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Browns vs Steelers Week 11: Pittsburgh loses key defender for season
The ink is not dry on Week 10 of the NFL season but it is natural to look ahead a little bit to Week 11 when the Cleveland Browns face off with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The second of back-to-back games in the AFC North pits two teams with surprising 6-3 records.
Neither the Browns or Steelers have been great on offense while both have been beset with injuries as well.
Cleveland fans will point back to Pittsburgh’s safety Minkah Fitzpatrick injuring RB Nick Chubb as the biggest moment of the season so far.
After knocking off the Baltimore Ravens in Week 10, the Browns have a chance to turn the tide completely from the first matchup with the Steelers when Chubb went down.
While Cleveland has a number of injuries we will be monitoring, Pittsburgh has already announced that they lost LB Kwon Alexander coming out of their Week 10 victory:
In eight games, Alexander has 41 tackles, five tackles for loss, two quarterback hits, one sack, one interception, one forced fumble and one pass deflection. As his stats show, the veteran linebacker has been all over the field for the Steelers.
Alexander has been especially helpful in pass coverage with Pro Football Focus grading him as the team’s fifth-best in coverage this year.
We will keep you up to date with all injury news going into this week’s huge matchup that could decide the AFC North leader if the Ravens lose to the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday Night Football.
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The Green Bay Packers suffered another tough loss on Sunday. This time around, their effort came up short against the Pittsburgh Steelers as Kenny Pickett and Co. secured a hard-fought 23-19 win at the Acrisure Stadium.
The Packers went back to losing ways on Sunday following their dominant 20-3 win against the Los Angeles Rams in Week 9, which now has them staring at an ugly 3-6 record.
After the game, a disappointed Jordan Love did not have too many nice things to say about his team’s performance against Pittsburgh. The young quarterback could not help but vent out a bit after watching his squad suffer yet another heartbreaking loss:
“Very frustrating,” Love said, via Mike Spofford of the team website. “We’ve been put in this situation a lot of times, but we have not found a way to win it.
“It is frustrating, but we’ve just got to find a way, dig deeper. It comes down to so many different plays in the game. We can execute better to take advantage of those situations. We’ve got to definitely find a way.”
Love hit the nail on the head here. The Packers had a handful of opportunities to carve out a better result but in the end, it all boiled down to a lack of execution from Green Bay.
“Definitely a lot of plays we left out there, some drives we left points out there,” Love said. “But I definitely like the direction we’re headed as an offense.
“It just comes down to execution, making plays at the end right there. We have to find a way to make those plays to win it.”
Love himself had anything but a stellar performance in this one. The 25-year-old went just 21-of-40 on his pass attempts against the Steelers for 289 yards. Love did score two touchdowns, but he also had two costly interceptions throughout the contest.
“The main point is we didn’t win,” he said. “That’s what we’re trying to do. A lot of growth, a lot of positive things we can build upon.”
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