Steelers WR Calvin Austin III explains why he caused Aaron Rodgers to lose his cool after costly interception vs. Seahawks
Here’s what happened.
The Pittsburgh Steelers ought to just flush the Seattle Seahawks game and move on to Week 3. Because on Sunday, the team was greatly flawed in all three areas of the game.
The offense was the least of the concerns following another lackluster showing from the defense and an all-time brain burp from Kaleb Johnson on special teams, but they were far from efficient, which was proven by a red zone interception that should have been a TD. Calvin Austin III dropped the pass, and Aaron Rodgers was visibly upset, with Austin explaining what went wrong.
“That’s most definitely on me,” said Austin after the game. “That interception wasn’t on 8 [Aaron Rodgers] or on Pat [Freiermuth] or anything. If I had just stayed on the front pylon, it probably would have been a touchdown. I was in scramble rules. I was in the wrong spot, just trying to make a play. But I gotta do what I’m coached and not, in the spur of the moment, do something to try to make a play.”
Calvin Austin III owns up to interception vs. Seahawks
“Cal [Calvin Austin] is the best kid ever, but he probably should have just stayed in the flat there,” added Aaron Rodgers after the game. “He knows it. I mean, or if he was kind of stealing it from Pat [Freiermuth] or just catch it and put it away, score a touchdown. But Cal’s the best kid, and it sucks because he’s such a great kid. But unfortunately, that whole sequence, you know, took points off the board.”
Austin is in year four now. He is the Steelers’ WR2, and he has to know better. Even at this advanced stage of his career, one thing Rodgers isn’t going to do is throw interceptions. He protects the ball at all costs. In fact, if he threw an interception in the game, I thought it would have been the one that clapped off Derion Kendrick’s hands, not the one that Austin dropped.
But that’s just how the game goes sometimes.
Pittsburgh Steelers News
Kaleb Johnson won’t admit who is at fault when asked about the play that cost the Steelers the game against Seattle
A messy situation.
