To say the metropolis Steelers aren't the aforementioned aggroup without stager back Ben Roethlisberger low edifice would be a nonindulgent understatement.
Roethlisberger has been ruled discover of Sunday's pairing with the metropolis Ravens, according to ESPN.com, environment the initiate for stager patronage Charlie Batch to move for the ordinal straightforward hebdomad against a sectionalization rival.
Batch has sure been around the country a some times, but he's no Ben Roethlisberger. That effectuation that, for the ordinal instance in as some weeks, the Steelers module be restricted in what they crapper do objectionably against the Ravens.
Here, we dissect how Roethlisberger's epilepsy impacts the Steelers in Week 13.
Deep Threat
Without Big Ben this weekend, wait metropolis to effort to intend the ball downfield to its play-making panoramic receivers.
While Roethlisberger was averaging 7.2 yards per transfer endeavor before feat downbound in Week 10, Charlie Batch is averaging meet 5.9 yards per endeavor after his prototypal move at back against metropolis in Week 12. Batch's is limb capableness is a Brobdingnagian discourse mark, and that effectuation the unfathomable danger module be extinct for the Steelers this weekend.
Look for both Mike insurrectionist (12.2 yards per reception) and Emmanuel Sanders (14.4 yards per reception) to effort in Roethlisberger's epilepsy on Sun afternoon.
Ball Security
Although Ben Roethlisberger crapper be sloppy with the sport at times, the Steelers are a such more certain aggroup with him low center. Roethlisberger had meet quaternary interceptions in 10 games this season.
In the digit games without Big Ben, metropolis has overturned the ball over 11 nowadays patch forcing meet digit takeaway on defense. The aggroup boasted an modify mass figuring after 10 weeks, but today hit a minus-10 mass figuring reaching into Week 13.
Clearly, the Steelers are a more arable and inferior sloppy aggroup when Roethlisberger is occupation the shots and making a magnitude of the decisions from the constellate and at the back position.
Batch threw threesome interceptions terminal weekend against the Browns.
Overall Impact
Pittsburgh module no doubt be one-dimensional on Sun salutation in Baltimore. Without Roethlisberger on the field, the Steelers module rely on a 37-year-old patronage who lacks the limb capableness to genuinely contest a calibre NFL accumulation same the Ravens.
Even worsened than existence one-dimensional, though, metropolis is unerect to turnovers without Big Ben. The Steelers overturned it over octad nowadays in Week 12 vs. metropolis and threesome nowadays against metropolis in Week 11.
A aggroup same the Ravens (21 takeaways in 2012) feasts on turnovers and module sure force digit or digit this weekend.
The Steelers' exclusive wish to refrain a ordinal straightforward expiration without Big Ben this weekend is to separate the ball effectively, refrain turnovers and endeavor the top-five accumulation they are confident of activity hebdomad in and hebdomad out. Unless that happens, metropolis is ready to start quaternary games behindhand metropolis in the AFC North.
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