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Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn
On the flip side, the Steelers are 2-0 with out Big Ben. Now that is a surprise to me, like others mentioned they beat two pretty good football teams to boot. This is also a team that faired poorly against the crappy Kansas City Chiefs last year. In fact the Chiefs actually beat them.
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What really killed Pittsburgh last year was a stretch in the middle weeks where they went from being a 6-2 team to a team that lost to KC, Oakland, Houston, Cincinatti at home and a tough road game in Baltimore. They were 7-7 and pretty much out of the playoffs when that finished up. They had a 5 or 6 week stretch where they allowed either a Special teams return, or defensive return TD against. In that loss to KC, they allowed one of each, and it was killing them, since they weren't getting any themselves.
I'm not that surprised that they're 2-0, they have Polamalu back and he makes a huge difference for their pass defence. Without him teams could attack them through the air as they couldn't force turnovers. He's as important to that defence as Ray Lewis is to the Ravens.
They're back now playing tough defence and grinding out what they can on offence. If Roethlisberger gets back playing like he did last year they're proably as good as anyone in the AFC.