In order to keep their 100-yard streak, the Pittsburgh Steelers must find a way to slow down the Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, who gained 180 yards against the Cleveland Browns and 143 yards against the Baltimore Ravens.
To beat the unbeaten 6-0 Vikings on Sunday seems like an impossible task for the six-time Super Bowl Champion team Steelers. Vikings quarterback Brett Favre remains one of the NFL’s prolific passers, and Peterson’s 624 yards rushing lead the NFL and his 5.16 yards per carry average through 36 career games is the highest in NFL history at that stage of a career.
But the Steelers have their own confidence. Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin refused to call Peterson the NFL’s best running back. The team itself is No. 2 against the run and managed to limit No. 2 rusher Chris Johnson of the Tennessee Titans to 57 yards and No. 3 rusher Bengals’ Cedric Benson, who is the first to break the Baltimore Ravens’ 100-yard streak this season, to 76 yards. They have kept the 100-yard streak for 24 regular season games and find no reason to back away from the challenge of rusher in the Vikings jersey.
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