Pittsburgh: QB Brian St. Pierre (3rd QB), WR Willie Reid, FS Ryan Clark, RB Gary Russell, FB Dan Krieder, G Darnell Stapleton, T Trai Essex, TE Jerame Tuman.

Jerome Harrison is probably inactive due to the Steelers blitzing.

7-0 Browns.

Vickers scored again today, but this time, we're winning 14-3. Gotta love it! I love it!

ah hell with it. WHOOO GREAT FIRST HALF!

My only complaint about the half? We should've taken a timeout after the sack. If Cribbs would've had a great return, we could've gotten a field goal. If the Steelers kicked it short, we may have only needed 20 yards to get into range. If we didn't have a good return, we could've kneeled it.

In reality, I expect another dumpoff to make the punt more reasonable, and gulp putting faith in our defense again.

A sham turns into a magnificent play!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I wonder if Tomlin will pull that time out just before the snap bullshit

We're not there yet.

Hines Ward was blatantly holding downfield on the Woerthlessburger touchdown.  Blatant.

On the key third down play in the fourth quarter where Anderson missed connections with Edwards on the sidelines, replays showed Polamalu clearly pushing Edwards in the back 15 yards downfield.  It should have illegal contact and an automatic first down for the Browns.

And then the call on the Cribbs punt return that essentially gave the game to the Steelers.

Not to mention the gift touchdown to Heath Miller on the ball he didn't have control of in the endzone.

My wife and her family are Steelers fans, and they don't understand when I tell them that the Steelers get the benefits of key calls more than any other team in the league.

The Browns deserved to lose because they couldn't get anything going in the second half - but still, it's hard to lose a game like this knowing that the referees clearly overlooked obvious penalties on key plays for the Steelers, and then dropped the hammer on the Browns, essentially giving the Steelers the game.

C.H.U.D. and Crennel called way too conservative of an offensive game in the 2nd half. Get K2 and JJ involved again! Lewis wasn't getting anything... you had to throw a little more. It probably didn't help that DA's passes were so poor.

The O-line and the overall defense looked VERY good. I can't say the same thing for Jamal, though.

The Heath Miller TD was a catch. I wanted it not to be as badly as anyone, but he did make the play.

Willie McGinest was awful today. On the second 3rd down run he was obviously bad but the majority of the game he was a step slow or just beaten around. He looks every bit his age.

Crennel made a stupid mistake to call a timeout and then challenge. If he was going to challenge he should have done so right away. That call ultimately cost us the game, regardless of the other factors.

Anderson was bad for the first time today. I am not a QB coach so I don't know why but he sure was bad in that second half.

I don't see the maturing team that Cmon Cleveland does. Today I saw a team make some great special teams plays, have one good drive and play one half of defense. We were completely outplayed today and only the incomparable Josh Cribbs kept this from being another rout. Pittsburgh gained 401 yds to our 168 and nearly had more yards rushing than we did of offense, they held the ball for 17 minutes more than we did, they converted 50% of 3rd downs and they demonstrated what a competent defense can do.

Are we getting better? Maybe. Are we still mediocre at best? Yes. This is a Browns team that is not even close to the same level as the elite teams in the league right now. I'm encouraged like we all are by the 5-4 record but we have a very long way to go.