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Steelers fall to Bills in second preseason game
Backup Justin Fields did not fare significantly better, because the Steelers produced simply 219 yards in a 9-3 loss to the Payments Saturday evening at Acrisure Stadium.
The loss drops the Steelers to 0-2 within the preseason, and maybe places extra urgency into subsequent Saturday’s preseason finale at Detroit.
“It was nonetheless not what we’re on the lookout for,” stated Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin. “It was higher in some areas, however nonetheless JV in some others.”
Although Wilson and Fields mixed to finish 19 of 27 passes, they went for simply 139 yards.
Wilson, signed within the offseason as a free agent, was seeing his first motion of the preseason after coping with a calf harm suffered through the workforce’s conditioning drill at coaching camp.
The nine-time Professional Bowl quarterback was pressured early and infrequently, as Buffalo defensive finish Gregory Rousseau sacked him twice on his personal and shared one other with defensive sort out Ed Oliver on the Steelers’ first three possessions.
“We did not do a ok job of defending the quarterback,” Tomlin acknowledged. “We have to do a greater job in go safety that we did, not solely on possessions downs, however simply usually. That may’t be an issue for us
Fortuitously for the Steelers, who didn’t play outdoors linebackers T.J. Watt and Alex Highsmith together with defensive sort out Cam Heyward, the Payments additionally selected to sit down quarterback Josh Allen after rain storms drenched the sphere at Acrisure Stadium previous to the beginning of the sport.
In his absence, former Steelers quarterback Mitch Trubisky began for the Payments, and it was a Trubisky mistake that led to the sport’s first scoring alternative.
After each groups traded a number of punts within the first quarter, Trubisky, who had been sacked twice within the first quarter, was pressured into an errant throw on Buffalo’s second possession of the second quarter and picked off by security Miles Killebrew on the Pittsburgh 42.
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