Steelers striving for pass-run balance on offense

[stillers4me]

Offensive coordinator Todd Haley talks incessantly about developing balance with the Steelers offense.

At times, the Ben Roethlisberger-led unit has come close to distributing the ball evenly between receivers and running backs and, more precisely, between Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell, who have accounted for 44.7 percent (2,313) of the Steelers' 5,167 total yards from scrimmage.

But there's a disparity between the number of runs and passes. The Steelers have 474 pass attempts and have rushed the ball 326 times.

And there has been little balance in distributing the ball to anyone other than Bell and Brown. Brown has caught 26 percent of Roethlisberger's completions, and Bell has nearly 75 percent of the team's 1,417 rushing yards...........


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[MrPgh]

How about just striving to win games instead of trying to make cranky old yinzers happy?

[salamander]

You need to play to your team's strength. Le'veon Bell is an awesome RB but I'd say our offense lives and dies on Ben's arm.