In taking a gander at the Steerlers DVOA rankings from Football Outsiders I was hoping to find a fatal flaw that the Patriots might hope to exploit, but there certainly isn’t one jumping off the page.
The Steelers are 2nd in defensive DVOA (4th vs. pass, 1st vs. run), and 17th in offensive DVOA (15th passing, 17th rushing). So yes the defense looks… uh what’s the word… oh right.. impenetrable, while the offense looks like they might possibly have trouble moving the ball. Of course that’s if the Patriots defense shows up and plays well, something they didn’t do last weekend.
If there was ever a game you could expect the Pats to go spread it has to be this one.