With the breaking news that Big Ben Roethlisberger is sitting out for Sunday Night’s game against the Ravens, this turns a must-win game into a better-win game.
There will be no excuse for the Baltimore Ravens not to come out on top in this game with the Steelers’ third string quarterback, Dennis Dixon starting for them.
Dennis Dixon gets his first career regular season start, too bad for him it's against the Ravens
This kid from Oregon is in his 2nd year and has had one career pass in the NFL.
Our defense needs to keep the pressure on him, don’t play all this prevent shit like we always do and let him gain his confidence.
Pressure, pressure, pressure, that is the key to winning this game and we need to do it early.
Also, I think that we need to let Flacco get comfortable in the pocket early. Lately, we’ve been opening the game up by running the ball, notoriously, but I really think that Flacco has lost some confidence. And I think we need to come out throwing the ball and gain momentum early and score quick.
Maybe even throw a bomb to Mason first play of the game because Polamalu is out and the Steelers’ secondary has been shaky ever since.
Bottom line is that if we score early, we can try to take the running game away from the Steelers and force the kid to beat us. Not that Mendenhall will probably do anything against Ray and our run D, but we don’t want to even give him the opportunity to do so.
