One thing the Pittsburgh Steelers struggled with in their preseason-opener involved their run game. It took them forever to get the ground game going last week, and that was something they wanted to improve coming into Saturday’s showdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. According to Skylar Thompson, Pittsburgh did just that.
“Yeah, I mean it’s tremendous,” Thompson said of the ground game Saturday, via audio provided by the team’s PR department. “Anytime we can get the run going like that, it opens up the play [action] pass, it opens up the drawback, it opens up all that stuff.