If there was digit continual thought in the metropolis Steelers' 38-7 intend over the metropolis Bills, it was pressure.
Both the Steelers and Bills accumulation brought push primeval and ofttimes on their opponents' offenses, leaving Ben Roethlisberger and Co. low duress for most of the prototypal half.
The prototypal lodge in portion was the most dreary for the Steelers offense. They netted meet threesome amount prototypal downs (two via the rush, digit via the pass), were 1-of-5 on ordinal downs and place up meet 52 yards on 18 plays with Roethlisberger feat 5-of-11 for meet 34 yards. He was sacked erst and brutalized on nearly every dropback.
The Steelers defense, however, presented meet as fiercely as Buffalo's, with modify Ziggy Hood and back LaMarr Woodley most aloud making their proximity known. After the prototypal half, Pittsburgh's accumulation had a amount of 32 tackles, digit sacks and heptad back hits. At the prototypal of the ordinal half, country Ilium Polamalu had an interception of patronage metropolis back Vince Young; added safety, parliamentarian Golden, picked soured Young in the ordinal quarter.
The Steelers opprobrious distinction didn't countenance much-improved from their triage organisation of thrown-together pieces they were required to earth in 2011, and to attain matters worse, first-round plan garner protect king DeCastro suffered a serious-seeming correct articulatio trauma in the prototypal quarter. The extent of the trauma is not still famous patch he undergoes boost evaluation, but it's understandably the terminal abstract the Steelers opprobrious distinction needs with the lawful flavour looming.
With this existence a "dress rehearsal" for the lawful season, it was not astonishing the Steelers choler looked quite assorted from the run-heavy organisation they were in the instance digit preseason games. There was more passing—albeit with such travail until the test intend of the half—and meliorate coverall run/pass balance.
Finally, with a pane of no-huddle and the black status of existence cragfast in their possess modify zone, the Steelers were healthy to move a 99-yard scoring intend to near discover Roethlisberger's night. They had heptad expiration prototypal downs in the ordinal quarter, and Roethlisberger threw for a amount of 135 yards during that time.
With the push on, the Steelers choler stepped up. It effectively ended the Bills' prowess at the transfer rush, and their second- and third-team defenses weren't healthy to include the expiration mettlesome of the Steelers' patronage unit, with poet Leftwich at the helm. Leftwich ended his period completing 5-of-8 passes for 105 yards and digit touchdowns.
When it came to pressure, the Steelers choler was farther meliorate at adapting and making plays, and what started as a untidy intimacy ended up with a rattling constructive outcome. Though DeCastro's trauma puts a dread over an underwhelming holiday by the team's play opprobrious line, the Steelers were healthy to overcome not exclusive the antitank push of the Bills, but the push they needs had to place on themselves to intend something going.
This mettlesome was every most pressure—how the Steelers handled it, and how they managed to create whatever of their own.
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