George Pickens blames snow, wind after Browns upset Steelers: 'Conditions played huge, huge part'

The latest variation of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns' rivalry was a thriller.

The Steelers entered Thursday night's AFC North crippled connected a five-game winning streak and were wide considered the favourite to win. But Pittsburgh mislaid 24-19. 

Browns prima moving backmost Nick Chubb scored a go-ahead touchdown with 57 seconds remaining successful the crippled to assistance unafraid Cleveland's victory. 

Much of the speech before, during and aft the crippled centered astir the wintry premix players and fans endured. 

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Calvin Austin III (19) of the Pittsburgh Steelers celebrates with teammate George Pickens (14) aft scoring a 23-yard touchdown against the Cleveland Browns during the 4th fourth astatine Huntington Bank Field Nov. 21, 2024, successful Cleveland.  (Nick Cammett/Getty Images)

Steelers prima George Pickens, who finished the crippled with 48 receiving yards, pointed to the upwind conditions erstwhile helium addressed the upset. 

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"Conditions played a huge, immense portion successful today’s game. I don’t truly deliberation the Cleveland Browns are a bully squad astatine all," Pickens told reporters aft the game. "I deliberation the conditions benignant of saved them today.

Snow falls astatine Huntington Bank Field successful Cleveland arsenic the Browns instrumentality connected the Pittsburgh Steelers Thursday. (Nate Ulrich/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

"The snow, the conditions were truthful bad," helium continued. "I don't adjacent deliberation the QB could spot sometimes. And erstwhile you got conditions similar that, astatine the opponents' location field, it benignant of plays successful their favor."

The snowfall picked up successful the 2nd fractional of the game. While the upwind conditions were thing some teams had to contend with, Pickens' assertion suggests the Steelers fell to 8-3 owed to the snowfall and wind.

Pickens' postgame comments were not the lone happening helium did to gully attraction Thursday night.

On the last play of the game, Steelers backmost Russell Wilson tossed a Hail Mary toward the extremity zone. Pickens was successful the country of the Hail Mary, but Browns cornerback Greg Newsome II was guarding Pickens and efficaciously took the wide receiver retired of the play.

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens looks backmost for a punishment arsenic helium misses a drawback against the Cleveland Browns during the 2nd 4th astatine Huntington Bank Field Stadium successful Cleveland Nov. 21, 2024. (Scott Galvin/Imagn Images)

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Cameras missed the opening of what looked to beryllium a skirmish, but a speedy cookware appeared to amusement Pickens and Newsome getting tangled up adjacent the stands. The camera past showed Pickens being held backmost by 2 members of stadium information adjacent the seats. One instrumentality was adjacent holding Pickens' arm, starring to archetypal speculation Pickens was getting into it with fans.

The Steelers play the Bengals adjacent week.

Fox News' Scott Thompson contributed to this report.

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