Joey Porter Jr.’s worst game of his professional career? It wasn’t BAD BAD, but he got beat a couple times and should have had a few INTs.

Steelers’ defense got torn up first few drives, soft zone got beat up and they didn’t really adjust well after their strategy to deal with Richardson, have his inaccuracy short and medium bail you out got put on it’s head when Flacco came in.

I did think the Colts matched up well with the Steelers, having one of the best o-lines in the league to help neutralize the Steelers biggest strength (and obviously having Highsmith out hurts the defense a ton)

Colts had a great game plan to take advantage of the Steelers linebackers. Just from watching the game on television we saw them get beat up.

It was a true Fields made bad plays, but he also made good ones.

HOW MANY WEEKS IN A ROW ARE WE GOING TO SAY, ALL THEY NEED TO DO IS CLEAN UP THE SLOPPY PLAY?

Too many missed assignments, bad communication and more

I’m interested to dive back into the film again because their run game looks a lot like it did early in the year with Canada, heavy sets, zone runs that get easily stuffed because we can see them coming. I can’t wait until Arthur Smith discovers what the Steelers staff did later last year, maybe we should mix it up, call more gap/power stuff and not be so easy to stack the box against.
-watching this all 22 film has me angry with how awful the Steelers are with this play calling

EVERY TIME YOU BRING MORE PEOPLE CLOSE TO THE OFFENSIVE LINE, THE DEFENSE BRINGS THE SAME NUMBERS. YOU AREN’T MAKING IT EASIER TO RUN, IT’S ACTUALLY HARDER.

Patrick Queen…oof. I’m not sure he’s going to be on the team this time next year if he keeps up this play. Really bad against the run 🙁
-he just can’t get off blocks, why isn’t he using his athleticism to shoot past the linemen? He clearly can’t take them on head on but he just kinda sits there when they’re on him and waits for the linemen to meet him then he just dances with them sadie hawkins style
-would rather have Elandon Roberts out there every down

The first drive, they just got dominated up front, Colts o-line really did a nice job

The offensive line is bad at picking up blitzes and stunts. They’re young but let’s hope coaching catches on soon with this (we had the same problems last year)

I like Mason McCormack. I’d keep him at left guard, move Seumalo back to right since Daniels is out for the year and probably gone as a free agent and Seumalo spent his time in Philly as a right guard.

Steelers need to figure out a way to save TJ Watt from these chips. I suggest overload blitzes, or just some sort of nickel blitz so that way if the chip hits TJ, the guy has a free rush at the QB

Steelers don’t disguise their defenses enough. It’s too obvious when they’re in press man vs. zone, etc.

I don’t know why Pickens isn’t the first read 50% of the time. It feels like Fields is focused elsewhere too often when Pickens is almost always open

I said this a couple weeks back but it’s showing on film again. Muth cannot separate in man coverage. The way he runs feels like he’s going 80% out there

It almost feels like Najee isn’t patient enough for this zone scheme. Like he’s the guy in Madden that’s always holding right trigger and running into the back of his o-line. Need a little bit more Le’Veon Bell in his game. We saw what someone with good vision did when Patterson came in for those rushes before he got hurt

…I just watched the Steelers send a backer from TJs side and he got in untouched…Flacco got the ball out quick (for no gain) but I want to see more of this. Free rushers are free money!

The next play TJ flipped sides and they sent an overload blitz from there with Herbig dropping out as the left edge (TJ’s normal side) The play ended up being an explosive one sadly but I like the mix up
-you can def tell TJ doesn’t feel comfortable on the right side
–I really think they should work on attacking the double on TJ, take notes from the old LB coach of the Steelers now coaching in Minnesota

Leal played…okayish, not really. He needs to learn pass rush moves if they’re going to play him on the edge. He just runs into the tackle, he should be trying to run over the tackle if wants to use power moves like that
-the more I watch the less I like

Have I not talked enough about DeShon Elliott? Dude’s been an absolute stud pickup. Nice work Omar.

Najee being a vet but not knowing to go out of bounds in a running clock situation is embarrassing.
-no game situational intelligence along with his inability to effectively run in a zone based system…I feel like the Steelers made the right decision this offseason.

I do feel like Arthur Smith’s long distance pass calls are pretty bad. The standard play is “just go to the sticks and stop.” Can this guy watch some other team’s calls in this situation. Streak, post, dig. Or streak, corner, flat. PUT SOME DUDES IN CONFLICT in this situation.

Final thoughts, brutal mistakes, bad run game, iffy pass concepts. Same thing, different week on offense even though Fields really showed out at times, which is super encouraging. Defense def suffered from no Highsmith and the Colts taking advantage of quick strikes, exposing the Steelers linebackers was just good strategy.