{"id":137806,"date":"2020-12-20T06:23:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T03:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/steelers-insane-schedule-makes-their-slump-overblown\/"},"modified":"2020-12-20T06:23:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T03:23:41","slug":"steelers-insane-schedule-makes-their-slump-overblown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/steelers-insane-schedule-makes-their-slump-overblown\/","title":{"rendered":"#Steelers\u2019 insane schedule makes their slump overblown"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Steelers\u2019 insane schedule makes their slump overblown<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s not be in such a hurry to bury the Steelers.<\/p>\n

Sure, they\u2019ve lost two consecutive game<\/a>s after the 11-0 start. And sure, they look like they\u2019ve lost their mojo in the process.<\/p>\n

But the Steelers are still 11-2 (only one team in the league, the Chiefs, has a better record), and they have a chance to earn the No. 1-overall seed in the AFC.<\/p>\n

In response to the doom and gloom from the outside world about the Pittsburgh slide, Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger borrowed a page from the motivational handbook of Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who famously told Green Bay fans to \u201crelax\u2019\u2019 in 2014 with the team struggling (Green Bay got to the NFC title game later that year).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe season is not over,\u2019\u2019 Roethlisberger said this week. \u201cI want everyone out there to just take a deep breath. I know it\u2019s kind of crazy right now. Take a deep breath. We got time.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

There are, indeed, some legitimate reasons for the Steelers\u2019 recent slide. It\u2019s difficult to imagine that their disjointed, compacted schedule, because of COVID-19 complications and through no fault of their own, has not slowed their train.<\/p>\n

Go back to Week 4, when their game against Tennessee was postponed because of the Titans\u2019 COVID-19 outbreak. That forced the Steelers to take their bye week a month earlier than originally scheduled. Later, with the Ravens\u2019 COVID-19 outbreak moving their game against the Steelers three times, Pittsburgh was forced to play three games in 12 days in December.<\/p>\n

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This prompted former Steelers nose tackle Chris Hoke on 93.7 The Fan radio in Pittsburgh this week to say they have looked like \u201ca tired team\u201d of late.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou watch the tape \u2014 everybody seemed to me like they were a step behind,\u2019\u2019 Hoke said.<\/p>\n

Perhaps this is why the Steelers\u2019 offense has produced just five touchdowns and failed to score more than 19 points in the past three games after being the only team in the league to score at least 26 points in every game before that.<\/p>\n

The Steelers\u2019 offense has a chance to get fat again on Monday night when they play at 2-10-1 Cincinnati. Their last big offensive outburst came in the first meeting against Cincinnati on Nov. 15 in Pittsburgh, when Roethlisberger passed for 333 yards and four TDs.<\/p>\n

Randy Fichtner, the Steelers\u2019 offensive coordinator, told reporters that he finally has been able to return to a more normal practice routine for the first time in weeks after it was disrupted the compressed schedule. He said he hopes that helps bring back his team\u2019s signature physicality, which has been missing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we are being as physical as we should be and need to be all the time,\u201d Roethlisberger said. \u201cIt\u2019s something we always took pride in, the Pittsburgh Steelers being physical.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

A big part of being physical is running the ball, and the Steelers have been abysmal in that area of late \u2014 averaging just 45.6 yards rushing per game and 2.6 yards per carry in six of the past seven games.<\/p>\n

Roethlisberger emphasized that this team already has earned a playoff berth, so the stress of chasing that has long been alleviated.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in the postseason,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cIf we\u2019re starting the postseason tomorrow, maybe there\u2019d be a little more panic on our part, like we\u2019ve got to get it figured out right now. We need to get it figured out now, but the good thing is we know we\u2019ve got games after these next three.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have three weeks now to get it going, turn it around, to give ourselves the best chance of achieving our ultimate goal, which is winning the Super Bowl.\u2019\u2019\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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