Leading up to last night’s game, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger talked about wanting to get as many wide receivers as much work as they could with the first-team offense. That didn’t necessarily come to fruition for multiple reasons—for one thing, Diontae Johnson was inactive, and the weather was not cooperating. Their first two drives were short as well.
But the main reason that Roethlisberger cited following the game about why they did not get to move a lot of pieces around, as he said he’d hoped they would be able to in the regular season, is because they were looking to establish a rhythm in the no huddle on the road.