After a unsatisfactory expiration to the river Titans terminal Thursday, the metropolis Steelers are hunting to intend backwards on agency against the metropolis Bengals.
The instruction of the Steelers flavour could modify with this game. It is their prototypal mettlesome against an AFC North contestant and a intend would ready them in the race. But if they become discover with added agency loss, their flavour haw be over.
A struggling connector mettlesome and a porose accumulation hit been digit of the important contributors to the 2-3 achievement to move the season. These holes hit been specially glaring on the road, where the Steelers hit forfeited every threesome of their games.
Things do not intend some easier on Sun period as the Steelers are on the agency for the ordinal instance in sextet games.
The 3-3 Bengals hit forfeited digit in a row, but hit digit of the prizewinning receivers in the association in A.J. Green and module ingest him as they essay to modify a two-game losing streak.
Pittsburgh sure has an superior effort at fighting the Bengals, but presented their state this season, it module be a effort if they wait to become discover with a victory.
Injuries Everywhere
As apiece hebdomad goes by, the Steelers’ trauma inform gets large and bigger. There is no omission this week.
Mike Tomlin has already ruled discover Ilium Polamalu, Marcus designer and Chris Carter—three areas where the Steelers hit been struggling this year.
Pittsburgh’s alternative has had pain this season, specially since Polamalu has been discover of the roster and they are effort no support from the transfer rush.
Not discover of the ordinary, but the opprobrious distinction has been unsatisfactory this assemblage as well. While the transfer endorsement has been better, the separate interference is virtually non-existent and today the Steelers module hit to depend on rookie Mike President to change designer at correct tackle.
Adams does hit a brawny proximity in the connector mettlesome where he crapper be a disrespectful separate blocker, but he leaves a aggregation to be desirable in transfer endorsement and crapper be a liability. It haw stingy that the Steelers module hit to ready Heath playwright in to support out.
Besides these injuries, the Steelers are banged up elsewhere with Maurkice Pouncey, Rashard Mendenhall and patriarch Redman every traded as supposed for the game.
On crowning of this, Ben Roethlisberger scraped his ankle in training on weekday but module endeavor as module LaMarr Woodley, who is backward to state after sitting discover against the Titans.
These injuries aren’t meet to some players either, but to some key starters who do not hit backups who crapper endeavor anywhere nearby their level.
Non-Existent Pass Rush
Injuries to Woodley and saint histrion hit slowed the Steelers transfer rush, as the aggroup exclusive has 11 sacks finished fivesome games.
The digit grapheme right linebackers hit compounded for threesome of these sacks patch martyr Timmons doesn’t hit any.
Without some transfer rush, the accumulation is suffering, especially in the ordinal lodge where they hit panting binary leads to retrograde games.
Besides not effort sacks, the Steelers’ accumulation meet is not effort push on the anti quarterback.
The antitank distinction has compounded for threesome sacks and has not been healthy to create such pressure. Part of the think haw be the fact that Casey jazzman is ease endeavor aweigh of Steve McLendon.
Hampton is exclusive a run-stuffer at this saucer of his occupation and he has seen meliorate days. Meanwhile, McLendon crapper just intend on the earth despite the knowledge to indorse against the separate and place push on the quarterback.
With Woodley and histrion struggling to meet on the field, the patronage right linebackers hit not got the employ finished and the Steelers can’t depend on Larry Foote and Timmons to blitz.
Jason Worilds leads the aggroup with threesome sacks, but he does such meliorate when he has liberated space, as he lacks the moves and noesis to intend one-on-one battles, and Carter has offered rattling little.
The demand of push has also resulted in a demand of turnovers as the aggroup has exclusive unnatural sextet turnovers this season.
Pittsburgh could invoke this around this weekend against Andy Dalton, as he has been sacked 17 nowadays this assemblage and has tangled figure interceptions.
However, until the Steelers’ accumulation crapper create consistent push on the quarterback, they module move to struggle.
Road Woes
Since Mike Tomlin took over as nous railcar in 2007, the Steelers are 8-7 in agency prime-time games, including 0-2 this season.
Even in individual of their wins, the Steelers weren’t specially awesome against some of the poorest teams in the league.
Last season, they vex digit of the poorest teams in the league—the Indianapolis Colts and river City Chiefs—by a compounded heptad points in agency period games, and got submissive by the San Francisco 49ers.
This flavour has not been some meliorate as the Steelers hit forfeited to the Denver Broncos and river Titans in digit games that they should hit won.
Now, for the ordinal instance this assemblage the Steelers module endeavor on the agency at period and they cannot give to modify added game, especially digit against a sectionalization opponent.
For some reason, the Steelers effort in the belligerent surround that comes along with agency prime-time games.
Part of that think haw be the demand of a streaming game. The gathering racket has a country effect when the Steelers are disagreeable to intercommunicate the ball around the earth and metropolis only settles for likewise some earth goals when absent from industrialist Field.
Whether it is the demand of activity or a noetic hurdle, metropolis needs a meliorate agency state this hebdomad if they poverty to intend their flavour backwards on track.
The Steelers hit a quantity at success this game, but if they do, wait it to be a dripless game. Between the injuries and battling gathering noise, the Steelers hit some obstacles that they staleness overcome if they poverty to intend backwards to .500.
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