held up pretty well only giving up 2 sacks and they helped the rushing game opening up holes for the team to pick up their first 100 yard rushing game of the season on 22 carries.
Jay Cutler rebounded from his abysmal week 1 performance and took advantage of the Steelers misfortunes in guiding his Bears to their first victory of the season completing 27 of 38 passes for 236 yards and 2 touchdowns. Just before halftime the Bears got some help from the refs on a BS roughing the passer call on James Harrison on an incomplete pass on third down. With the penalty the Bears found new life and Cutler connected with Kellen Davis for the game tying touchdown just before the end of the half. Cutler found rookie Johnny Knox in the fourth quarter open in the endzone for the tying score for the Bears.
The Steelers drove twice into Chicago territory in the fourth quarter and came away empty handed with the usually reliable Jeff Reed missing two field goals(38,44). After the second missed field goal the Bears drove down the field and Robbie Gould kicked the game winning field goal 17-14.
It's not time to panic but the Steelers beat themselves in this game and it was a shame that they gave it away. Pittsburgh had multiple opportunities to take big leads, not just off of the missed field goals, but they dropped a lot of passes and the rain appeared to effect Big Ben when he would throw the ball in the second and third quarters. They need to rebound this week with a big divisional match-up on the road against the Bengals because they can not afford to go down 2 games in the division.
GO STEELERS!
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