Wrapping up we 12 in the NFL season we have the Pittsburgh Steelers taking on the Indianapolis Colts on Monday night football and a battle of the AFC teams. These two teams have really struggled this year and with both teams struggling at the quarterback position one team in the Steelers have their potential franchise quarterback, and the Colts seemingly have another year of mediocre quarterback play. Let’s go through each half of this game and give my overall thoughts.
In the first half it was mostly all Pittsburgh, with the Steelers settling for multiple field goals but did end up scoring with a Najee Harris run in the end zone. As the Steelers headed into halftime with a lead on the Colts, Indianapolis really struggled on offense and couldn’t seem to run the ball on this stingy Steelers defense. With the Steelers heading into halftime with a 16-3 lead over the Colts, the Steelers had a big edge going and a half time, and forced Indianapolis to have to throw.
The second half the Colts came out swinging, scoring 14 unanswered points and making this a tight ball game as they took the lead in the third quarter. The Steelers came out flat and back up running back Benny Snell Jr. had a great game with leading the team and rushing, averaging 5.2 yards a carry, Najee Harris really struggled in the second half as he didn’t do very much and finished the game with 35 yards rushing on 10 attempts with one touchdown. With all that being said, the Steelers scored a touchdown in the fourth quarter, and also got the two point conversion, which gave them a 24 to 17 lead. The Colts and head coach Jeff Saturday, butchered the clock in the final drive to try to win the game and made many mental errors which cost in the game.
Overall a good win for the Steelers as they advance to 4-7 as the Indianapolis Colts fall to 4-7-1 and 1-2 under Jeff Saturday.
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