Wallace108
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 | | Subject: Steelers plan to rejuvenate passing game Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:20 pm | |
| By Alan Robinson
Mike Wallace doesn’t think they’re scared anymore.
The Steelers’ big-play wide receiver sensed hesitation in defensive backs last season, the worry that in a second or two he would accelerate into the direct path of a precisely thrown Ben Roethlisberger deep pass.
Not now. It’s not as if the long ball has vanished from the offense; Wallace caught an 82-yard touchdown pass only two weeks ago. But Roethlisberger is going downfield only once or twice a game — not the five or six times he did when Bruce Arians ran the offense.
Maybe that’s why Wallace sees cornerbacks creeping closer to the line of scrimmage, emboldened by the knowledge that the Steelers aren’t looking long.
Wallace believes it’s time to bring back the fear factor.
“Last year, we went deep so much that guys would back up all the time,” he said Thursday. “This year, we’ve been going (short) so much, guys I think are kind of forgetting who we are when it comes to deep balls. They’re forgetting we’re the best in the world. We need to remind them.”
This might be the week to go deep.
“There are definitely going to be opportunities — a lot of them,” receiver Antonio Brown said. “We’ve got to take advantage of them, capitalize on them.”
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| | Subject: Re: Steelers plan to rejuvenate passing game Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:13 am | |
| Come on man, you'd just drop it anyways. _________________  ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |
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| | Subject: Re: Steelers plan to rejuvenate passing game Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:29 am | |
| ^^What he said^^ _________________ F@(k Wallace.. Throw it to Miller
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| | Subject: Re: Steelers plan to rejuvenate passing game Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:41 am | |
| - Mach1 wrote:
- Come on man, you'd just drop it anyways.
That is the short passes we are talking deep balls he knows how to catch them.  _________________  | |
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| | Subject: Re: Steelers plan to rejuvenate passing game Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:45 am | |
| SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!! _________________  -"I stand corrected... But I absolutely and wholeheartedly fart in the general direction of almost every other thing you have posted to this point."- | |
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| | Subject: Re: Steelers plan to rejuvenate passing game Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:38 am | |
| Maybe it's not the fact that Ben will throw to Wallace, just that going deep a few more times a game will keep the CB's honest and make them play off and protect the long ball. Thus clearing out the underneath for Brown and Miller. _________________  60 MIN 53 MEN 1 NATION STEELERS NATION  I am the MAN that created the MYTH that started the LEGEND
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