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He has 18 consecutive games with five catches and 70 yards. I mentioned this above, and it’s not hyperbole. How has the undersized receiver been able to create such production for the Steelers?

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There’s a huge amount of potential in the offense, and even with setting a franchise record scoring 27.3 points a game last year, the 31.2 points a game they scored over their last 10 games could be more indicative of where they will be in 2015.Ģ) According to Pro Football Focus, Antonio Brown was the top rated receiver in the entire NFL. Markus Wheaton had 68 catches, and he was up-and-down all year. Antonio Brown cannot be guarded, and we saw by the end of the season a remarkably talented receivers in Martavis Bryant (not just a one-trick pony, he ran underneath routes at a high level by the end of the year).

On top of all of that, they have the deepest wide receivers group in the league in terms of athleticism. We’re amid a project with Pro Football Focus right now, breaking down what they deemed to be the best plays of the 2014 season among Steelers players, and what we’re finding in breaking all those plays down is many of them are the result of what appears to be a play change at the line of scrimmage. The Steelers’ offense became dynamic, and with an underrated quarterback in terms of intelligence, Ben Roethlisberger, they could have four plays called at any time, and they could seamlessly move from one to another at the line of scrimmage. Protection improved, and with it, the emergence of Le’Veon Bell – who went from reasonably decent to superstar from 2013 to 2014. They had the same five starters as they had in Week 1 in nearly every game, and never more than two of them out at a time. The change this season was a combination of experience and health. That, in turn, made them largely one-dimensional, and it wasn’t very hard to prepare a defense to counter them. Their running back position was deplorable in 2011-12, and the offensive line was a big part of their lack of running ability. The Steelers’ biggest enemy in recent years hasn’t been a lack of talent as much as it’s been a lack of continuity. How were the Steelers able to create such an effective passing offense? And will they be able to replicate it next year? It was also the highest passing DVOA of Ben Roethlisberger’s career. Neal currently writes for Steelers Wire and was the former editor of the Steelers SB Nation blog Behind the Steel Curtain.ġ) In 2014, the Steelers led the league in passing DVOA, beating out Rodgers, Manning, and Brady led teams. With the league in sort of a dead period during the summer, I decided to send out some questions to Neal Coolong.