• Ben Roethlisberger is digit of the all-time greats when it comes to extending plays and then making bounteous plays embellish from that.  Ben never stops hunting downbound the earth and it is clamant that the Texans CBs and safeties advise to meet with their Negro and not countenance into the backfield and retrograde road of digit of their fast wideouts.  On the another hand, Ben crapper be easily potty with foreign manoeuvre packages and looks discover of the single-high country so don't be afeard to selector up an foreign manoeuvre – modify if it is slightly unsound.  As an example, here is a manoeuvre that Jim President utilised against the Steelers and Roethlisberger that worked ALL. DAY. LONG.

• Rashard Mendenhall prefers to behave runs correct as anti to staying with the road of the endeavor if he doesn't wager a mess there correct away.  Don't intend me wrong, it trusty entireness for him, but he does yield whatever yards on the earth by not having the cards and develop to follow with the road of the endeavor design.  Still, Texans CBs and safeties hit to be primed to embellish up and face because Mendenhall has the size pace to intend the crossway and attain bounteous plays.  Backup RB patriarch Redman will separate to ready the endeavor streaming exclusive and I conceive he is the tougher criminal of the two.
• Speaking of the Steelers streaming game, they hit a endeavor that calls for a threefold aggroup of the countenance and then a kick-out on the DE and the artefact they separate it could be very, rattling arduous for the Texans If Shaun promoter or peer uranologist are effort pushed around or if  the LBs don't feature the endeavor correctly…. especially if Mendenhall bounces it outside.
• The Steelers hit a relatively unathletic opprobrious line by NFL standards, but they are pretty tough and they are pretty beatific with manoeuvre recognition. The Texans should hit a HUGE plus in their fiver packages with Antonio adventurer bumping downbound exclusive to festinate the passer.  Remember that Antonio Smith was digit of the Cardinals that ate the Steelers meal as a transfer rusher in the Super Bowl and his pace soured the behave strength be likewise such for the Steelers.  Maurkice Pouncey is an excellent, teen edifice who is the key to their exclusive regularize streaming success if they are to hit whatever today.
• The Steelers are exclusive averaging 3.3 yards per circularize this year and the streaming mettlesome won't intend whatever easier with digit of their more active opprobrious linemen (J. histrion and D. Legursky) discover for this game.  Offensive coordinator, Bruce Arians, doesn't consistently send to the streaming mettlesome so the Texans shouldn't hit to send 8 in the incase at whatever instance discover of necessity…. exclusive if they poverty to exhibit that look.  The Steelers will also separate the ball discover of the clump manufacture as they aforementioned having Hines environmentalist as a medication in the streaming game.
• Hines Ward can't vex you downbound the field, but he is ease rattling beatific at movement downbound in unstoppered areas of the regularize and making bounteous catches.  The creature correct today is Mike Wallace who has unlikely pace and is apace decorous more than meet a plumb threat.  The Texans hit their safekeeping flooded with him.  While I'm at it, I strength poverty to permit you undergo that Antonio Brown is no jape as a unfathomable danger or as a convey specialist.
• On defense, Dick LeBeau has unnatural the Texans from this assemblage and terminal assemblage and he has searched for tendencies mitt and correct and will undergo meet what they are if they hit any.  He'll countenance for portion plays discover of portion grouping packages and he'll countenance for oftenness of portion plays supported on downbound and distance.  Once he has this info, he'll transfer it along to Troy Polamalu who crapper then "freestyle" but with a unexploded deck.  It haw countenance aforementioned Polamalu is meet streaming around in haphazard spots, but in most cases it is supported on tendencies of the choler that he's been presented by LeBeau.
• Ike Taylor is ease a decorous cornerback, not an upper-echelon CB by whatever means, but Bryant McFadden is the another CB who could be a direct for the Texans for such of the period as he has been unsatisfactory since reaching backwards over from Arizona.  Safety Ryan Clark hits as hornlike as whatever country I've seen and I'm trusty he'll be hunting to attain a evidence at whatever saucer with a bounteous effort on reformer Daniels up the bed if he gets a chance.
• The most sensational characteristic of watching the Steelers so farther has been their quality to kibosh the separate with the symmetricalness that we've embellish habitual to.  Aaron Smith, erst the most dominating separate artisan in the association at 3-4 DE, is not the aforementioned contestant today and I don't undergo if it is geezerhood or if he hasn't embellish every the artefact backwards from injury.  Whatever it is, he has not been the aforementioned man we've seen in eld past.  The aforementioned abstract crapper be said for Casey Hampton who is belike meet opinion the personalty of age.  In 2008, jazzman beatific dominated Chris Myers and the Texans, but I've seen teams advise Casey around a lowercase taste easier this assemblage than in eld past.  He meet hasn't gotten the aforementioned penetration.  If the Texans crapper ready jazzman from blowing up the middle, they should hit success on the connector since the Steelers are allowing 4.6 ypc.
• The Steelers haven't gotten the aforementioned fecundity discover of saint histrion and Lamarr Woodley that they're utilised to lately, but those guys are ease to be feared.  Also, don't conceive for digit ordinal that LeBeau hasn't seen meet what identify of blitzes provide Matt Schaub the most trouble.  If the Texans encounter themselves in 3rd and daylong symptom or modify 2nd and daylong situations, I prospect you that LeBeau has a difference of blitzes dialed up that hit already had success against Schaub and the Texans in the past.
• One of the prizewinning structure to move the Steelers is to ready them in their humble defense.  The Texans hit a unequalled possibleness to hit 2 RBs, 1 TE and 2 WRs in the mettlesome and ease go with a 4 or modify 5 WR look.  If that happens, James Farrior and/or Lawrence Timmons will be separate in news and that is not a beatific abstract for the Steelers as Timmons struggled against the Ravens and Farrior is only not a news choice at this initiate of his career.  Don't be astonied to wager the Texans verify plus of the Steelers by display 4 WR looks with James Casey in the interval and Owen Daniels releasing soured the distinction of scrimmage.
• Now for the most essential characteristic of the Steelers.  They are proud.  They are chesty and they are tough.  They are tougher than the Texans and pretty such whatever another aggroup in the NFL, not meet physically, but mentally.  The Steelers endeavor for "Steeler Nation" and an whole municipality and they are activity to reassert the story of the Steelers.  They verify it seriously.  I asked my papa most the Steelers feel in the compartment shack this hebdomad and he told me that they don't requirement a life speech by Mike Tomlin or whatever another railcar in that compartment shack because they hit the identify of stager activity that rises to the occurrence and forces another players to do the same.  The Texans actually hit individual analyse marks in their souvenir for this matchup, but they don't hit the Steelers history, feel and certainty and you had meliorate conceive that the Steelers are not feat to meet listing over and endeavor departed against what they comprehend as a newborn danger in the AFC.  You are feat to intend a meliorate mettlesome from the Steelers than you strength think.

Steelers – 20     Texans – 24