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Here’s what I know:
Duce Staley finally broke 100 yards in this game, but he got 49 of them on the Steelers’ final possession, a drive that was nearly meaningless save that it kept the ball away from Miami and preserved Pittsburgh’s 10-point lead. The Dolphins’ D — the lone bright spot on that team — was probably tired and feeling defeated by then.
Ben Roethlisberger was 12-for-22 for 163 yards, 1 TD and 1 INT. The touchdown pass to Hines Ward was the culmination of an early 4th-quarter drive in which Big Ben went 4-for-5 for 48 yards. He didn’t go up against a weak defense in Miami, but he was clearly helped by the fact that the Dolphins have no weapons on offense.
The Dolphins fumbled 5 times and lost two of them.
Antwaan Randle El had a 41-yard kickoff return, which was good, since this was clearly a field-possession game, and the Steelers seemed to get the better of that most of the way.
That’s about it. Those of you who actually saw the game are free to fill in the blanks as you please…
1 response so far ↓
1 Anonymous // Sep 27, 2004 at 9:18 am
Yeah I didn’t see it either. JJ got it on direcTV though. I watched it via NFL.com’s gamestats live update while I graded my kids’ exams. Not … quite … the … same. But hey, Big Ben’s got a win in his NFL debut …
Angela (who’s becoming a Steeler fan in her own right … she just had to be nudged that way by JJ)
Oh and by the way … I’ll be there to help you move on Saturday, too. I guess I never wrote back.