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There are a lot of reasons why the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> The normally reliable Chris Boswell missed a makable field goal in the first half.<\/p>\n They failed to turn a turnover at midfield into points.<\/p>\n The defense played soft and allowed too many big plays and too many easy yards with the game on the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n But quarterback Aaron Rodgers has to take some of the blame as well. While he finished the game with a respectable stat line (299 yards, three touchdowns and a two-point conversion), he took some unacceptable sacks in big moments, missed some chances for big plays and missed a lot of throws that a younger version of him would have made.\u00a0<\/p>\n His biggest miss came on the Steelers’ final play of the game.<\/p>\n Shortly after Browns kicker Andre Szmyt drilled a 56-yard field goal to give the Browns the lead with 10 seconds to play, Cleveland opted to kick the ensuing kickoff through the end zone for a touchback, allowing no time to come off the clock.<\/p>\n As we saw<\/a> with the Baltimore Ravens<\/a> and Dallas Cowboys<\/a> on Sunday, that could be a disastrous decision given the current touchback rules that place the ball at the 35-yard line.<\/p>\n Given the touchback location, and how good NFL kickers are, you are basically one play from getting into field-goal range, and as the Ravens showed, you only need seven seconds to make it work.<\/p>\n Instead of going for that, Rodgers and the Steelers threw a desperation Hail Mary that not only landed 20 yards short of the end zone, but it was intercepted.<\/p>\n The problem?<\/p>\n They had a chance to get into field-goal range.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\nlost<\/a> to the Cleveland Browns<\/a> (again) on Thursday night, dropping a 27-24 decision, to send them to 2-2 and lift the Browns to first place in the AFC North.<\/p>\nAaron Rodgers blew it for Steelers on their final play<\/h2>\n