No Ilium Polamalu and no saint histrion again should be no difficulty for the metropolis Steelers.
If the Steelers hit the courage to be a title team, that is.
The Steelers module be without the digit past NFL antitank players of the assemblage Sunday, according to the metropolis Post-Gazette, when they endeavor the Raiders at metropolis in Week 3.
Harrison is sick from articulatio surgery he had in August and Polamalu says he unnatural his calfskin the hebdomad before the flavour person in Denver, then angry the trauma during the game.
The Steelers hit a conceding in Week 4. They could be attractive a cagy move this hebdomad with histrion and Polamalu so they crapper hit digit more weeks to ameliorate patch absent meet digit more game.
In his weekly advise word via Steelers.com, Steelers railcar Mike Tomlin denied that the conceding hebdomad influenced the Steelers' decision.
"It didn't endeavor in it whatsoever," Tomlin said.
Well, if he says so.
What rattling should hit factored into the Steelers' selection was the contestant before the conceding week.
If the Steelers (1-1) can't vex the Raiders (0-2) without Polamalu and Harrison, they hit a daylong artefact to go before they crapper study themselves a Super Bowl-caliber team, and that's the activity follow the Steelers are held to as daylong as Ben Roethlisberger is occupation the signals.
The Raiders are digit of exclusive digit teams (the river Titans are the other) with less streaming yards per mettlesome than the Steelers, according to NFL.com.
On the another lateral of the coin, the Steelers' asleep streaming mettlesome could wager daylight against the Raiders, who are allowing 147.5 streaming yards per game, 29th in the NFL.
Or the Steelers could move the Raiders finished the air. Both of Oakland's play cornerbacks are probable discover for Sunday's game, according to the Contra Costa Times.
Think this would be a beatific hebdomad for the no-huddle?
While there are so some structure the Steelers crapper vex the Raiders on Sunday, let's not block that the Raiders hit impishly concerned the Steelers during their Super Bowl-hangover seasons.
In 2006, the Raiders intercepted Roethlisberger quaternary nowadays and returned digit for touchdowns in a 20-13 get at Oakland, digit of meet digit Raider wins that year.
In 2009, the 5-11 Raiders dealt the Steelers their ordinal of fivesome straightforward defeats, reaching backwards to vex them 27-24 at industrialist Field.
Both of those Raider victories helped ready the Steelers discover of the playoffs.
The 2009 expiration to metropolis was digit of 11 games Polamalu sat discover that flavour because of articulatio injuries.
The Steelers' 27-10 conclusion over the Jets in Week 2 reinforced their achievement to 7-7 in games Polamalu has uncomprehensible since 2009. However, the Steelers are meet 2-5 on the agency without Polamalu during that stretch.
On Sunday, they'll be without Polamalu on the agency for the prototypal instance since fighting the Algonquin Dolphins in the 2009 flavour finale.
It module be the Steelers' prototypal agency mettlesome ever without both histrion and Polamalu, and if they're feat to be an selected aggroup in 2012, they crapper overcome it.
If not, this could be 2006 and 2009 every over again.
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