Josh Dobbs's impressive preseason ended up costing Landry Jones his job.
The Pittsburgh Steelers chose to keep Dobbs and rookie Mason Rudolph as the primary backup quarterbacks behind Ben Roethlisberger when they pared the roster
to 53 on Saturday. The decision left Jones
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Dobbs made significant strides in his second training camp and ended the preseason by throwing for a touchdown and running for another in a victory over
Carolina. He completed 67 percent of his passes while playing in three of
Pittsburgh's four exhibition games and led the team in yards passing (434),
touchdowns (four) and quarterback rating (111.9).
Dobbs said afterward he wanted to continue his career with the Steelers but understood the business side of the game. The Steelers spent a third-round pick
on Rudolph last spring and Jones played capably if not spectacularly while
filling in for Roethlisberger over the last three seasons. The former Oklahoma
star went 3-2 as a starter, with eight touchdowns and seven interceptions.
Jones said before for the preseason finale he felt he was in a good position but added, "If they can cut Peyton Manning, they can cut anybody."
Now Jones finds himself looking for work. As a vested veteran, Jones does not have to clear waivers and can sign with another team immediately. Meanwhile the
Steelers enter the season with two backups behind the 36-year-old Roethlisberger
who have yet to throw a pass in the regular season, a bit of a risk for a team
with Super Bowl expectations.
Other notable cuts included running back Fitzgerald Toussaint
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Pittsburgh did keep a pair of undrafted rookie free agent linebackers in Matthew Thomas and Ola Adeniyi. Thomas ended camp with a spectacular sequence
against the Panthers in which he strip-sacked Carolina quarterback Kyle Allen,
recovered the fumble and raced 75 yards before being taken down just shy of the
goal line.
The Steelers open the season in Cleveland on Sept. 9.
WASHINGTON — With reports of their demise proven premature, the Tampa Bay Lightning will look to even their Eastern Conference Final with the Washington
Capitals when the teams meet in Game 4 on Thursday night.
With a win, the Lightning can regain the home-ice advantage — or disadvantage, as the visiting team has won the first three games — before the
teams travel to Tampa Bay for Saturday’s Game 5.
The Lightning climbed back into the series with Tuesday’s 4-2 win, improving to 4-1 on the road in the 2018 playoffs.
Steven Stamkos, Nikita Kucherov and Brayden Point each had a goal and an assist, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 36 saves as Tampa Bay built a 3-0 lead and
short-circuited Washington’s rally.
“We haven’t done anything yet
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reporters on Wednesday. “We got ourselves back in the series by playing a lot
more of a structured game and we’re confident we can do that again.”
In Game 3. the Lightning righted some of the wrongs that plagued them in Games 1 and 2, including scoring two even-strength goals — after scoring a total
of two in the first two games — and winning the special teams battle, finishing
2-for-5 on the power play while Washington went 0-for-3.
Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper also opted to juggle his top three lines and was rewarded with additional offense without hurting his defense.
“Yeah, we tweaked our lines,” Cooper told the team’s website Wednesday. “Was that the recipe? It was the way we played. That was the recipe. … We played
better as a team.”
Brett Connolly’s goal pulled the Capitals within 3-1 and Evgeny Kuznetsov scored late as Washington fell to 3-4 at home in the playoffs.
Braden Holtby made 19 saves
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Now it’s Washington’s turn to respond.
“We weren’t playing as sharp as we normally can,” Capitals coach Barry Trotz told nhl.com. “We weren’t executing the way we normally did in the last couple
of games. We were just off a little bit, and you can’t be off in this game to
have success. We will be better next game.”
Washington could get a boost if center Nicklas Backstrom, who has missed the last four games with an injured hand, returns. He has been skating with the team
and participated in Wednesday’s optional practice.
Backstrom had 21 goals and 50 assists in the regular season and has three goals and 10 assists in 11 playoff games.
“You can’t replace a guy like him,” Jay Beagle told the Washington Post. “He’s one of our key leaders and one of our best players. He’s a guy who makes
this team click and makes us go. Obviously to get him back would be huge.”
This is the fifth time since conference finals started in 1982 that the first three games were all won by the road team, according to STATS, Inc.
The 1995 series (New Jersey-Philadelphia) and the 2004 series (Calgary-San Jose) both had the road team win the first five games before the home team
closed it out in Game 6. There has not been a best-of-five or best-of-seven
playoff series in which the road team won every game.
Washington will look to end the visiting streak in this series.
“You have to have a short memory and get the rest
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4-0, right? We all know it’s going to be a tough series. We just have to relax a
little bit and stay positive.”
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