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The 2009 Pittsburgh Steelers have been marked by inconsistency, injuries, and just plain bad kickoff coverage.

Share + Nov 23, 2009 10:45 pm US/Eastern Reporting Stephanie Watson While Deshea Townsend's fundraiser was a fun evening featuring Steelers helmet art to benefit his foundation Pay It Forward, Sunday's costly loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in overtime weighed heavy on his and his teammates' minds.

Okay. Everyone take a deep breath. First, the positive. The Steelers are still alive in the division courtesy of Cincinnati's unthinkable loss to the lowly Oakland Raiders.

Watching Big Ben spend most of Sunday afternoon flat on his back, covered in red jerseys is the sort of thing that would send even the most mild-mannered of Steelers fans into a frenzy.

The Kansas City Chiefs scored a touchdown with 4:54 left in the fourth quarter to send today's game against the Steelers into overtime at 24-24. After getting burned by two Ben Roethlisberger interceptions that were turned into 10 points, the Steelers used a turnover of their own to retake the lead at 24-17 with 8:35 left in the game.

Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall was limited to 13 yards on 13 carries against the Bengals Sunday.

Bernard Scott ran right by Jeff Reed in route to a 96-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.

The Kansas City Chiefs host the Pittsburgh Steelers as they look for their first back-to-back wins of the season.A To get the low down on the Steelers, I sat down with Matt Loede.A Matt is the Steelers correspondent for Fanball and gives you everything you need to know at Steelers Mill .

Will_from_Freehold_NJ: Greetings Ed!! We missed you last week! Here we go again, special teams, I mean, not so special teams!! What can Tomlin do to fix this glaring weakness? Kick out-of-bounds? Geez, this is getting ridiculous!! Ed Bouchette: Well, he fired Arnold Harrison today and brought Donovan Woods up from the practice squad.

Troy Polamalu almost certainly won't play Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs, but the Steelers probably couldn't have gotten much better news on the knee that the All-Pro safety re-injured earlier this week.

Ben Roethlisberger felt out of sync all day in the Pittsburgh Steelers' offense.

The Steelers put linebacker Arnold Harrison on waivers. At least one head rolled because of the inability of the Steelers' kickoff team to make a tackle in the past four games, and coach Mike Tomlin even fired a zinger at his own return specialist as he tries to correct a problem that may have cost them the AFC North Division title.

As a concession to potential injury and their status on the team, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin relieved Pro Bowl outside linebacker James Harrison and starting defensive end Brett Keisel of important special teams responsibilities.

Troy Polamalu reinjured his left knee in the first quarter Sunday. The Steelers' defense that played without Troy Polamalu for all but one series Sunday likely will have to do it again without him for one game, two, maybe three.

Today the Pittsburgh Steelers suffered a terrible defeat at the hands of the Cincinnati Bengals.

It was a different Steelers team, at a different point of the season. All of the pieces were in place on offense.

Ryan Clark News: The Pittsburgh Steelers are playing it safe with Clark and holding him out of the team's game at Denver.

It was Steelers coach Mike Tomlin's 40th game as a coach. It was a playoff atmosphere, and for a half it had the feel of a playoff football game as it was 7-3. The second half was a different ball game as the Steelers took home a 28-10 win over the Broncos.

The Steelers might have to answer to the Law in the Wild West on Monday night as a familiar face, Alliquippa native Ty Law was just signed by the Broncos and is expected to see action.

The Steelers looked to have this game all wrapped-up, leading 27-10 in the fourth quarter, but that's when the Broncos offense exploded, scoring 17 points in the final five minutes of play to turn Monday night's contest into one of the most furious finishes of the season.