With the 2025 season on the horizon, Steelers.com is bringing you Looking Back, where a game against each of our opponents is highlighted. In this edition, it’s the New England Patriots.<\/p>\n
Steelers 25, New England Patriots 17
October 30, 2011
Heinz Field (Now Acrisure Stadium)<\/p>\n
The Patriots came into Pittsburgh with quarterback Tom Brady holding a 6-1 record against the Steelers, and most people outside of Steelers Nation thinking he would extend his winning ways.<\/p>\n
On this day, though, it would be Ben Roethlisberger who was the quarterback everyone was talking about.<\/p>\n
Roethlisberger completed 36 of 50 passes for 365 yards and two touchdowns, connecting with 10 different receivers while putting up his numbers.<\/p>\n
“He’s a competitor, not only him but us offensively,” said Coach Mike Tomlin. “It’s more than just the quarterback. They get a lot of attention and rightfully so, but I liked the response of our unit under those circumstances.”<\/p>\n
It wasn’t just the offense that had a solid day. The defense held Brady to 198 yards passing and sacked him three times, while holding the Patriots ground game to just 43 yards.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes you have to change up your scheme a little bit,” said linebacker LaMarr Woodley. “When somebody knows your defense well, sometimes you have to give them a different look. We did today, and it was successful.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 2025 season on the horizon, Steelers.com is bringing you Looking Back, where a game against each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[198,7,4463,1167,249,2326,2094,6,914,208,915],"class_list":{"0":"post-216909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-featured","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-history","11":"tag-new-england","12":"tag-new-england-patriots","13":"tag-newengland","14":"tag-newenglandpatriots","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-non-sponsored","17":"tag-patriots","18":"tag-sights-and-sounds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114874472432966624","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}