Making things somewhat easier for metropolis is the fact that Steelers play backwards Ben Roethlisberger module not be playing, having suffered a sternoclavicular (SC) render turn and bone perturbation in his team's Week 10 intend over the river City Chiefs. However, Roethlisberger isn't the exclusive Steelers contestant the Ravens requirement to vexation about—him existence soured the earth does not indorse a metropolis victory.
A intend boost secures Baltimore's advance in the AFC North and gives it whatever earnest capableness way into the digit teams' ordinal meeting, meet digit weeks later. Here's a mettlesome organisation for how the Ravens should move the Steelers this week.
Run Right
Passing hasn't worked every likewise substantially for Ravens backwards Joe Flacco when on the road, but luckily for him and for his team, they also hit digit of the league's prizewinning streaming backs in Ray Rice, and he'll be the key to a metropolis conclusion this Sun night.
The Steelers hit digit of the meliorate run-stopping defenses in the league, allowing an cipher of 94.6 streaming yards per game, senior them ordinal overall. However, they aren't colorfast to the skills of precocious streaming backs, as evidenced terminal weekday period against the river City Chiefs, when they gave up 100 streaming yards to Jamaal Charles.
Most interestingly, the eld of Charles' yards came when he was streaming to the correct lateral of his opprobrious distinction and into the mitt modify of the Steelers accumulation populated by backwards LaMarr Woodley and antitank modify Ziggy Hood.
With physicist and playwright kindred streaming backs in cost of explosiveness, Charles' success streaming finished the correct lateral of his distinction provides a enthusiastic plan for how the Ravens crapper separate substantially with playwright on Sunday.
It's not as though the Ravens requirement to desert the intent of expiration the ball entirely—of their 3.2 touchdowns per mettlesome they are presently averaging, 1.4 are via the pass—but they prototypal requirement to intend into scoring position. playwright crapper wage them more yardage on the agency than Flacco, mostly speaking—he's completing meet 53 proportionality of his passes in absent games this year—and intend them into scoring position, allowing either him, man backwards physiologist Pierce or Flacco's limb to consent touchdowns.
Though the Steelers advance the association in amount defense—that is, yards allowed—there are weaknesses the Ravens crapper verify plus of. They surpass 13th in contestant red-zone scoring attempts and are gift up a touchdown on 55.56 proportionality of those attempts, senior them 19th. At the aforementioned time, the Ravens are scoring touchdowns 65.52 proportionality of the instance they accomplish the flushed zone.
Preventing touchdowns is an Atlantic of imperfectness for Pittsburgh's defense—its capableness lies in not allowing some opportunities for opponents to intend to the flushed zone. But if the Ravens crapper intend time it and into scoring position, the ratio are in the souvenir that they'll reason touchdowns. playwright needs to be a earth factor of this effort; ultimate as that.
Stopping the Run
The large Atlantic of imperfectness for the Ravens accumulation this flavour has been fastening the run. Despite gift up a plain 72 streaming yards to the metropolis Raiders terminal week, its issues haven't been fixed. The Raiders hit digit of the poorest streaming offenses in the league, which gave the Ravens a taste of ready-made success before modify actually attractive the field. The Steelers are a farther more arduous test.
Stopping the separate is of modify greater grandness this week, with poet Leftwich low edifice instead of Ben Roethlisberger. The Ravens requirement Leftwich to intercommunicate and ready throwing—he hasn't started a mettlesome since 2009 and has an long conveying that makes it easier to both watch where he's feat with the ball and more undefendable to antitank pressure, digit weaknesses Baltimore's accumulation crapper ingest to its advantage. The inferior success the Steelers hit when streaming the ball, the more they'll hit to rely on Leftwich and modify the existence they module win.
In their terminal quaternary games, the Steelers hit place up 167, 140, 158 and 95 streaming yards, respectively, patch in the quaternary games preceding to the crush of the Raiders terminal week, the Ravens allowed 214, 227, 181 and 116 streaming yards. Allowing the Steelers backs to acquire yardage same that won't provide metropolis sufficiency of an possibleness to intend to Leftwich—Pittsburgh won't hit to rely on him.
Though the Raiders effort their possess separate mettlesome in the foot, the Ravens did attain adjustments to meliorate curb their backs, including rotating their linebackers (and agitated rookie backwards Courtney Upshaw to antitank face in destined situations). This fictive move needs to move into this Sun night's game—anything that crapper provide them a situational plus against the run, they requirement to do, whether it involves their formations or the organisation who is on the field.
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