Steelers Vs Raiders X-Factor: Run Game

As we’ll do every week to get you ready for the upcoming game, our X-Factor of the week. Sometimes it’s a player, unit, concept, or scheme. Here’s our X-Factor for Sunday night’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders.

X-FACTOR: Run Game

Nuts and bolts. It doesn’t get any more basic than that. Run. The. Ball. And if Pittsburgh can’t do it against the Raiders, there’s even bigger problems then you think. Not that things don’t look bleak right now.

The Steelers have to establish the run. There’s not other option. Of course, that’s always their goal, they never have a plan of “let’s not run it well” but the Raiders are ripe for the picking. They’re not a good run defense, middling against Denver and…