Notes from the Pittsburgh Steelers loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
First Half
– Kick coverage. Golden-Fort-Williams-Nix-Sensabaugh-Boswell-Hilton-Watson-Matakevich-Chickillo-DHB
– Steelers in Cover 1 on their first third down.
– Steelers are going to get another blocked punt. Came close several times Sunday.
– Punt return team. Chickillo-Watson-Fort-DHB-Matakevich-Nix-Wilcox-Golden. Sensabaugh and Burns the jammers. AB your punt returner.
– Nix and Maurkice Pouncey with a couple of key blocks on this Lead Strong run. 10 yard gain.
– Ryan Shazier is probably better in man than zone. At least, shallow zone. Too easily leaves his window, like here, opening up the hank concept in the middle.
– Williams and Sean Davis overlapping their gap here.
– Strong side B gap uncovered here. LB asked to fill but tough play. FB and RB follow through it and Leonard Fournette scores. Don’t know why the weakside was covered instead.
– Kick return unit. McDonald-Moats-Matakevich-Wilcox-Fort your front five. Robert Golden behind. Walton/Conner/Nix the wedge, JuJu/Watson the KRs.
– Cornerback flat footed, sitting on this out cut by JuJu. Breaks on the ball and the Jags’ defense gets off the field.
– Alejandro Villanueva not perfect but looking like his old self. Healthy, probably has his weight back to normal.
Second Half
– Tough assignment for Jesse James. Asked to reach the MIKE and can’t do it. Play blown up.
– Not sure what the goal was here. No threat of Rosie Nix getting the ball in the backfield. A time where it’d be smart to use a Pony backfield and bring in a second running back.
– AB out ‘n up. Bad idea, bad execution.
– No force defender. Steelers struggled with that in their over fronts. In it three times, gave up 31 yards on the ground.
