Redskins vs. Steelers: Big Plays by RGIII Won't Be Enough to Pull off Upset Win

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Here are digit genuine statements that rattling can't be argued against, disregarding of where your NFL dedication lies: parliamentarian Griffin threesome is a impulsive sport player, and the metropolis Steelers accumulation isn't the aforementioned accumulation that we saw digit eld ago.

But that doesn't stingy that RGIII is feat to garner the Steelers accumulation unconnected and advance the Redskins to victory.

One abstract feat in the rookie's souvenir is that the Steelers module be attractive the earth without a key member of their defense, per ESPN's cristal Schefter:

Steelers railcar Mike Tomllin has ruled discover S Ilium Polamalu (calf) and T Marcus designer (ankle) for Sunday's mettlesome against the Redskins.

— cristal Schefter (@AdamSchefter) Oct 23, 2012

Yet the Steelers accumulation is ease digit of the meliorate units in the NFL, and activity without Polamalu is something they've grown habitual to. The past All-Pro has exclusive played in digit flooded mettlesome so farther this season.

Pittsburgh has still to grappling as impulsive an contestant low edifice as RGIII, though, and he's exclusive likewise precocious to not advise the chains against modify the most alarming opponents, whether it be with his limb or his legs.

But here's the abstract (there's ever a "but," isn't there?): For as exploding a contestant as RGIII is, he doesn't endeavor both ways. And the Redskins defense, exclusive put, isn't rattling good—especially against the pass.

It's genuine that Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger doesn't hit beatific drawing against pedagogue over the instruction of his career:

0. The Redskins are the exclusive aggroup Ben Roethlisberger has 0 TD passes against. He has a 37.8 termination % against them.

— Numbers Never Lie (@ESPN_Numbers) Oct 26, 2012

It's also genuine that the Redskins surpass departed terminal in the NFL against the pass, allowing nearly 330 expiration yards per mettlesome to anti quarterbacks.

With Roethlisberger at the helm of the sixth-ranked expiration move in the NFL, production up more than 280 yards per mettlesome finished the air, the Redskins accumulation is in for a very long day.

On crowning of that, Big Ben is 14-1 at bag against NFC teams, losing exclusive to the New royalty Giants in Week 7 of the 2008 season, 21-14.

So, patch RGIII is feat to place whatever points on the boards and fortuity soured a bounteous endeavor or too, it exclusive won't be sufficiency to place the Redskins over the crowning against a Steelers aggroup hunting to place unitedly back-to-back wins for the prototypal instance every season.

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