Just to start some conversation around this game, here's some basic and not so basic stats about us vs the Steelers. Full disclosure, I have some good friends that are Steelers fans, and any other week but this one they are my second team.
The mother fucking Steelers are:
22-6 lifetime against us, including Baltimore
14-2 at home vs us (we won most recently in 2008, prior to that is was 1968, that's once in the last 50 years)
8-4 in Indy
5-0 vs Indy in the playoffs
Basically, until we show otherwise, we are Pittsburgh's bitch. Only one team has a batter winning percentage against us, the Carolina Panthers, against whom we are 1-5, a statistical aberration from a small sample size. We've won more often against the Patriots.
Offense:
PPGColts: 22.6 (16th)
Steelers: 21.4 (20th)
Passing YPGColts: 217.4 (23rd)
Steelers: 206.1 (26th)
Passing YPAttemptColts: 6.6 (19th)
Steelers: 6.4 (23rd)
Avg Passer Rating:Colts: 98.9 (13th) (wtfg JB)
Steelers: 86.2 (21st)
Rushing YPG:Colts: 128.4 (11th)
Steelers: 88.1 (28th)
Rushing YPG (road games):Colts: 183.3 (3rd)!
Steelers: 78.3 (24th)
Rushing YPG (home games):Colts: 87.2 (23rd)
Steelers: 78.3 (24th)
Defense:
Passing YAPGColts: 238.1 (15th)
Steelers: 233.6 (13th)
Passing YAPAttemptColts: 7.2 (19th)
Steelers: 6.6 (12th)
Avg Passer Rating Against:Colts: 99.8 (22nd)
Steelers: 87.0 (10th) (this is likely the most worrisome stat)
Rushing YAPG:Colts: 111.3 (20th)
Steelers: 103.0 (15th)
Rushing YAPG (road games):Colts: 95.0 (11th)
Rushing YAPG (home games):Steelers: 105.5 (16th)