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Five things we learned as Miami won in Pittsburgh for the first time in 23 years:

CLAY IS MORE LIKE CONCRETE: The third-year tight end has come into his own this season and his combination of size and strength proved too much for the Steelers. Clay caught seven passes for 97 yards. He beat Cortez Allen, a cornerback, deep for a 40-yard gain in the first half and discarded Allen and Troy Polamalu on his 12-yard game-winner.
Clay caught a short pass from Tannehill then brushed off arm tackles by both Steelers before skipping into the end zone.
"I was trying to get the ball out," Polamalu said. "I've just got to make the tackle."
STEELERS ARE SUNK: Pittsburgh's loss dropped the Steelers two games behind the Dolphins and Ravens and one behind the New York Jets for the last playoff berth with three games to go. Pittsburgh is also assured of a second straight non-winning season for the first time this millennium.
"It definitely (stinks) man," wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders said. "What do you guys want me to say? I'm going to stop playing football? No."
DANIEL THOMAS CAN MOTOR: The Dolphins lost leading rusher Lamar Miller to a concussion in the third quarter. It hardly mattered. Thomas finished with 105 yards rushing and a score, including a 55-yard zig-zag through the Pittsburgh secondary in the fourth quarter to set up Clay's second score.
"I was looking at the defender, I think it was Ryan Clark," Thomas said. "He looked like he didn't really want to tackle me, so I tried to make something happen."
ANTONIO BROWN'S LEFT FOOT IS TOO WIDE: The Steelers nearly pulled off a stunner during a frantic final play.
Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger hit Sanders for a 20-yard gain, setting off a series of flips and tosses that ended with Brown streaking down the left sideline toward the end zone. Brown celebrated while he crossed the goal line, but an official correctly ruled the left edge of Brown's left foot was out of bounds.
"I thought I had it clean," Brown said. "I thought I separated really good getting to the sideline, but it didn't seem quite enough."
MIKE TOMLIN STAYED OUT OF SIGHT: A week after earning a $100,000 fine for interfering with a kickoff return in a loss to Baltimore, the Pittsburgh Steelers coach stayed well off the field on special teams plays time. Small consolation in a season that looks like another step back for one of the NFL's marquee franchises
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Those last few words are telling. "One of the NFL's marquee franchises" is why they seeming got away with leading with the head all game, launching themselves, and an illegal forward pass at the end. Only the dirty hit on Misi was flagged because they have no choice.

I'm glad we beat this "marquee" team
 
We broke a few streaks too. Ended the Pittsburgh winning streak and ended the streak of losing every game after a victory over the Jets. Also, we were the only team in the league not to have scored more than 28 points and that was our first TD in the 4th quarter in like 8 games.
 
Ruckus45 said:
Those last few words are telling. "One of the NFL's marquee franchises" is why they seeming got away with leading with the head all game, launching themselves, and an illegal forward pass at the end. Only the dirty hit on Misi was flagged because they have no choice. I'm glad we beat this "marquee" team
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. It seemed like the Steelers defenders were leading with their helmets and launching themselves every single play. Low class all around. I lost a lot of respect for this organization yesterday.
 
Ya spiff, it's not that I'm even mad about hitting with your facemask. Hell, I was thought to hit that way. It's just that its a penalty now in the NFL and is a priority to enforce. With the concussion protocol as it is you have to enforce that so teams don't lose players during the game needlessly (Miller). I hope to see a lot of fines for that, but not holding my breath.
 
How about that fins loss stat after beating jets?! WoooooHoooooo!!
 
Him stepping out was Devine intervention. They let the forward pass go, so someone was looking to blow the game dead.
 
Big ben was a forward pass to brown -No FLAG
Misi was hit hard from behind, lots of leading with the helmet, the steelers are DIRTY!
 
Spiff said:
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. It seemed like the Steelers defenders were leading with their helmets and launching themselves every single play. Low class all around. I lost a lot of respect for this organization yesterday.
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Clark had 3 cheap shots on one drive - finally got called on the third one. Serves him right that he knocked his own guy into next week. If Hartline doesn't duck, he's probably concussed or worse right now.
 
I hate the Steelers more than the Jets....there a lot of Steeler fans in my area some of them are my friends, but all of them are a-holes when it comes to football. They have winning seasons every year it seems and they bitch and moan about every loss like they are supposed to win all the time. That's part of the reason I don't Cowher to coach the Phins, he's Pittsburgh's sloppy seconds
 
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