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. Our X Factor for tomorrow’s game against the Dallas Cowboys.
X Factor: Ball Security
The Steelers are the obvious heavy favorites in this one. But it’s the NFL and all our projections and assumptions meaning nothing until the clock hits zero. The best way to lose these “gimmie” games is to beat yourself. Steelers beating Steelers. Chiefly, turning the football over. Lost the TO battle and you put yourself in a position to lose any game, no matter what the records are, what personnel you have, anything else you’re “winning” on paper.