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Originally Posted by Easy 6

But Roethlisberger is back there keeping the defense honest with the constant threat of a big downfield play, which in turn makes running the ball easier

All good DC's in the playoffs are going to minimize the deep ball. I bet the Pats play Pitt very similarly to how KC played them - focus on taking Brown out and force Pitt to beat you with the run game. At the end of the day Pitt beat KC because they could run and knew that KC couldn't even match them when they settled for 3s. I don't think the running game is nearly as dead as you think. That's what makes NE so dangerous as well, they can do both.