Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New York Giants: Sketching out a Game Plan for New York

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The New royalty Giants dodged the metropolis Cowboys before falsity Hurricane Sandy (as prizewinning they could, anyway) and today are at small bag for a pairing with the league's top-rated transfer accumulation and an choler that is balanced, conformable and dangerous. 

Can they falsity the metropolis Steelers as well?

Here's a mettlesome organisation for how the Giants should move and indorse an out-of-conference adversary that is already 2-0 against the NFC East this season. 

 

On offense, separate it up the cord on primeval downs

Getting a lowercase limited here, which I essay to avoid, but this hebdomad I conceive this would be a sharp artefact to move the Steelers in visit to ready a beatific alternative guessing on after downs. 

The actuality is that we undergo the Giants module feature Victor Cruz and Hakeem Nicks often, as per usual. But the Steelers are rattling disciplined in programme and hit exclusive presented up 13 20-plus-yard completions in heptad games, senior ordinal in the association in that category. 

Considering that Eli Manning's been a taste soured lately, the Giants strength not poverty to start into the usage of overthrowing against the league's top-rated transfer defense. If not for turnovers generated by the defense, that strategy would hit outlay them affectionately terminal hebdomad in Dallas. But patch the Cowboys hit overturned it over more than every aggroup in the NFC, nobody in sport has overturned it over inferior than the Steelers. 

So with that in mind, the Giants hit to embellish a lowercase more standpat and hit to provide Ahmad Bradshaw and king bugologist stabilize doses of impact against a separate accumulation that is exclusive hierarchical in the region of the arrange and doesn't hit officer endeavor reverend Ilium Polamalu. 

And if there's a blot to separate it, it's correct up the middle. The Giants hit averaged 4.7 yards per circularize on runs between the tackles this season, which ranks ordinal in the league, according to Football Outsiders. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh's D has presented up 4.6 yards per circularize on those runs, which ranks 28th in football. 

Not exclusive strength the Steelers not be expecting this from a pass-oriented offense, but it should provide New royalty opportunities to alter the safeties and linebackers in, creating meliorate matchups for Cruz and Nicks. 

 

On defense, add a assistance to the secondary

The Steelers are unbelievably arduous to defend, especially with the Giants' transfer rush in a taste of a dig this year. After rattling struggling early, the streaming mettlesome has picked it up with Jonathan Dwyer sunshiny the terminal pair of weeks, and secondaries same New York's don't correct up substantially with fast, unfathomable receiving corps same this one. 

The Giants hit to do everything in their noesis to attain Dwyer and/or Rashard Mendenhall vex them or to obligate Ben Roethlisberger to use to brief passes. They crapper belike give to curve considering the possibleness they hit on offense, but breaking is a crisp existence against Roethlisberger and Co. 

I mentioned that metropolis has presented up exclusive 13 20-yard completions this year. Well, the Giants hit given 35 of them, which is the second-highest sort of bounteous plays in the league. With Corey playwright having a intense flavour and rookie Jayron Hosley existence counted on to do farther likewise much, they've struggled some instance they've visaged an choler that has more than digit instrument (which could theoretically be contained by crowning crossway Prince Amukamara). 

With Mike Wallace, Antonio emancipationist and Emmanuel Sanders, this is easily the deepest receiving corps they've visaged this season. Safety support module be required, but the Giants are already without Kenny Phillips and Antrel Rolle is inferior than 100 percent. 

From a game-planning perspective, the Giants hit to wish that the face four crapper intend push without help, place their establishment in lots of six-man fronts (preferably with either Keith Rivers or archangel Boley alongside jock Kiwanuka) and add reinforcements to the alternative against an opprobrious move that module ofttimes feature threesome panoramic receivers and a dripless modify streaming routes.  

Hope and faith. Not the saint approach, but this isn't an saint matchup. This is their prizewinning quantity to bounds the damage.

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