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Since they paid out a horrible 5 times in 16 football wagering competitions, football gambling devotees were put off by the careless play of the Steelers a year ago. Football gambling handicappers were more put off by the off season reports about Ben Roethlisberger who will be suspended for the start of the football wagering season.



Despite the fact that no charges were filed he was roasted in the press and by disgusted supporters after Roethlisberger confronted accusations of sexual abuse for the 2nd straight year. The quarterback was wanting to put it all behind him by centering on football and has had a fantastic training camp.

But he did not see action, much as he needed to, in the Steelers preseason opener.

Pittsburgh scored a 23-7 win over the Detroit Lions and covered the football odds as 3-point home faves as the competition went under the total of 33.5. In their next preseason matchup, the Steelers will play at the giants on August 21.

The competition with Detroit was marred by monsoon like rains that delayed action for well over an hour. Byron Leftwich, who is planned to start in place of Roethlisberger during his 6-game regular season suspension, was ineffective versus the Lions.

Third string quarterback Dennis Dixon was the most successful signal caller for the Steelers as he threw for a touchdown in addition to connecting on a bomb that put in place an additional score. Dixon said, “I’m having a blast.” He might have been the happiest Steeler in the opener. Hometown devotees, who eventually started chanting “We want Ben, We want Ben” as Leftwich had trouble, were surely not booing Roethlisberger that day.

“With the number of snaps we anticipated the first offense running, it just wasn’t appropriate to play him,” said Pittsburgh head coach Mike Tomlin. “He wanted to play. He’s had an awesome training camp.” Tomlin was clearly not thrilled with the results of the 1st offensive unit, which will be a problem with the Steelers capacity to defeat the NFL lines. Since Tomlin was hoping the unit would start to click, Leftwich got twice the amount of playing time than was anticipated, although it never did.

“We weren’t really clicking,” explained Leftwich. “We did some things not so good, but we’ll work on it.” It may be a actually huge problem since the future of the 2010 season for the Steelers is going to rely greatly on Leftwich. He might leave Roethlisberger with a string of losses to make up for when he rejoins the squad later this season if he can’t gel in his performance with the rest of the squad. The more competitions the Steelers lose up front, the harder Roethlisberger is going to have to work to compensate. But Roethlisberger can step into a squad that’s already on a roll and moving along nicely into their 2010 season if Leftwich can pull this off and maybe get a few wins early on. It is plenty of responsibility for Leftwich to undertake.

Pittsburgh is a football gambling co-favorite with the Baltimore Ravens to win the AFC North.


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