By ALAN ROBINSON
AP Sports Writer

PITTSBURGH (AP) --  Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator
Bruce Arians hears Ben Roethlisberger's campaign speech so
often, he probably can recite it.

It goes something like this: "You know, I think this would be a
good week for the no-huddle."

Of course, Roethlisberger believes every week is a good week to
run the offense he likes best.

"He's lobbied every week for it," Arians said Thursday.

No doubt Roethlisberger is especially eager to go to the
no-huddle Monday night in Denver, given how much success the
Baltimore Ravens had while running 31 plays out of no-huddle
sets during their 30-7 victory over the Broncos (6-1) on Sunday.

The NFL is a copycat league, and the Steelers (5-2) are aware of
how the Ravens repeatedly kept the Broncos off balance by
forcing them to keep their base defense on the field and
preventing them from substituting situationally.

"It's a possibility," Roethlisberger said. "We'll go into it
with the mentality that we'll go in with the game plan we've got
and, if we need to go into the no-huddle, we'll do it."

In the no-huddle, the quarterback gathers the team at the line
of scrimmage immediately after a play ends, makes the next play
call there and sets everyone up properly before taking the snap,
often in a shotgun formation. Usually, there's not enough time
for the defense to make substitutions.

"Baltimore ran the ball fairly good (out of the no-huddle),"
wide receiver Hines Ward said. "They made plays ... but we're
not going to go in with an identical game plan. We're going to
go in with what works for us. We're us, and we're going to work
with what we do best."

What the Steelers did best while beating Minnesota 27-17 on Oct.
25 was, coincidentally, running their hurry-up offense. Their
only offensive touchdown came during a 91-yard drive that lasted
slightly more than a minute and ended with Roethlisberger
throwing a 40-yard scoring pass to Mike Wallace with 24 seconds
left in the second quarter.

While operating in the hurry-up, Roethlisberger was 4 of 7 for
85 yards, with one incompletion coming when he spiked the ball.
The rest of the game - the Steelers used the no-huddle on that
drive only - Roethlisberger was 10 of 19 for 90 yards, partly
because the Vikings kept using two safeties in deep zone
coverage to discourage the pass.

"It's something Ben likes to do," Ward said. "It keeps defenses
on their heels. ... We've got a great feel for it and we've had
some success running the no-huddle. It's just a matter of
whatever Ben calls, all 11 guys are on the same page and we move
forward."

Arians said this earlier season that virtually the entire
offense can be run from the no-huddle.

"He can use almost 80 percent of the playbook in it, and he's
gotten very proficient with it," Arians said.

Going to the no-huddle in Denver might be more difficult because
the thin air discourages teams from keeping the same personnel
groups on the field for extended plays. A receiver who runs deep
patterns on three consecutive plays, for example, is more likely
to feel tired in Denver than if he were running the same plays
in a dome stadium.

While Roethlisberger agreed it is different playing in Denver,
Arians said he won't let the altitude affect his play-calling -
or whether the Steelers use the no-huddle.

"It's just a look that we use; we'll see how it goes and this
game is one in which it could show up a lot or it could not show
up at all," Arians said. "We'll just see how the game goes."

The Steelers are running the ball less than they have in any
season in their history except 1991, which means defenses long
conditioned to trying to take away the Steelers' running game
are increasingly playing a Tampa Two-like zone defense to
discourage Roethlisberger from going downfield.

Using a no-huddle in Denver might help the Steelers get their
running game going because it wouldn't allow the Broncos to get
extra defensive backs onto the field on certain plays.

"We're trying to be balanced," Ward said. "If we can't run the
ball, we're going to find whatever means we can to win
ballgames. We're going to stick with what got us to 5-2. We
don't worry about stats."