Just a really interesting analysis that mostly confirms a lot of what we notice at home. I imagine its even more widespread when NFL franchises have entire departments dedicated to noticing these types of things.

On a side note, I really cant recommend this guy's account enough. He does amazing breakdowns for all things, and he also explains it in a way that's understandable no matter your level of football knowledge.

Great analysis by @film.watchers1 on Instagram about why Tomlin's defenses have been picked apart recently
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26 comments

  1. I think that the NFL fully figured out both the Steelers offense and (especially) defensive schemes. This is a “good” thing; we are finally getting our subpar coaching exposed, and ideally it leads to change

  3. I love Tomlin but something is fundamentally wrong with this team. We have talent but it’s not being utilized properly. Something has to give. If the game has changed and Tomlin can’t adapt then it’s time to move on.

  5. does it get anymore obvious that tomlin is out if his depth? we have fucking youtubers picking apart his defense. absolutely pathetic i’m so tired of this

  8. I mean this guy could probably pick games from the past decade and say about the same thing. Very depressing

  10. I don’t know a lot of x’s and o’s. But my understanding was we went and got guys like Slay and Ramsey to pair with JPJ because we wanted physicality and the ability to play more press man on the boundary.

    Playing them so far off the line just seems antithetical to that. So while I’m probably the one who is wrong due to ignorance, it just doesn’t make sense…

  12. I don’t understand why they want to run man coverage with two aging corners. And even with JPJ in he’s decently fast but handsy so why put them in a place they would be trailing faster players?

  14. Steelers are still playing predicable vanilla pre-season defense while the rest of the league is playing meaningful football

  15. Meh, the Steelers D is predicated on getting enough pressure that single-high safety coverage (cover 3, not actually cover 1 like he says – the DBs start deep and are technically playing zone, it just effectively ends up man coverage when there are 2 receivers running routes like that) like that can hold up. If there isn’t pressure, it simply won’t for any team (a ball-hawk safety can help, but as you see on these plays, if the QB can just wait long enough to read them and throw the other way on crossers). This year’s struggles have been more of a personnel thing than scheme – if that highly-paid of a front doesn’t get consistent pressure and speed the QB up, we’re gonna get diced up in the secondary no matter the scheme. We could play cover 2 and have a second player up top to stop plays like this (which is exactly what we tend to do in pure passing downs), but we’re getting too gashed in the run game to remove another player from the box. The solution is for the front to play better, there’s no scheme fix here.

  19. They’ll do it again in New England. No adjustment. Just go out there and do the same stuff because we are the Steelers super duper tough guys!!!

  25. So what was the point of signing Ramsey and Slay and Echols if we don’t trust them in tight man coverage? Not to mention that playing off so much gives opposing QBs the opportunity to get rid of the ball quickly, which doesn’t help the pass rush.

  26. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, wtf Mike. How we getting beat the same way in back to back weeks??? Where is our coaching

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