3 things we learned from Steelers win against the Colts

The Steelers offense is more efficient when going ‘up-tempo’

It goes without saying that if you didn’t watch the game, didn’t know the final score, and just looked at the box score of the game and noticed that the Steelers offense managed to gain a paltry 20 yards on the ground, you would have assumed we lost the game; however, Ben Roethlisberger, our future Hall of Fame QB, had other plans.

According to ESPN.com, notwithstanding the aforementioned abysmal 20 net yards rushing, ‘Big Ben’ ended his day with 333 net yards passing on 49 pass attempts, 3 TD passes, and, more importantly, zero INTs.  Good things tend to happen when we don’t turn the ball over, not to state the obvious.

What has become blatantly obvious to me is the fact that when the Steelers offense goes ‘up-tempo’, we just seem to be able to move the ball more effectively than when we deploy a traditional pace, e.g. ‘huddling up’.  Obviously, we can’t go ‘no-huddle’ on every play, but you can’t deny the fact that we are able to move the ball when we do go ‘no-huddle’.

You also can’t deny the fact that the run game is essentially non-existent right now and has been for some time.  Look, I personally don’t care how we win games; I only care that we win games. With that said, if we want to still be playing in February, the Steelers absolutely must find balance on offense and that starts with finding our lost running game.

Let’s take a look at the second thing we learned.