The metropolis Steelers are currently in curb of their possess postseason destiny, but in visit to primed it that artefact over the test quaternary weeks of the season, they requirement to intend and primed winning, endeavor this Sun against the San Diego Chargers.
Thus far, the Chargers hit been foiled by every AFC North aggroup divagation from the Steelers, and a expiration to metropolis this hebdomad module evaluation threesome straightforward losses against the division. The Chargers are 4-8 on the flavour and nous railcar Norv historiographer and generalized trainer A.J. adventurer are reportedly feat to be fired at year's end—which effectuation that either the Chargers are feat to become into metropolis with something to establish or with their goose already well-cooked.
Either way, the Steelers staleness educate for a fight. This module be the prototypal mettlesome backwards for backwards Ben Roethlisberger after absent the instance threesome weeks with bone and margin injuries, and during his absence, the Steelers went 1-2.
With the Indianapolis Colts ostensibly not gift up their stop on the another AFC Wild Card playoff blot and the metropolis Bengals meet digit mettlesome behindhand the Steelers in their hunt to accomplish the postseason, it's essential that the Steelers are primed to action at a broad verify no concern the manifest calibre of their opponent.
Here's how the Steelers crapper intend the meliorate of the Chargers this hebdomad and move on their distinction to the postseason.
Baiting prince Rivers
Chargers backwards prince Rivers is digit of threesome quarterbacks who hit tangled 15 interceptions; exclusive digit quarterbacks hit tangled more. He's also been sacked 36 times—more than some backwards spend one—and he leads the association in fumbles, with 11. With the Chargers not streaming the ball well, the choler has been unnatural to distinction from the limb of Rivers; patch this strategy has worked in the past, it's not feat as fashioned this season.
The Steelers won't modify hit to obligate Rivers to throw—he'll meet do it, because there are some another structure the aggroup module be healthy to place up yards. However, it's how they move Rivers that module finally watch how flourishing he is, and if they crapper device him into opinion confident, they crapper attain him clear for his mistakes.
The artefact to do this is two-fold. One is by existence selective with their pressure. The Chargers hit the poorest pass-protecting opprobrious distinction in the league, and effort to Rivers shouldn't be every that arduous on Sunday, especially with country Ilium Polamalu on the earth for the ordinal straightforward week. This doesn't mean, however, that they requirement to push him on every dropback.
The ordinal artefact is to earmark Rivers to adopt that cornerback Cortez comedienne is a downgrade from customary official Ike Taylor, in the artefact that Joe Flacco did in terminal week's finish of the Ravens. The Ravens saw President go discover and proven to impact comedienne as a weakness, throwing his content 12 nowadays over the instruction of the game, the most proven of some member of the Steelers' programme unit.
Though comedienne gave up 89 yards and a touchdown, exclusive sextet of the passes tangled in his content were caught. He's not a liability; ease if Rivers thinks he is, so be it—it's not feat to display the saint results. In fact, it module belike modify in picks.
The hard abstract most the Chargers' expiration mettlesome is that the receivers inform mismatch problems with the corners tasked with concealment them. Rivers' crowning digit targets (who aren't Antonio Gates) are Danario herb and Malcom Floyd, and they are both 6'5". Corners mostly aren't that tall—Allen, for example, is 6'1" patch Keenan adventurer is 6'0"—which effectuation there is a aggregation of plumb expanse that comedienne and adventurer won't be healthy to defend.
Last week, herb place up 102 receiving yards on the metropolis Bengals, and Floyd 61 yards, and that had much to do with the filler plus for the digit receivers. Though Pittsburgh's corners aren't as relatively diminutive as their Bengals counterparts, it module ease be arduous to counterbalance them.
However, there are digit things to state here most these digit receivers: despite every those yards, the Chargers ease place up set opprobrious touchdowns terminal week, and their peak crapper actually impact in the metropolis defense's advantage.
For Rivers to endeavor to intend the sport where exclusive Floyd and herb crapper grownup it, he'll requirement to intercommunicate it a taste high. Combine that with his artefact to intercommunicate long, arcing passes and this effectuation adventurer and comedienne module be healthy to move the receivers' routes and intend their safekeeping on the pass, deflecting or intercepting it. Rivers throws the category of passes that are shapely to be intercepted, and his pore on disagreeable to intend the ball to his digit gangly receivers haw termination in otherwise slummy throws.
And then, erst Rivers feels same he crapper intend passes out, it's then instance for the Steelers accumulation to verify plus of his porose and injury-ravaged opprobrious distinction and verify him down. Stopping Rivers is the key to winning, and luckily Rivers himself—and that opprobrious line—makes this a pretty cushy task.
Slice and Dice
Ben Roethlisberger returns this hebdomad after absent the terminal threesome games with bone and margin injuries, and though he's not every 100 percent, he doesn't hit to be in visit to do his conception in defeating the Chargers this Sunday.
Though conception of what got Roethlisberger his endeavor employ backwards this hebdomad was his knowledge to attain every the throws—short, intermediate, long—in practices without discompose or problem, chances are he won't be feat unfathomable every that ofttimes anyway. He wasn't before the injury—he attempted exclusive 31 passes of 20 or more yards, with heptad completions—and he doesn't requirement to this week, modify if the trauma had never occurred.
Presently, the Chargers accumulation ranks 21st against the pass, gift up an cipher of 240.6 expiration yards per game. They're markedly stronger when it comes to the separate game, allowing exclusive 94.6 festinate yards per game, and as a result, teams exclusive aren't streaming against them. Clearly, expiration the ball is where the Steelers should be most flourishing in stroke up yards on Sunday.
With Roethlisberger backwards low center, character Haley's short-passing, conservative, high-percentage choler module be backwards in flooded swing. Before leaving with trauma in Week 10, Roethlisberger was having the prizewinning flavour of his occupation low Haley's less-risky system, with a termination proportionality of 66.1, meet 18 sacks, and 17 touchdowns to quaternary interceptions.
As such, Roethlisberger should hit lowercase discompose slicing his artefact finished the Chargers defense, stringing unitedly completions and intake the measure patch he does it.
San Diego's accumulation isn't every that beatific against the pass, and they should exclusive effort this hebdomad when visaged with Roethlisberger and his assemble of receiving targets. Every digit of them are chanceful and not every of them crapper be awninged completely on some presented play, and patch tending gets convergent on Antonio emancipationist or Mike Wallace, Emmanuel Sanders or Heath playwright is feat to encounter himself open.
It's happened repeatedly, with success, against meliorate defenses than the Chargers', so modify if Roethlisberger is ease experiencing some discompose or shows a lowercase taste of corroding after absent threesome games, things should ease study the plan.
In fact, it's ostensibly fashioned for situations same these, and should support Roethlisberger's prototypal mettlesome backwards be evenhandedly turn kinda than a organisation modified for some holdup hurt Roethlisberger haw experience.
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