“How good are the defenses that we’ve played so far?” Roethlisberger questioned. “They’ve been down some really good DBs. They’ve been thin in the secondary. What’s gonna happen when all of a sudden we play a team that’s got a really good secondary, a really good pass rush? They can double a guy, or maybe not double George [Pickens] and put a really good guy on [Calvin] Austin [III].
I just want to pump the brakes a little bit, just because we don’t know what we’re gonna get when we face a really good defense. But, they’re doing what they have to do right now, and that’s all that matters.”
Roethlisberger has a point in that the Jets and Giants were down defensive backs, but coming into those games, both of those defenses ranked as top ten passing defenses but struggled to stop the run.
The Steelers will run into teams that struggle mightily against the pass but can stuff the run, which will be another test for how the team can adapt to different matchups on their schedule.
