The Pittsburgh Steelers insist they won't miss the drama Antonio Brown provided on a weekly — and sometimes daily — basis. Missing the wide receiver's record-setting production is another matter entirely.Dropped passes. No separation. Little excitement on the rare occasion they found themselves with the ball in their hands and room to run. The post-AB era in Pittsburgh began with the group called on to replace him spending most of Sunday night's one-sided 33-3 loss to the New England Patriots chicken-fighting with defensive backs as they struggled to create any sort of breathing room."We've just got make more plays for (quarterback Ben Roethlisberger) Womens Yodny Cajuste Jersey ," said Donte Moncrief, who caught three passes for just 7 yards in his Steelers' debut after being signed in March , four days after Pittsburgh sent Brown to Oakland. "It starts with the whole receiver's room, everybody on offense. We've got to be better."Way better.Roethlisberger finished 27 of 47 for 276 yards and an interception, several of the misfires coming when Moncrief or a teammate would get one or two hands on the ball only to have a New England defender rake it away like a parent admonishing a child for playing with a forbidden toy."They got away with some holds last night," Steelers slot receiver Ryan Switzer said of New England's press coverage. "But they play that, 'You're not going to call it every play' (style) so they take their chances and they won more than they didn't."The Patriots didn't just beat the Steelers, they provided a blueprint for how to keep Pittsburgh in check with Brown now working in New England.When the teams met last December, the Patriots double-covered Brown and JuJu Smith-Schuster, allowing rookie running back Jaylen Samuels to run for 142 yards in a Steelers' win. The threat of Brown gone, New England dared Pittsburgh's receivers to beat them one-on-one. They couldn't, leading to the franchise's most lopsided Week 1 loss in 22 years, all with the knowledge that Brown now works for the defending Super Bowl champions after agreeing to a one-year deal following his rapid flameout in Oakland."I'm not specifically worried about anything relative to Antonio Brown, I'm worried about the guys in the locker room," Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin said after falling to 0-4 in New England when Brady is under center. "The quality of the execution and what we did or didn't do. Antonio's been off our team for a number of months. We moved on from that stuff in March."And moved on to a new kind of drama in the process Authentic Yodny Cajuste Jersey , one where the issues might not be off the field, but on it.WHAT'S WORKINGNot much. The defense still has never intercepted Tom Brady in Foxborough and Brady's numbers in six home starts against the Steelers are hard to duplicate on a video game, let alone real life: 21 touchdowns without a pick."I like to think everything just flew off and everything was wrong so we can say 'That's not going to happen again,'" defensive tackle Cam Heyward said. "But we did some things right. Not every play was minus, but I'm going to treat it like every play was."WHAT NEEDS HELPThe offensive line. One of the league's most experienced units, one that features three Pro Bowlers, created very little push against New England's defensive front. As a result, the running game never got going. The Steelers rushed 13 times for 32 yards, 7 of them coming on a scramble by the 37-year-old Roethlisberger.James Conner managed just 21 yards on 10 carries. Samuels ran it twice for 4 yards and offensive coordinator Randy Fichtner abandoned it after Pittsburgh failed to convert a pair of short-yardage situations in the second quarter. The Steelers instead went with five-receiver sets on a fourth-and-1 and a third-and-goal later in the game, coming up empty both times.Asked if he'd prefer either he or Conner to get a handoff in those situations, Samuels nodded."That's the mindset that we have but we can't call the plays and we've got to go out there and execute whatever the offensive coordinator wants to call," Samuels said. "Of course, running backs we want the ball downhill or just in our hands, period so we can't control that."STOCK UPDevin Bush racked up 11 combined tackles in his first NFL start, showcasing the speed that made the Steelers trade up to grab the inside linebacker with the 10th overall pick. While Bush did caught up in traffic a couple of times in pass coverage Yodny Cajuste Jersey Boys , he was hardly alone in that department.STOCK DOWNMoncrief, who could very soon be challenged by James Washington for the No. 2 spot if he can't bounce back quickly.KEY NUMBER1 — The number of times in Tomlin's 12 seasons the Steelers have started 0-2. Pittsburgh began 0-4 in 2013 and missed the playoffs.NEXT STEPSHope the problems in the passing game that surfaced against New England were just necessary growing pains. Seattle (1-0) visits Heinz Field on Sunday after giving up 418 yards passing to Cincinnati's Andy Dalton. LAS VEGAS (AP) — Football fans in three states legally bet almost $185.5 million on the Super Bowl this year, with sportsbooks ending Sunday with mixed results and Nevada operators seeing the first drop in the total amount wagered on the game since 2015.The game between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams was the first major professional sporting event to be posted on the boards of sportsbooks outside Nevada. All opened after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a federal ban on wagering on sports last year.Figures released Monday by gambling regulators in Nevada show people wagered $145.94 million at the state’s 200 sportsbooks, $12.65 million less than in 2018. Sportsbooks operators in New Jersey accepted about $34.9 million in wagers and lost money, while in Mississippi, fans bet around $4.67 million at non-tribal casinos.“I would characterize it as a solid day. It wasn’t a bad day or a great day; it was right in the middle,” said Jay Kornegay, vice president of race and sports book operations at Westgate Las Vegas Superbook.Nevada’s effective monopoly on sports betting ended last spring, when the Supreme Court ruled the ban should be lifted. Casinos in seven other states — Rhode Island, Delaware, Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New Mexico — now accept wagers on sports. The list is expected to grow by next year.New Jersey gambling regulators said sportsbooks lost $4.6 million when they paid $39.5 million to those who won bets. Many gamblers backed the Patriots, who beat the Rams 13-3 and covered the spread of 2 1/2 points.Super Bowl Sunday “was by far our biggest day ever in New Jersey in terms of handle Youth Tom Brady Jerseys ,” said Joe Asher, CEO of William Hill US, which runs sportsbooks at two casinos and a racetrack in New Jersey as well as dozens of sportsbooks in Nevada. “It was really good.”He said William Hill’s take for the day “was pretty much break even win/loss. We couldn’t be more pleased overall — the retail locations were strong, especially the Ocean Resort Casino, which had an unbelievable crowd.”DraftKings, which runs mobile wagering in New Jersey along with an in-person lounge at Resorts casino, also set a new record for the amount wagered. Spokesman James Chisholm said the company paid out about $11 million in winning bets to customers, “and took a small, barely seven-figure loss.”The Westgate lost on the game itself, but did well on proposition bets — wagers on unique and various outcomes offered starting a few days ahead of the game — and on futures bets, which allow gamblers to wager on outcomes way in advance. Some bettors picked the Rams to win the title at the start of the season, for example, and lost their bet on Sunday.But one particular proposition bet had operators sweating. The Westgate and William Hill offered 500-1 and 300-1 odds respectively on no team scoring a touchdown.The game’s lone touchdown happened with seven minutes left on the fourth quarter.“We would have been carried off on a stretcher if it hit,” Asher said of the proposition bet.