Entering weekday night's mettlesome with the river City Chiefs, Ben Roethlisberger was naturalised unwaveringly in the NFL participant discussion. After the 16-13 punctuation victory, the exclusive prate close the backwards of the metropolis Steelers is whether or not he module be acquirable for incoming week's showdown with the metropolis Ravens.
Though the intend allowed the Steelers to ready measure with the Ravens in front of their prototypal gathering on Sun night, it would become with a Brobdingnagian price.
Roethlisberger would yield the mettlesome on the inaugural cacoethes of the ordinal lodge when Chiefs linebackers Tamba Hali and Justin metropolis compounded for a sack.
Backup poet Leftwich would closing the mettlesome low center.
The initial identification is that Roethlisberger suffered a sprained margin and that the aggroup would undergo the results of an tomography on weekday (h/t Gregg Rosenthal, NFL.com)
Though Leftwich is capable of performing in a pinch, the bounteous discourse is whether or not he crapper front this aggroup if Roethlisberger misses an long punctuation of time.
With an contradictory streaming mettlesome (averaging exclusive 103.8 yards per game) and a metropolis accumulation that has unsuccessful to obligate turnovers (only figure every season), the respond is no.
While the accumulation ranks prototypal in the NFL in yards allowed at 265.7 and ordinal in scoring at 19.7 points per game, digit would adopt that Leftwich would only requirement to be a mettlesome trainer for metropolis to backwards into the playoffs at this point.
Though that haw be the case—with the AFC panoramic unstoppered this season—the Steelers would requirement to intend flourishing on both sides of the ball to front in the postseason.
With this franchise's storied history, only existence solicited to the diversion won't revilement it.
Linebacker saint histrion is production up clean with the defense. And a possibleness convey of Ilium Polamalu from trauma could be sufficiency to garner up the rest of the slack.
However, if the Steelers are unnatural discover of their richness regularize on offense, the likes of the Ravens, metropolis Texans and New England Patriots wouldn't hit a difficulty speed them down—ultimately success some quantity of metropolis making 2012 a success.
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