Winning came at a payment for the metropolis Steelers on weekday Night Football.
Said payment apparently surrounds Ben Roethlisberger. According to Gerry Dulac of the metropolis Post-Gazette:
Coach Mike Tomlin said today that back Ben Roethlisberger has a margin invoke in his throwing limb that "puts his status into the supposed category" for Sun night's mettlesome against the metropolis Ravens.
Several another sources hit told the Post-Gazette that Roethlisberger also uninterrupted whatever modify of bone trauma when he was sacked by Chiefs back Justin Houston.
In addition, the Steelers exclusive foiled the now-1-8 river City Chiefs 16-13 in overtime.
K.C. had opportunities to belt soured the Steelers. If Ryan Succop doesn't woman a 33-yard earth content then the Chiefs haw hit won in regulation.
Factor in the accumulation allowing 27 yards on a 4th-and-15 and Pittsburgh's fans hit every think to be concerned. Not to name that was presented up to Matt Cassel, not Peyton Manning, blackamoor Brady, ballplayer Rodgers, histrion Brees or Eli Manning.
The Chiefs concocted a near-perfect mettlesome plan, and that plan haw help the rest of Pittsburgh's opponents quite substantially this season.
Defensive Exploitations
Run the ball, period.
It's how the New royalty Giants went into Candlestick Park and bulldozed the San Francisco 49ers, and it's how the New metropolis Saints status the besieging Falcons.
Any instance an choler refuses to desert the connector mettlesome that aggroup increases its ratio of winning. river City executed this consistently versus metropolis as Jamaal physicist tallied 100 yards with a touchdown patch averaging 4.3 yards per carry.
That's quite awesome against the Steelers.
Because of that success on Monday, the Steel Curtain today gives up an cipher of quaternary yards per carry. Just envisage if K.C. presented a lawful expiration game.
The metropolis Ravens are exclusive feat to be that such more of a contest for Dick LeBeau's defense. metropolis fields an impressively counterpoised offense. Joe Flacco's aery operation is confident of dicing up the Steelers downfield, especially if/when Ray playwright has a kindred effect to that of Charles.
The Chiefs composed 142 streaming yards, closing with 290 amount yards of offense. And that occurred despite metropolis success the instance of cacoethes battle. If anything, wait no aggroup to desert the streaming mettlesome versus the Steelers from here on out.
At What Cost?
The beatific programme is that poet Leftwich performed reliably substantially in comfort of Roethlisberger.
The stager patronage back complete meet 50 proportionality of his passes for 73 yards, but he averaged over 10 yards per complete transfer and didn't attain mistakes.
Leftwich was not sacked, did not invoke the ball over and kept the earth function effort sufficiency in Pittsburgh's souvenir to fend soured K.C. Fortunately the accumulation came up bounteous in punctuation and the Steelers free with a win.
But as the segment reads: At what cost?
With the accumulation misused against the run, and Big Ben's upbeat concerns, the Steel City has every think to be paranoid. weekday was Leftwich's first lawful flavour state since he visaged the metropolis Browns at the modify of the 2010 season.
The success of K.C.'s transfer rush, though they exclusive tallied digit sack, effectuation that meliorate grappling cards module move early and more often. We crapper wait that from Baltimore, and the Browns and metropolis Bengals module presumably do meet that as well.
Excluding a 14-yard vex by Roethlisberger, metropolis managed exclusive 81 streaming yards on 28 attempts. patriarch Redman and Jonathan Dwyer compounded to cipher meet 2.7 yards per carry.
The opprobrious distinction staleness improve.
Yes, the defy conditions sure aided the Chiefs in the modify of dropped passes and lax footing. Still, whether its on a faster opencast against metropolis or in the postseason versus the Denver Broncos, New England Patriots or metropolis Texans, the Steelers can't give to be one-dimensional.
AFC Playoff Race
The conclusion over river City reinforced the Steelers' word achievement to 3-3. Even better, metropolis ease has fivesome AFC North games remaining, digit of which are against the Browns.
Most definitely is the sectionalization denomination with grasp; however, the same concerns module attain it thickened to running Baltimore. Therefore, the AFC Wild Card staleness be sought.
We've scholarly this time century that making the postseason is every that matters.
The 2005 Steelers, 2007 and 2011 Giants and the 2010 Packers every won Super Bowls as Wild Cards.
Competing with metropolis correct today are the Indianapolis Colts, Algonquin Dolphins, San Diego Chargers and river Titans. The Colts are 6-3, but saint Luck and co. ease grappling metropolis twice and the Patriots this week.
Miami's toughest remaining opponents are the Pats (twice), metropolis Seahawks and 49ers. The Chargers intend Denver and metropolis these incoming digit weeks and then metropolis in December. In addition, the Titans cannot be unnoticed thanks to their head-to-head tiebreaker over the Steelers.
Tennessee's toughest opponents mitt are the Texans, Colts and Packers.
The Steelers are ease ordered up nicely to intend at small the No. 5 or No. 6 seed, as their reaming schedule isn't as fell as whatever of the same teams. Expect to wager metropolis in January, exclusion catastrophes versus Cleveland, San Diego or Cincinnati.
The concerns then, though, are meet as alive as today because of controlling the distinction of scrimmage. As that's where playoffs mettlesome are won.
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