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The Steelers got back to business, and 5 more things we loved about the NFL in Week 6

The Chiefs took an L, Tevin Coleman slapped somebody’s helmet off, and Tom Brady is sick of the f***ing bullsh*t.

Pittsburgh Steelers v Kansas City Chiefs Photo by Peter Aiken/Getty Images

The Chiefs and Steelers matchup was easily the sexiest looking game we had going into Week 6. It ended up with the Chiefs’ first loss of the season, and the Steelers being the team that we thought they were — word to Dennis Green.

The Steelers reasserted themselves as AFC contenders with the win. Up until Sunday afternoon, most storylines surrounding the Steelers involved Alejandro Villanueva accidentally going out for the national anthem, Le’Veon Bell’s slow start, and Ben Roethlisberger questioning if he had it anymore. Sunday, they simply outplayed the Chiefs, narratives be damned.

Le’Veon Bell proved once again that he was back. He had 32 carries for the Steelers, with 184 yards and a touchdown. Antonio Brown also showed out for Steel City, with eight catches for 155 yards and a touchdown.

Brown also had one of the most breathtaking plays of the weekend with his one-handed catch that was tipped by a Chiefs defender. It was a game that we knew the Steelers were capable of winning, and they finally put it together.

But let us not forget about Ben Roethlisberger.

He said last week that he simply might not have it anymore, and he followed that up by beating the best team in the NFL. Sure, he didn’t stuff the box score with stats but did say afterward via ESPN, “I guess this old cowboy's got a little bit left in him.” Because you know, old quarterbacks say corny things.

The Steelers have had the Chiefs’ number as of late. They not only beat them in both the regular season and postseason last year, but Roethlisberger has won six straight against Kansas City. With Pittsburgh now sitting at 4-2 — a game behind the Chiefs’ 5-1 for the AFC’s best — the win will be big for the Steelers if it comes down to tiebreakers later in the season. The chances aren’t low that they’ll meet again, and NFL fans couldn’t be too upset if that were the case.

Here’s the other best things from Week 6 in the NFL.

Tevin Coleman said “f*** yo hat”

Tevin Coleman is the second back in Atlanta’s masterful duo of running backs. He often gets treated like a much lesser back and second-fiddle, but the dude really is a beast. Indiana University — his alma mater — is 1) a basketball school and 2) Running Back U, shouts out to Jordan Howard.

On this touchdown run against the Dolphins, he literally said goodbye to a Dolphins defender’s helmet before reaching across the goal line for a touchdown:

As a person who thoroughly enjoys disrespectful plays in sports, this is up there for me for most disrespectful play of the NFL season.

The Falcons didn’t win this game, but I’ll take pride in Coleman sonning a Dolphins linebacker for an early-season loss. The Falcons started off last season at 7-5, so there’s no reason to panic...yet.

Also, if you’ve never heard a football helmet referred to as a hat, I feel bad for you.

There’s nothing Tarik Cohen can’t do

I’m going to be That Guy and say that I told y’all so about Tarik Cohen. He’s the real deal and has proved to be just that in his first six NFL games.

On Sunday, Cohen got his first passing touchdown, a beauty that landed in the hands of Zach Miller. Not even former starter Mike Glennon could do it better than this:

Cohen is a stupid good athlete — how many people do you know that can do a backflip while catching two footballs? That’s what I thought.

He told me at the NFL Combine in February that he’d be happy playing three years in the NFL and then finding work elsewhere. But based on how he’s performed so far, he’s going to be playing longer than just three seasons.

F***ING BULLSHIT!

Whatever happened to Tom Brady and the Patriots on Sunday late in the second quarter against the Jets, he didn’t like it.

It was, “F***ING BULLSH*T!”

You know what else is “F***ING BULLSH*T!”?

  • NFL rules against celebrations
  • The battery life of an iPhone
  • The Falcons blowing a 28-3 Super Bowl lead
  • Takeoff not having a verse on “Bad and Boujee”
  • People who hand out things that aren’t candy on Halloween
  • We gotta wait two years until the next Game of Thrones season

I could go all day, but we have other football items to get to. The Patriots came back and beat the Jets after falling behind 14-0, winning by a final score of 24-21.

It didn’t come without controversy, after an Austin Seferian-Jenkins touchdown was overruled as a fumble and touchback after initially being called a touchdown. Most Jets fans would tell you that it was also [phrase that Brady uttered].

Teamwork makes the dream work

The Ravens needed something against the Bears, and they got it with Bobby Rainey’s 96-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.

The touchdown doesn’t happen without some sabotage from his teammate Tyus Bowser, though, who tripped Rainey:

After Rainey accidentally tripped over Bowser, players on both teams stopped and assumed the play was over. Rainey was the only player who kept playing through the whistle, and he got an easy touchdown out of it.

The Bears still came out with the win, but it was a smart play by Rainey.

Kiko Alonso is a lover, not a fighter

Alonso could have sent Taylor Gabriel into the Mercedes-Benz Stadium turf on this one without penalty.

Instead, he decided to carry the small-statured Gabriel 15 yards. It was the most loving moment of the week in a game that can be violent:

It was a funny and nice move by Alonso. He could have easily driven Gabriel into the ground and instead carried him like a baby.

Good on you, Kiko.

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!”

Bell scored a touchdown against the Chiefs and decided to treat the goal post like a punching bag. It resulted in a penalty for Bell, even though the NFL eased up on its lame celebration penalty rules.

Look at him to go work on this thing:

SB Nation’s Norf Philly and alleged fighting correspondent, Tyler Tynes, kindly offered up analysis of Bell’s bag work:

“Ol boy is a better rapper than a boxer and he ain’t a good rapper. Ya mans 26 barely bends his knees. Footwork worse than Rick Ross doing the moonwalk. He doubles up on a jab then goes to the body then throws a looping-ass hook almost all with the same hand. Good lord. Put some momentum into those hooks, son. Twerk ya hips, beloved. This why Alabaster Anderson Silva aka Conor McGregor thought he could just walk into a ring with SummerWeather. I ain’t sayin’ I’d beat Le’Veon’s ass. I’m just sayin’ if I ever thought about going to the hellhole that is Pittsburgh with bad intentions, this ain’t deturrin’ me.”

Don’t sleep on JuJu Smith-Schuster filming Bell going to work on the bag.

The flag was worth it — keep doing you, Le’Veon. Time for the NFL to add the goal post as a prop acceptable in the rulebook.

OTHER THINGS FROM WEEK 6:

Sunday scores:

Vikings 23, Packers 10

Patriots 24, Jets 17

Dolphins 20, Falcons 17

Saints 52, Lions 38

Washington 26, 49ers 24

Bears 27, Ravens 24 (OT)

Texans 33, Browns 17

Cardinals 38, Buccaneers 33

Rams 27, Jaguars 17

Steelers 19, Chiefs 13

Chargers 17, Raiders 16

Giants 23, Broncos 10


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