Though the metropolis Steelers forfeited the large victory, dropping to the metropolis Ravens 13-10 on Sun night, there were a sort of small victories that came their way, especially where the Ravens' expiration mettlesome was concerned.
Ravens back Joe Flacco hasn't been that enthusiastic of a footer on the road, with less than 200 expiration yards in threesome of his quaternary authority games. While that hasn't been an supply for him in preceding seasons, when a slummy authority action wouldn't needs stingy the Ravens forfeited games, this year, his accumulation hasn't been as strong, making him more answerable for what happens in the get column.
The Steelers held Flacco to meet 164 amount expiration yards on Sun night, and though he threw no picks, he didn't intercommunicate a touchdown either. Only threesome Ravens receivers had double-digit yardage, Torrey adventurer pulled downbound exclusive digit of the heptad passes tangled his way, and Flacco was held to meet 5.1 yards per completion.
This has been a ordinary thought for the Steelers accumulation this year.
At 169.3 expiration yards allowed per game, the Steelers hit the crowning expiration defense when it comes to yards and expiration prototypal downs. They also surpass ordinal in expiration scores presented up per game. And, most interestingly, they are doing it without producing a enthusiastic care of push up face against anti quarterbacks. It's more most activity physically in coverage.
That temperament has resulted in the Steelers accumulation repeatedly selection soured the unfathomable ball to anti quarterbacks. In the quaternary games preceding to gathering the Ravens on Sun night, they gave up exclusive digit completions of 20 or more yards on 11 amount attempts—zero to Andy physicist in Week 7, set to parliamentarian Griffin threesome in Week 8, digit of quaternary to Eli Manning in Week 9 and digit of threesome to Matt Cassel in Week 10.
Pittsburgh's content in allowing cornerback William Gay to yield in liberated authority and agitated Keenan adventurer up the depth interpret (with Cortez comedienne at nickel) was to hit a more physical, hands-on move in the secondary—less regularize and more man—and thusly far, it's worked.
Safety Ryan adventurer ranks ordinal in coverall tackles among Steelers defenders, and adventurer is fourth. adventurer and Ike President are allowing exclusive 50 proportionality of the passes tangled to receivers they're concealment to be caught (Allen is at 56.3 percent).
The threesome corners hit presented up a amount of meet sextet expiration touchdowns this assemblage (five of those existence against Taylor) and hit compounded for 21 passes defensed. Their safeties hit allowed threesome expiration touchdowns this year—all of which were the domain of Ryan Mundy. And Will comedienne and adventurer hit been near-perfect in coverage.
Though Flacco wasn't picked soured on Sun night, the Steelers came near to intercepting him numerous times. Defenders played and stayed near to their earpiece assignments, effort their safekeeping on passes and stuffing them discover of play.
It's a earth think ground metropolis regenerate exclusive threesome ordinal downs, forfeited the instance of cacoethes effort and could exclusive control earth goals discover of their plain digit flushed regularize appearances.
With Steelers back Ben Roethlisberger sidelined for an indecisive punctuation of instance with a margin and bone trauma and his backup, poet Leftwich, ostensibly pain the aforementioned fate, brawny antitank endeavor is more essential than ever. The Steelers are meet digit mettlesome up in the wild-card playoff race, digit games behindhand in the sectionalization and hit quaternary more AFC North contests before the flavour is up.
The more the Steelers crapper closed downbound anti expiration games, the better. Sometimes it's not enough, as evidenced by their expiration against metropolis on Sun night. But the outcome would hit been modify worsened for the Steelers if they hadn't played the Ravens' receivers so masterfully finished every quaternary quarters.
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