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12-15-2010, 05:43 AM
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Peter Diana/Post-Gazette
Steelers quarterbacks, including Ben Roethlisberger, have been sacked 35 times this season.
Mike Tomlin answered plenty of questions Tuesday about the shortcomings of the Steelers' offense, which has produced precisely one touchdown in the past 11 quarters, and that thanks mostly to safety Troy Polamalu.
The coach fielded questions about problems in the "red zone," about "17 holding penalties" in the past four games, about Ben Roethlisberger "getting hit" with little response from the refs or the league and about the quarterback's "injuries."
Tomlin offered little in the way of reasons or solutions, but there seems to be an answer so obvious it played the role of the elephant in the press room: The Steelers' offensive line is not very good.
That's not only the opinion of many but now a statistical "fact" from a formula devised by the mathematicians at STATS, one of the top statistical services covering sports and one used widely by the television networks covering the NFL.
The new stat, conveniently, was announced on Tuesday as the "New York Life Protection Index" with its first weekly ranking. The offensive line of Indianapolis ranks first with a rating of 90.6. The Steelers' line ranks 29th with a rating of 44.9....................
Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10349/1110767-66.stm
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/201012/20101215steelers_160.jpg
Peter Diana/Post-Gazette
Steelers quarterbacks, including Ben Roethlisberger, have been sacked 35 times this season.
Mike Tomlin answered plenty of questions Tuesday about the shortcomings of the Steelers' offense, which has produced precisely one touchdown in the past 11 quarters, and that thanks mostly to safety Troy Polamalu.
The coach fielded questions about problems in the "red zone," about "17 holding penalties" in the past four games, about Ben Roethlisberger "getting hit" with little response from the refs or the league and about the quarterback's "injuries."
Tomlin offered little in the way of reasons or solutions, but there seems to be an answer so obvious it played the role of the elephant in the press room: The Steelers' offensive line is not very good.
That's not only the opinion of many but now a statistical "fact" from a formula devised by the mathematicians at STATS, one of the top statistical services covering sports and one used widely by the television networks covering the NFL.
The new stat, conveniently, was announced on Tuesday as the "New York Life Protection Index" with its first weekly ranking. The offensive line of Indianapolis ranks first with a rating of 90.6. The Steelers' line ranks 29th with a rating of 44.9....................
Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10349/1110767-66.stm