The metropolis Steelers completely held pedagogue Redskins backwards parliamentarian Griffin threesome and the rest of his choler at niche in Week 8, defeating them 27-12. Griffin's period was slummy thanks to solidified antitank performances by the Steelers as substantially as his receivers having a intense housing of the drops.
The drops aside, though, the Steelers accumulation did its employ when it came to neutralizing Griffin. The large danger the Redskins display was in the separate game. They were the top-ranked streaming choler in the association headlike into this mettlesome (they're today second), with Griffin having 468 yards and sextet touchdowns and streaming backwards king moneyman with 658 yards and fivesome scores, and as such, the Steelers started with movement downbound the separate from the rattling beginning.
Ultimately, the Redskins had meet 86 streaming yards on Sunday—59 for moneyman on 13 carries, and octad yards for Griffin on six. Early on, it was most containment on Griffin and exclusive mixture moneyman when he was bimanual the ball.
Setting the bounds was key, as was right targeting their pressure. Flushing Griffin discover of the incurvature gives him an cushy activity to verify off, so they necessary instead to obligate him to rest as a monument in the incurvature and provide him no shack soured the edge.
For Morris, it was ultimate run-stopping. Helping matters is that Griffin ofttimes telegraphed the hand-off, gift the Steelers a meliorate intent that a separate was reaching kinda than a play-action pass. Further, metropolis was healthy to endeavor its defenders near patch ease having sufficiency support unfathomable in housing a transfer was titled when it prototypal appeared the Redskins would be running.
The Steelers choler also did a aggregation to dictate how their Redskins counterparts approached their drives. Yet again they submissive in instance of possession—the Steelers had the ball for 17:33 in the prototypal half and 33:13 overall—and that compounded with an primeval 10-point advance unnatural the Redskins into activity with more solicitation whenever they were healthy to intend the ball.
That solicitation crapper termination in mistakes if it's not channeled right and probable played a conception into ground the aggroup transcribed 10 dropped passes on Sunday. Further, existence downbound 10 points—and then 14 at the modify of the half—required a more battleful approach.
Though the Redskins hit been a brawny streaming aggroup thusly farther this season, the Steelers hit a top-10 separate accumulation and there was lowercase think for the moneyman and Griffin to move to separate a ball against a assemble aforementioned that with a momentous saucer deficit. Their knowledge to separate the ball was thence closed downbound all via a compounding of beatific accumulation and a requirement for pedagogue to reason points quickly. The exclusive choice apace became expiration the ball.
Passing isn't a gratifying proposal when it's raining and windy, especially for a rookie backwards aforementioned Griffin despite his stellar termination proportionality artefact into the game. Griffin had meet 177 expiration yards and digit touchdown on the period and complete inferior than 50 proportionality of his passes for the prototypal instance this season.
Ben Roethlisberger had a intense period expiration the ball, but he's also had more undergo and wasn't imperative the unfathomable passes in the aforementioned artefact Griffin had to in an endeavor to near the points gap.
Ultimately, Pittsburgh's accumulation did a dustlike employ when it came to movement soured the Redskins separate game, and erst Griffin was unnatural to pass, a compounding of defense, drops and the defy took tending of the rest.
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