The Pittsburgh Steelers offense certainly had problems moving the football both on the ground and through the air Sunday night in the 2019 regular season opener against the New England Patriots. While Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger did manage to complete 27 passes Sunday night in the team’s blowout loss to the Patriots, 12 of those completions came in the last three offensive possessions in the fourth quarter and this when the game was already decided.
While several of Roethlisberger’s incompleted passes Sunday night were results of drops, the most glaring statistic to come out of all of his pass attempts against the Patriots is the fact that he only managed to complete just 4 of his 15 pass attempts that flew 10 or more yards in the air past the original line of scrimmage, according to our early game charting.