Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin is unafraid to place the blame on the group of people who deserved it most against Green Bay
There is plenty of blame to go around.
It’s hard to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense the last two weeks and think of any word to describe them other than disappointing. It was one thing to lose on a short week, against a Cincinnati Bengals team that has Ja’Marr Chase and Steelers’ grim reaper Joe Flacco.
But then came Sunday night and the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense looked even worse. They let Jordan Love carve up the secondary like a Christmas ham. It was pitch and catch all night. At one point in the game, Love had 20, that’s right 20 straight completions.
And there is an old saying football, “either you’re coaching it or allowing it to happen.” And Mike Tomlin knows that the coaching in Pittsburgh isn’t good enough right now.
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“Certainly, you start with the schematics, said Tomlin after the game. “Man, because that’s the leadership component of it. And certainly we’ll be looking at everything that we’re doing. Man, because some of these problems are somewhat repetitive, and we’re not getting better fast enough. As I mentioned, they made some significant plays on possession down ball, and, you know, you got to get off on third down, and we didn’t do it well enough. And particularly in the third quarter, it was some significant ones.”
While it’s good to hear Tomlin take the blame for his defense, it kind of falls on deaf ears. Because it’s been Mike Tomlin’s defense for the past 18 years, and in recent seasons it’s rinse and repeat when it comes to getting gashed in the run game, blowing coverages on the backend and allowing every team’s tight end to look like Rob Gronkowski.
Julian Edelman went viral earlier this year when he called out the Steelers’ scheme for being so predictable yet here we are, and it’s still the same spot drop zone coverage, straight up man coverage looks and predominant single high safety alignment.
“You knew exactly what they were doing. And they still do what they did,” said Edelman on his Games with Names podcast. They still do the same expletive* as when I was playing Tomlin’s defense. I’m like, ‘We still have linebackers covering the slot? Every time we play the Steelers, I have at least nine catches. You would think that they would change it. But no, they do what they do.”
And for the Steelers, what they do is simply not working anymore.
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