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Antonio Brown Fined For Plays From Bears Game [Gifs]

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Antonio Brown was fined over $16,000 for two plays he was penalized for during Sunday night’s loss to the Chicago Bears. The first penalty occurred during a punt return in the 3rd quarter. Brown was penalized for face masking Sherrick McManis, while he was going out of bounds. The second penalty that resulted in a fine was for a late hit on Chris Conte, after a pass that was intended for Emmanuel Sanders was intercepted.

Brown is reportedly going to appeal the fines. What do you think? Are the fines fair?

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Steelers Vs Bears Offensive And Defensive Player Participation

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Below are the play counts for the offense and defense during last night’s loss to the Bears. Some notable numbers on offense include Beachum’s 16 plays where he subbed in for Adams and Gilbert. Wheaton was on the field for only 8 plays. Will Johnson saw 17 snaps, 5 of which were run blocking. David Johnson was in for 26 snaps, 14 of which where he served as a run blocker. Heath saw a good amount of time at 39 plays.

Offensive Play Counts

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On the defensive side of the ball, Jarvis Jones saw 40 plays to Jason Worilds’ 26. Steve McLendon saw a decrease in snaps this week due to his nagging hamstring injury at 30 snaps, 9 of which he rushed the passer. Al Woods saw 8 snaps- equal parts rushing and run blocking. Shamarko Thomas was in for 25 plays, 19 of which he was in coverage.

Defensive Play Counts

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Steelers Vs Bears Weather, Odds & Where To Watch And Listen

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The Steelers are the underdogs at home tonight. This is only the fifth time since 2000 that the Steelers have been underdogs at home. The Bears are favored by 2.5 points. The weather is going to be prime football weather with the forecast showing no possibility of precipitation. Should be mostly cloudy with temperatures in the low fifties. NBC should have a live feed of the broadcast up later located here: stlrs.co/18jQjkt

As always, you can listen to the local radio broadcast with Bill Hillgrove, Tunch Ilkin, and Craig Wolfley on iheartradio here: stlrs.co/18jQI6y

Even though the Steelers are underdogs, I predict they pull out a surprise win.

Steelers Vs Bears Inactive List

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For the Steelers:

Landry Jones, Derek Moye, Le’Veon Bell, Cortez Allen, Isaiah Green, Cody Wallace, and Hebron Fangupo are inactive.

For the Bears:

WR Wilson, CB Wilson, RB Ford, G Brown, T Scott, DE Bass, DT Minter.

To the dismay of many, Derek Moye who has scored half of the Steelers touchdowns this season, is inactive tonight. Bell is also inactive, though Heath Miller will play. Felix Jones is listed as the starter at running back.

Steelers Veterans Hold Team Meeting

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The Steelers vets called a team meeting today to discuss ways to right the ship after starting the season 0-2 for the first time since 2002.

Ben Roethlisberger spoke about having this meeting yesterday on The Fan morning show. He called the group of veterans “the 08’ers club”, and said that the main purpose was to talk about providing leadership to younger players and to make sure they know that this isn’t the Steeler way, and that it’s not acceptable.

Ben also fielded questions about being 0-2, the Bengals game, Fernando Velasco, Markus Wheaton, and more.

You can listen to the interview below:

Bettis: “I’d Blow Up The Offense”

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During his regular appearance on ESPN earlier, Jerome Bettis talked about the Steelers problems on offense, and what he’d do to fix them.

“If I was Mike Tomlin…the first thing I would do was address the offense, and I would blow up the offense.”, Bettis said. “I’m going to go with this no huddle offense, because … I want to keep the ball in the best player’s hand, and that’s Ben Roethlisberger.”

He goes on to talk about the importance of the no huddle and the difficulty the offensive line is having. Ultimately, the Bus says there’s cause for concern, but not panic. You can watch below.

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Friday Practice Participation Report

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The participation report looked better today than it did yesterday. Here’s the rundown:

Did not practice: Cortez Allen and Le’Veon Bell

Limited: Heath Miller

Full Participation: Steve McLendon, Shaun Suisham, and Curtis Brown.

We’ll have an extra day of practice this week due to the Monday night game, so the Friday participation rule won’t hold true. Having said that, I wouldn’t expect Cortez Allen to play Monday night.

McLendon and Suisham were limited on Thursday due to hamstring injuries, and Curtis Brown was out with an illness. All 3 were reported to have returned to full participation during Friday’s practice.

Steelers Week 2 Depth Chart

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The Steelers vs Bengals depth chart was released yesterday. While not all surprising, here are some notable entries:

Kelvin Beachum as starting center and Velasco at back up.

Redman listed at starter in front of Jones and Dwyer.

Kion Wilson listed as starter at LILB, with Vince Williams at backup.

Worilds and Jones as co-starters.

You can view the depth chart here:

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Steelers Sign Kicker Shayne Graham

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The team announced today that they have signed K Shayne Graham. Graham’s name was thrown around last night as a possible temporary solution while Shaun Suisham recovers from his hamstring injury. Suisham injured his hamstring during pregame warm ups before the Titans game and is expected to be sidelined a few weeks.

This signing makes the 14th team the 35 year old kicker has played for, including all of the AFC North teams. He holds multiple Bengals franchise records and made the pro bowl while on their roster in 2005. While kicking for the Texans last season, he made 31-of-38 field goals, and made a career long 55 yarder against the Patriots in the playoffs.

He was cut by the Browns when they reduced their roster to 53 men on August 31st.

Report: Steelers To Re-Sign Jonathan Dwyer

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Ed Bouchette of the Post-Gazette is reporting that the Steelers will be re-signing Jonathan Dwyer today. This is a logical move after the news that LaRod Stephens-Howling tore his ACL yesterday and will be out for the year. Dwyer has had workouts with the Giants and the Patriots recently, but neither team offered him a contract.

Dwyer was due $1.323 million this season before being waived during the final roster cuts. It will be interesting to see the financial details of his signing. It’s hard not to feel a little bad for Dwyer given the abysmal blocking performance displayed yesterday by the offensive line. That’s almost certainly going to get worse now that Maurkice Pouncey is out.