Originally Posted by
SteelerNation1
Originally Posted by
"Mr Smartmonies":3ood25ou
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2004
1st down #11
2nd down #11
3rd down #2
Red Zone #12
MSM,
Our running game was SO dominant in 04, I have a hard time believing we only "ranked" 11th on 1st and 2nd down. Can you explain where you got these stats.[/quote:3ood25ou]
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Our Run game was dominant to a point. But a lot of the rushing was yards racked up in the 2nd half after the pass got us a lead (Pass Ranking #5 on 1st down in 2004 within these stats) Here is more information regarding 2004.
Week 4 Oct 3 W 28-17 vs Cincinnati Bengals//pitt had lead at half
Week 5 Oct 10 W 34-23 vs Cleveland Browns// pitt lead at half 27 1st half pts!
Week 6 Oct 17 W 24-20 at Dallas Cowboys // roethlisberger goes 21 for 25 against Parcells
Week 7 Bye Week
Week 8 Oct 31 W 34-20 vs New England Patriots //Pitt had 24-10 lead at half, 17 1st half off pts
Week 9 Nov 7 W 27-3 vs Philadelphia Eagles //pitt lead at half 21 1st half pts!
Week 10 Nov 14 W 24-10 at Cleveland Browns // pitt lead 14-3 at half
Week 11 Nov 21 W 19-14 at Cincinnati Bengals // one of few game , they had no lead at half
Week 12 Nov 28 W 16-7 vs Washington Redskins // pitt leads 10-0 at half
Week 13 Dec 5 W 17-16 at Jacksonville Jaguars //pitt leads at half- game winning drive by roeth
Week 14 Dec 12 W 17-6 vs New York Jets // pitt small lead at half
Week 15 Dec 18 W 33-30 at New York Giants //pitt lead at half 20 1st half points!
Week 16 Dec 26 W 20-7 vs Baltimore Ravens //pitt lead at half
2004 bettis
rushing yards by QTR
1st 165
2nd 233
3rd 217
4th 326 Illustrates that the rushing yards were racked up after Ben Got them the lead.
2005 Parker
1st QTR 226
2nd QTR 236
3rd QTR 491 once again the rushing yards were racked up in 2nd half
2004 Roethlisberger passer rating by QTr and amount of attempts
1st QTR 104% 76 pass attempts
2nd qtr 97% 91 pass attempts
3rd QTR 71% 63 pass attempts
4th QTR 118% 65 pass attempts
As you can see above, this ultra efficiecy in the 1st half enable the steelers to be
able to take leads in the 1sthalf and then run the ball in the 2nd half. You can even
see the drop in pass attempts from the first half to the 2nd half.
Why didn't this work the year before with Maddox? well as you can se below, Maddox was
unable to duplicate the ultra efficiency of Roethlisberger in the 1st QTR. Therefore Madox had to throw the ball more to make up for the incompletions. He also had to throw the bal more because roethlisberger nearly doubled up his yards per attempt avg over maddox avg in the 1st QTr. The difference between 6.5 yPa and 11.3 is an incredible difference.
2003 maddox
1st Qtr passer rating = 77
completion percentage = 56%
yards per attempt = 6.5
2004 roethlisberger
1st QTR passer rating = 104%
completion percentage = 67%
Yards per attempt = 11.3
2004 steelers passed early and did it so efficently that they rarely had to pass in the
2nd half. That's why they went 15-1. no other team could take a rookie QB and run the
ball as much as Pittsburgh did, cause their has never been a rookie QB average 8.9 yards
per attempt which is completely off the charts.
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