After a Horror injury and confusing end to regulation, Steelers regroup to beat Seahawks

In a sport that protected daunting damage and a chaotic series on the give up of law, the Pittsburgh Steelers regrouped to be triumphant in extra time.

They beat the Russell Wilson-much less Seattle Seahawks, 23-20, to hold their season from coming undone and get lower back to the .500 mark.

“Boy, man, it’s exact to win a sport like that,” Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin stated, “to get to recognize yourselves personally and together while confronted with dire situations at instances and apparently while it’s now no longer going your manner. So that became exact.”

Chris Boswell’s 37-backyard subject aim received it for the Steelers with 2:50 closing withinside the 10-minute extra time. The Steelers recovered a fumble through Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith, compelled through T.J. Watt after every crew had punted as soon as in extra time.

The sport had somber and harrowing moments withinside the fourth sector while Seahawks protecting give up Darrell Taylor became located on a stretcher and brought from the sector on a cart after being injured on a walking play. Players in each group accumulated on the sector as clinical employees tended to Taylor.

Taylor left the stadium in an ambulance to be taken to a close-by hospital. He became alert and had motion in his palms and legs, in line with the Seahawks.

“The CT scans had been clear,” Seattle Coach Pete Carroll stated in the course of his postgame information conference. “So that’s a simply exact initial document for you. There are greater assessments to be finished and stuff like that. So we’re pleased approximately that information.”

Taylor desired to go away the sector beneath neath his personal power, in line with Carroll.

“He became so mad approximately having to be taken off the sector like that,” Carroll stated. “He desired to get up. They simply wouldn’t allow him to do it due to the fact they needed to do all the steady strategies to attend to him and all that. Man, he didn’t need any a part of that.”

Ryan Shazier, the previous Steelers linebacker whose NFL profession became ended through spinal wire damage suffered in the course of a 2017 sport, wrote on Twitter: “I pray Taylor is okay. God is robust he'll assist us to overcome all obstacles.”

Tomlin stated in the course of his information conference: “We ship our mind and prayers to Taylor … and we want him a rapid restoration.”

The fourth sector ended amid confusion. Seahawks kicker Jason Myers linked on a 43-backyard subject aim as time expired in law to tie the rating at 20.

That got here after Smith finished a skip to extensive receiver DK Metcalf, who misplaced a fumble. Wideout Freddie Swain made the restoration for the Seahawks, who had been out of timeouts and rushed to line as much as spike the ball.

But the officers introduced that the play with the fumble and restoration became beneath neath review. They located 3 seconds at the clock after confirming that the capture, fumble, and restoration stood as called. The Seahawks covered up and Smith spiked the ball to forestall the clock with seconds closing. Seattle’s subject aim crew got here on and Myers tied the sport. Tomlin became incensed at the sideline on the officers. He nevertheless became seething later.

“I hated it,” stated Tomlin, a member of the NFL’s opposition committee. “I simply … hated it. I can't trust that sport became stopped to verify capture-no capture at that moment. That’s all I’m going to say.”

Asked what rationalization he had obtained from the officers, Tomlin stated: “That’s all I’m going to say. It became an embarrassment.”

Watt, the NFL’s highest-paid protecting player, had a sack to give up the Seahawks’ first power of extra time, then brought about Smith’s fumble on a sack on Seattle’s subsequent ownership to installation the triumphing subject aim.

Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger threw for 229 yards and a landing because the Steelers evened their file at 3-3, triumphing their 2d immediately sport following a 3-sport skid. They led through 14-zero at halftime on Roethlisberger’s landing by skip to rookie walking lower back Najee Harris and tight give up Eric Ebron’s give up-round landing run.

The Seahawks rallied, regardless of Wilson looking from the sideline after the present process surgical operation for the damage to his center finger that he suffered 10 days in advance in the course of a loss to the Los Angeles Rams. Wilson overlooked a sport for the primary time in the course of an NFL profession that started out in 2012. He had begun out 149 immediately every day season video games and sixteen greater withinside the postseason on his manner to turning into a Super Bowl winner and an eight-time Pro Bowl selection.

But they did not capitalize on a restoration they had been awarded, thru a replay review, on a fumble through Roethlisberger that in the beginning have been dominated by an incomplete by skip. The Seahawks took ownership on the Pittsburgh 35-backyard line however had been driven backward through a conserving penalty and punted.

Boswell’s 52-backyard subject aim placed the Steelers in advance 20-17 with 1:30 left in law, putting in the livid series to shut the fourth sector and the extra time drama.

All the effort, all of the plays, all of the come-thru and the coronary heart and all that form of stuff — you recognize, okay, however, we didn’t win. That’s the sport.”