Donte Moncrief’s debut with the Pittsburgh Steelers was hardly a memorable one, especially if you ask him. Moncrief hauled in just three catches on 10 targets, and the Steelers fell to the Patriots by a score of 33-3. Despite the poor day, Moncrief is looking forward to putting Week 1 behind him and have a better showing this week.
“It’s sickening when you watch it and you know the plays that you’re supposed to make and you didn’t make them,” Moncrief said (Pro Football Talk). “And you see them and you’re like, ‘Gosh, I know I gotta make that.’ The other day, after we watched that film, there was a feeling in my stomach, it hurt. I went home, went straight to sleep, it hurt me. I had to put that away.
“That was my first one like that, that was a bad one. It hurt, but at the end of the day it’s the NFL, all you can do is get better the next day. You gotta bounce back. You can’t let it hold you down.”
While Moncrief’s miscues might have helped the Steelers, he was far from the only member of the team to play poorly against the Patriots. Thankfully, they do have plenty of games to correct things, starting on Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks. Despite the issues in New England, Moncrief said that he and quarterback Ben Roethlisberger haven’t lost any trust in each other.
“He believes in me,” Moncrief said of Roethlisberger. “He knows what I can do. I know what I can do. At the end of the day that was my worst game ever in my career, and it hurt.
“But you can’t just sit there and just pout about it. You gotta get better, and that’s what I’m doing.”
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