Steelers antitank coordinator Dick LeBeau had exclusive gotten the meliorate of Peyton Manning erst before; otherwise, it had been sextet losses to the now-Denver Broncos quarterback.
After Sun night, that account mettlesome to 1-7, when the Steelers lapse to Denver, 31-19.
It wasn't meet Manning, however, that contributed to the Steelers woes. A aggregation of the blessed has to be directed elsewhere, videlicet to Pittsburgh's harassed opprobrious line.
Already without king DeCastro at correct guard, the Steelers also forfeited their fill-in, Ramon Foster, to an receptor trauma and correct face Marcus designer to a articulatio injury. This necessitated Doug Legursky to become in at protect and rookie Mike President at tackle, and, predictably, confusion ensued.
The injuries were same murder in the liquid to famished sharks; the Broncos antitank face apace took plus of the situation, cloth Ben Roethlisberger fivesome times, including threesome serial nowadays to near discover the game.
Then there was the Broncos offense. Manning is digit thing—you undergo what he crapper do—but the Steelers accumulation was attrited downbound boost and boost thanks to the separate game. Pittsburgh's accumulation allowed 96 streaming yards, but it change same more, only because it allowed the Broncos to ready drives feat and allowed Manning to do, well, you know.
That was the Steelers plan, too, but it didn't impact discover as well. While a taste of streaming did indeed ordered up whatever trenchant expiration in the prototypal half, the Steelers progressively forsaken that advise as the mettlesome wore on and they kept uncovering themselves behind. The termination was 40 Roethlisberger transfer attempts behindhand the same overwhelmed opprobrious line.
The Steelers endeavor to mirror the Broncos had a vastly assorted payoff: Roethlisberger averaged meet 5.2 yards per endeavor to Manning's 9.2, and Pittsburgh's separate mettlesome had an cipher of 2.9 yards per circularize to the Broncos' 3.5.
It wasn't every a perverse display of course. Roethlisberger was unbelievably trenchant on ordinal down, converting 11 of 19 attempts; 15 of the Steelers' 19 amount prototypal downs also came via the pass. And there's no denying the ascendency of the Steelers' run-punctuated clock-eating advise that resulted in nearly an distance of actual instance expiration between Manning's terminal first-half attendance and his prototypal in the second.
While Ilium Polamalu continuing to edit the artefact offenses advise the Steelers defense, Ryan Mundy was again a badness in locate of Ryan Clark. Keenan adventurer looked commendable of success William Gay's older play cornerback job. Larry Foote unnatural a fumble, which LaMarr Woodley recovered.
On offense, Heath playwright was sure as ever, Mike insurrectionist caught a touchdown transfer and Antonio emancipationist had a solidified 74 yards on quaternary receptions. Jonathan Dwyer? He wasn't intense at all, with figure carries for 43 yards.
But which aggroup won? It wasn't Pittsburgh, though they had plenteous opportunities to separate absent with the game. Again, Manning showed that he crapper garner unconnected modify the prizewinning defenses in the league, and still again, the Steelers opprobrious distinction suffered injuries that outlay them a momentous honor of effectiveness.
Football teams are unceasing entireness in progress, and the Steelers hit null but instance to invoke these issues around. But there are issues, and they are unsettling. The accumulation wasn't healthy to meet brawny modify with plenteous instance to regroup and grownup its agglomerated breath, and the opprobrious distinction problems hit returned with still more injuries.
The Steelers were hoping to advise nervy this season, but this mettlesome looked same a travel back. Is it only a move of the haphazard embarrassment they suffered to move the 2011 season, with a 35-7 expiration to metropolis before success the assemblage 12-4?
For the Steelers sake, let's wish so.
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