"The Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers showed Daunte Culpepper he would be pressured heavily from the Lions' opening play Sunday afternoon at Ford Field.

Culpepper, who made his first start of the season filling in for rookie Matthew Stafford, was thrown to the turf on his first play by Steelers' linebacker James Harrison.

Harrison consistently harassed Culpepper, collecting three of Pittsburgh's seven sacks during the Steelers' 28-20 victory.

The Steelers ended Culpepper's comeback bid, sacking him four times on the Lions' final drive, including three straight after he advanced them to Pittsburgh's 21 in the final minutes. Culpepper's fourth-down pass from the 45 was batted away near the end zone with 1:09 left.

Former Michigan linebacker LaMarr Woodley and cornerback William Gay each had a sack and combined for another during the Steelers' final four sacks.

"Right play call and everybody out there doing their job," Woodley said of the Steelers' defense on the Lions' final series. "We were able to get in there and make sacks. Not only were they losing downs, but they were also losing yards and getting further away from the end zone. He (Gay) did his job (on the corner blitz). He got one sack and forced another.

"Early on they were doing a lot of screen plays and at the end they were racing against the time a little bit."

Harrison agreed."