(1) Recent winners such as the Ravens, Giants, Packers and Steelers typically stayed away from free agents, and fans are catching on.
(2) If you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, you can't believe you came within a 10-point fourth quarter rally by the San Diego Chargers of stealing a playoff berth.
(3) Paolo Bandini (@Paolo_Bandini) Ryan Succop, born in Pittsburgh, misses the kick that would have put the Steelers into the playoffs.
(4) Here’s the full list of final scores (plus one that is nearly final): Panthers 21-20 Falcons Ravens 17-34 Bengals Texans 10-16 Titans Jaguars 10-30 Colts Jets 20-7 Dolphins Lions 13-14 Vikings Browns 7-20 Steelers Washington 6-20 Giants (1:05 remaining) 9.10pm GMT Final score: Ravens 17-34 Bengals For the first time since John Harbaugh took over as head coach in 2008, the Baltimore Ravens have failed to make it into the playoffs.
(5) Still, at least the Steelers fans have something to cheer about, as Shaun Suisham boots one through the uprights from 36 yards.
(6) 6.43pm GMT Around the league We are just into the second quarter of most games now, so here's a sweep of scores around the league: Seahawks 3-0 Falcons Lions 7-7 Bears Eagles 7-0 Packers Jaguars 10-0 Titans Rams 7-0 Colts Raiders 10-7 Giants Bills 3-0 Steelers Bengals 0-10 Ravens 6.38pm GMT Field goal!
(7) October 7, 2013 Dear Steelers fans who are pretending to be Pirates fans because your football team is 0-4 and the Pirates are in the postseason: This is not acceptable for a baseball game, or really anywhere, honestly.
(8) Tom Matzzie (@tommatzzie) Me and Steeler fan Michael Hayden.
(9) • Just at the moment when people were beginning to question Tom Brady, he responds with a dominant performance against the Steelers, throwing for four touchdowns in a 55-31 win.
(10) October 27, 2013 The NFL is sufficiently hard to predict that it is often hard to know which teams will or won’t be successful in a given year (most people thought the Steelers-Vikings match-up would be between playoff contenders, instead of struggling teams).
(11) Even Mohamed, despite his revelatory experience, said his first loyalty was still to the Steelers.
(12) They then beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round of the playoffs.
(13) Real Madrid and Chelsea were abandoned in favour of [American] football teams such as the Pittsburgh Steelers.
(14) With four seconds left in regulation, Kansas City set up a 41-yard field goal attempt for kicker Ryan Succop, one which would have eliminated the Chargers and awarded the Pittsburgh Steelers the second Wild Card in the AFC.
(15) Nick Novak kicked a 36-yard field goal with 5:30 to play in overtime and San Diego won 27-24 to claim the sixth and final postseason spot in the AFC, eliminating the Pittsburgh Steelers.
(16) The Chiefs can't answer a Nick Novak field goal in overtime and the Chargers somehow make the playoffs and the Steelers managed to lose a game they weren't even in.
(17) In a perfectly reasonable move that made Pittsburgh Steelers fans understandably upset , head coach Andy Reid decided to rest 19 of his starters before kickoff, so the Chargers would only have to defeat backup quarterback Chase Daniel and a group mostly comprised of second and third stringers.
(18) The NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, and the Pittsburgh Steelers chairman, Dan Rooney, who pushed for the diversity rule that was named after him, met the FA last week.
(19) There was a four-month spell as technical director of Canada's Hamilton Steelers, then he was home again.
(20) Bills 3-17 Steelers Pittsburgh are pulling away from Buffalo now, LeVeon Bell ploughing into the end zone from four yards at the end of a six-play, 58-yard drive.
Steeper
Definition:
(n.) A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.
Example Sentences:
(1) The slope of this line was substantially steeper than the regression line slope for treadmill running.4.
(2) The mean in the newborn-to-6-month-old group was 47.59 D; in the 12-18-month-old group it had decreased to 45.56 D. The cornea appears to stabilize at about 54 months, with an average reading of 42.69 D. Evaluation of 11 eyes diagnosed as having persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous revealed that eyes with this diagnosis generally have steeper corneas than normal eyes at any given age.
(3) Air N2 curve of COPD, however, showed a much steeper ascending plateau without CO.
(4) Stimulation of these endings also caused the TE vs TI relationship to become steeper in cats and to be displaced downwards in rabbits.
(5) When EDTA was present in the homogenization medium the curve obtained was of simpler, curvilinear type showing an increased activity at temperatures above 20 degrees C. The Na+-K+ ATPase activity in similar preparation from adult brain were not complex but curvilinear whether EDTA was used or not; however, EDTA increased the activity at temperatures above 20 degrees C. When such chelating agents as EDTA or histidine were used in preparation of microsomes from immature rat brain, the temperature dependence curve of Na+-K+ ATPase in this membrane fraction was changed to a steeper and simpler curve with increased activity especially at temperatures above 20 degrees.
(6) The slope of the 1-nitrosopyrene survival curve for XP cells was also 2.5 times steeper than that for the normal cells, but the HCMM cells showed a normal response.
(7) The slope of the 1-nitropyrene survival curve for XP cells was 2.5 times steeper than the slope of the curve of the normal cells; the slope of the 1-NP survival curve for the HCMM cells was intermediate between the XP cells and the normal fibroblasts.
(8) Many subjects in both UCLP and CP groups showed an intrinsic maxillary retrusion and a steeper mandible.
(9) The slope of this increase was 2.5 times steeper for S units than for FR units.
(10) After increasing doses of T4 administered to thyroidectomized rats, serum and cerebrocortical T4 concentrations increased in a dose-dependent manner, but the increment in the latter was steeper than that in the former.
(11) Comparison with other epidemiologic studies suggests that the typical ultraviolet radiation dose-nevus yield curve might be steeper in males than females.
(12) Contractures induced by using, instead of normal Krebs solution, a solution in which potassium was replaced by sodium (Krebs potassium) were also decreased dose-dependently by amiloride, but the slope of the linear log dose-effect curve line was steeper.
(13) The pattern of dose-response curves was a continuous change from being flat (maximal delta FEV1 less than or equal to 5%), becoming steeper with a plateau that occurred at a greater change in FEV1 as the curves were shifted more to the left, to being the steepest without a plateau response.
(14) In BAPN-treated rats, the medial cross-sectional area was reduced, postmortem distensibility of vascular wall was greater, and baroreceptor reflex, estimated from heart rate responses to BP changes, showed steeper regression curves.
(15) I began the long climb up Swirral Edge, a ridge that gets progressively steeper and narrower until two-legged runners were reduced to clamberers on all fours.
(16) Growth curves of chest tumors (residual tumors) in Group B after amputation of the tumor-bearing leg were significantly steeper than those of both Group A, whose tumor-bearing legs were not amputated, and Group C, whose normal legs were amputated, at the same tumor age.
(17) The instantaneous I-V curve was linear while in the steady state the curve became flatter at low negative membrane potentials and steeper at high negative membrane potentials.
(18) Serum SHBG correlated negatively with age in both treated hypopituitary and normal boys, but the slope of the regression line was significantly steeper in treated hypopituitary boys (P less than 0.01).
(19) When administered intravenously, Ple 1053 was approximately 5 times more potent on a weight basis than furosemide, its dose-response relationship was closer and the slope was steeper.
(20) These include "a steeper than expected downturn in Europe, financial contagion related to the sovereign debt crisis, rapidly rising oil prices and geopolitical risks".