Pittsburgh Steelers: Five players who stood out against the Atlanta Falcons
Antonio Brown
Antonio Brown had one of his quotes of the season with the media this past week, talking about his relationship with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger:
"It’s like WiFi. Sometimes the connection’s poor, sometimes the connection is great. It’s always connected."
Early on in this game, it sure looked like the connection was poor. Poor enough to the point where you wonder if Randy Fichtner or Mike Tomlin might just throw out the dang router. The second half of the game was a different story.
The duo upgraded their bandwidth in the second half, highlighted by a beautiful 47-yard touchdown pass where Brown beat one-on-one coverage down the sideline and Big Ben’s pass hit Brown in stride. Brown totaled six catches for 101 yards and two touchdowns on the day.
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Part of the Steelers’ struggles in the passing game this season has been the lack of a good connection between Ben and AB, but if something switched on at halftime where they can carry this over into future games, this offense could start being as dangerous as most expected it to be coming into the season.