BlitzburghRockCity
11-14-2011, 07:31 AM
CINCINNATI -- Ben Roethlisberger often has said how much he enjoys running the no-huddle offense, so when Steelers offensive coordinator Bruce Arians floated the idea to him late in the third quarter of Sunday's Steelers-Bengals game, he treated it like a rhetorical question.
"He came to me and said 'Do you want to do it?" Roethlisberger said, "and I said, 'Absolutely, you don't have to ask me twice.'"
The decision to go no-huddle turned out to be a good one as the Steelers, who had just watched the Bengals score to tie the game at 17-17, took the field at their 19 and drove 81 yards on 11 plays, scoring what turned out to be the winning touchdown on a 9-yard run by Rashard Mendenhall.
Roethlisberger said it was the first time the Steelers had used the no-huddle on the road this season. He said it came at the perfect time because the offense needed a spark.
"That was kind of the mentality, let's go no-huddle and see if we can get down there, let's answer," Roethlisberger said. "We take pride in wanting to be the best and that was our time to do it, to step up and score. We always want to answer.
"We needed [the no-huddle]. We did a good job with it last week and it was just time, time to step up and change the pace a little bit and I think we spread it around pretty good in that no-huddle."
Roethlisberger said it is tougher to run the no-huddle on the road because of the crowd noise. There are a lot of calls that the players have to hear and if even a single player isn't on the same page, it can cause confusion and mistakes.
"When you go down the field like that, those are the ones you are proud of the guys," Roethlisberger said. "It was loud and we are calling stuff out and I don't think we had any miscommunications, so that was good."
From the PG (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11318/1189791-66-0.stm#ixzz1dgMjhJAC)
"He came to me and said 'Do you want to do it?" Roethlisberger said, "and I said, 'Absolutely, you don't have to ask me twice.'"
The decision to go no-huddle turned out to be a good one as the Steelers, who had just watched the Bengals score to tie the game at 17-17, took the field at their 19 and drove 81 yards on 11 plays, scoring what turned out to be the winning touchdown on a 9-yard run by Rashard Mendenhall.
Roethlisberger said it was the first time the Steelers had used the no-huddle on the road this season. He said it came at the perfect time because the offense needed a spark.
"That was kind of the mentality, let's go no-huddle and see if we can get down there, let's answer," Roethlisberger said. "We take pride in wanting to be the best and that was our time to do it, to step up and score. We always want to answer.
"We needed [the no-huddle]. We did a good job with it last week and it was just time, time to step up and change the pace a little bit and I think we spread it around pretty good in that no-huddle."
Roethlisberger said it is tougher to run the no-huddle on the road because of the crowd noise. There are a lot of calls that the players have to hear and if even a single player isn't on the same page, it can cause confusion and mistakes.
"When you go down the field like that, those are the ones you are proud of the guys," Roethlisberger said. "It was loud and we are calling stuff out and I don't think we had any miscommunications, so that was good."
From the PG (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11318/1189791-66-0.stm#ixzz1dgMjhJAC)