Pittsburgh is scoring 16.7 points per game to rank 28th out of 32 teams. The Steelers have won their past five regular-season meetings with the Packers, but enter Sunday’s game in the AFC North cellar after losing at home to Las Vegas and Cincinnati the past two weeks. (James Jones) on a post late in that game to put us ahead, and then Big Ben took them down to beat us there right at the end. We were pretty explosive on offense, hit Greg (Jennings) down the middle for I think it was an 85-yard touchdown (actually 83), then hit J.J. “I remember the ’09 game very well,” the 37-year-old Rodgers said. The Steelers are the only NFL team Rodgers hasn’t faced at Lambeau Field as a starting quarterback.
The only regular-season matchup between Rodgers and Roethlisberger came in 2009, when the Steelers edged the Packers 37-36 in Pittsburgh. Rodgers’ lone Super Bowl appearance was a 31-25 win over Roethlisberger’s Steelers on Feb. Green Bay had Matt Flynn at quarterback for the 2013 game and Brett Hundley for the 2017 matchup. Roethlisberger led the Steelers to a 38-31 victory in 2013 and a 31-28 triumph in 2017.
It’s pretty cool to watch his mastery of the game.”Īlthough the Steelers have won two regular-season games with the Packers since that Super Bowl, Rodgers didn’t play either time because separate collarbone injuries. “But it’s still an honor to share a stadium with one of the greatest and a guy that I admire, and a lot of people admire, that has just done it at such a high level for a long time. “It’s the old cliché - everyone says it’s the quarterbacks against each other, and then we’ll say, ‘No, we play against the defense,’" the 39-year-old Roethlisberger said. That finally changes Sunday when the Packers (2-1) host the Steelers (1-2) in just the third overall matchup between the two potential Hall of Famers. (AP) - Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers and Pittsburgh’s Ben Roethlisberger haven’t faced off as starting quarterbacks since the Packers defeated the Steelers in the Super Bowl a decade ago.
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