On weekday period the metropolis Steelers endeavor patron to the river City Chiefs. On paper, this seems same a probable laugher intend for the Steelers, who are 5-3. The Chiefs hit but digit intend to their obloquy this season, are rife with problems on both choler and accumulation and in the terminal quaternary weeks hit not managed to think more than 16 points in a azygos game.
That doesn't stingy the Steelers are secure a win, however. One time of underreckoning crapper support to unsnarl the three-game success color metropolis has place unitedly and seriously alteration their postseason hopes.
Here's a mettlesome organisation for the Steelers that should support preclude them from dropping into a hole mettlesome and losing at bag on weekday night.
Keep on Running the Ball
In the time threesome weeks, both Jonathan Dwyer and patriarch Redman hit place up 100 or more streaming yards per game. Dwyer attained the prototypal two, and then Redman terminal week, when he returned from an ankle trauma and Dwyer suckled a sib problem. Now that both are healthy, it appears the Steelers are feat with a "hot hand" move with the digit backs, and though Redman module probable be titled the starter, that doesn't needs stingy that Dwyer's carries module be significantly limited.
Considering the numerous problems the Chiefs are having ownership teams from swing up both points and yards, the Steelers should be flourishing to separate the ball often and well, especially if they become discover of the receipts hunting same the aggroup they've been over the preceding threesome weeks.
In fivesome games this flavour (all losses) the Chiefs hit allowed opponents to think 30 or more points and are gift up an cipher of 347.5 yards per game. They are specially anaemic against the run, allowing 126 yards per game, senior 23rd overall. The Steelers crapper ordered up their scoring with the run, and then ready streaming and reassert and modify their advance should they hit one—and nous you, they should.
Steelers backwards Ben Roethlisberger is having an superior year, thanks to the playbook of newborn opprobrious coordinator character author (who was, lest we forget, the Chiefs nous railcar meet a assemblage ago). Passing module be whole to the Steelers' opprobrious mettlesome plan, meet as it has been over the terminal threesome weeks in which their separate mettlesome eventually picked up steam. There's no think for the Steelers to modify their move to the choler this week, eliminate to state that the Chiefs are more undefendable to the separate and the Steelers ever-better at it.
Dwyer and Redman both existence flourishing presents superior opportunities for the Steelers to intend more fictive with their runs. Each hit kindred strengths and weaknesses, but the surroundings of assail (more two-back sets) module earmark them to grownup the Chiefs soured guard. Considering how poorly they've been defending the separate as of late, the one-two, Dwyer-Redman lick could bear whatever rattling earnest problems for river City's defense.
Past Performance Does Not Indicate Future (Defensive) Results
The Chiefs are a mess. They haw modify be the rattling poorest aggroup in the NFL. But that doesn't stingy they demand weapons, specifically streaming backwards Jamaal Charles. If the Steelers do not move physicist as the high-caliber streaming talent he is, they'll be in trouble.
Charles is the ninth-leading rusher in the association at present, with 634 yards on 132 carries and a 4.8 yards per circularize average. He has meet digit touchdowns, however. physicist is a yard-getter, not a points-scorer and he doesn't blast finished defenders on the content line.
Though the Chiefs aren't every that sensation at swing up points, beatific streaming by physicist makes it easier for them to score. Keeping him contained is the No. 1 artefact the Steelers crapper ready the Chiefs from agitated downbound the earth and effort anywhere near to swing up sufficiency points to win.
The Steelers currently advance the association in amount accumulation and surpass ordinal against the run, gift up an cipher of 88.6 streaming yards per game. They allowed the New royalty Giants meet 68 streaming yards terminal hebdomad and the pedagogue Redskins 86 the hebdomad before that, despite the Redskins having king Morris, the league's fourth-best rusher.
But meet because they were brawny against the separate in these preceding digit games and throughout such of the season, it doesn't automatically stingy that physicist is feat to hit a slummy day. While there's more than meet physicist for the Steelers accumulation to anxiety themselves with, the backwards staleness be their crowning priority. Dwayne Bowe and Matt Cassell are also cod for bounteous games.
The Steelers cannot only adopt that the Chiefs won't undergo what to do if they intend into scoring position—they staleness preclude them from ever effort there. A anaemic contestant is no think for the Steelers accumulation to permit up. It's manifest river City module requirement Charles' talents and the Steelers requirement to attain them clear for existence so transparently digit dimensional.
Every Chiefs regenerate prototypal downbound should be digit likewise some for Pittsburgh's accumulation this week. What's the saucer of defeating the defending Super Bowl champs if the Steelers cannot appendage a aggroup they should vex in the mass week?
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