The Steelers will need to get something going on the ground to prevent Baltimore pass rush specialists Elvis Dumervil and Terrell Suggs from teeing off on Roethlisberger.
Darren McFadden, a 2008 top 10 pick by Oakland, gets perhaps his last shot to reverse years of unfulfilled promise, this time behind one of the league's best offensive lines. Lance Dunbar, the change-of-pace player in the Dallas offense, could see an expanded role.
"We are conducting an inquiry as to how the rappelling equipment got in," Emory said. "We don't know at this time but we are trying to determine that."
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"At the end of the day, you want everybody in the building to have a high morale," Keim said. "You want the coaches to be excited about the players they're going to coach, because they have to fit, schematically, what our coaches are asking them to do."