Pouncey went out the play before the touchdown in the first quarter. So Legursky was in on all the offensive scoring drives. Here's a little knowledge about how bad the Steelers were after Pouncey went out. Yards rushing gained with Pouncey, 33. Yards rushing gained with Legursky, 115.
"peteralan71" wrote:
He went out in the first quarter?
Here's a little knowledge about math. 33 yds X 4 (quarters) = 132 total yards if Pouncey would have stayed in the game. 115 yds / 3 (quarters played) = 38 yards per quarter, so if Legursky would have been in the whole game, he would have racked up 152 yds (38 X 4).
NOW, we can look at the extrapolated 33 vs. 38 yds per quarter, or the 132 vs. 152 yds, but what it boils down to is that Pouncey would have helped account for 87% of the yards that Legursky did. It should also be taken into consideration that the injury did not happen directly at the end of the quarter, so the numbers are skewed. Also, Mendenhall was just warming up in the 1st quarter, as RB's do, and fell into more of a sync during the game. When stepping back and looking at the predicted 4-quarter contributions for either Center, the difference is very negligible.
"Tezzy" wrote: