September 12, 2023 • 20 mins
Matt Williamson and Tom Opferman break down the Steelers Monday Night matchup against the Cleveland Browns
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got some work to do.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is the Advanced Scout with Tom Opperman and Mac Williamson.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Matt, it's tough to find the worst to describe just
how bad last week was for the Steelers, so we'll
just open it up with this stat It was the
greatest margin of defeat for a home game under Mike Tomlin.
So it doesn't get much worse when they're playing at
Hines Field slash Acrosure Stadium.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, good point. I mean it was ugly. It got
ugly early. They played a really good team and it showed.
And I think a week ago on this podcast, we
may have undersold the Niners a little bit and we
gave a lot of credit, but I didn't see that
buzzsaw coming.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
More specifically, we undersold Purty a little bit on the
last broadcast too. That's sure pretty impressive. Still not completely
sold on him, as I'm sure you're not either, true,
but that.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Was pretty impressive coming off with that.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Looked like a lot of people say he looked like
the first round pick and take it look like mister irrelevant.
Before we turn the page on San Francisco, I do
have to throw this in here too, with the exception
of Kansas City who had a buy and isn't it
nuts who had a buy and didn't play a game
After playing the forty nine ers last year, Every team
that played San Francisco lost the following week last season,
collectively going oh and fifteen, which is the first time
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in NFL history that that has ever occurred.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Bonkers and I have two reasons for it. First of all,
the Niners played a very easy schedule last year, so
a lot of those teams were bad and played bad
the following week. But more so, I think the Niners
just beat the crap out of you, and it takes
a toll.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
When I saw that stat, when you email that stat
blast to me, it reminded me of that other stat
that I think you liked to throw out there where
when the Steelers and the Ravens play, I always bet
the other team the next week they're going to cover
the spread. I think they're just in a rock fight,
so it's going to be they're going to be sore,
it's going to be you're not gonna get their best effort,
even if they want to try.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
So at least you get the extra day though for
this one, and it's at home and right, you know
all that stuff. But yeah, I mean, oh, fifteen's pretty telling.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, Cleveland comes to town twenty four to three victory
over the Bengals, so they've got some momentum. But Matt
Cleveland always beats the Bengals. So I mean, you know,
people are saying, oh, look out for the Browns. They've
proven that they might be different this year. This happens
every year, even when Burrow's there. They come in the
acting and to beat the Steelers. That'll be that first
Oh yeah, they might be a little bit better than
we expected them to be. The team split last year,
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each team winning at home. Here's a great stat about
how bad Cleveland is though fifteen straight seasons the Browns
have had a negative point differential dating back to two
thousand and eight. That's the longest streak of its kind
of NFL history, and last year the Browns were outscored
by twenty points. They were like the most basic even.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Team in the history of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Forty two touchdowns scored, forty two touchdowns, allowed their running
game average four point seven yards per carry, and then
they also allowed four point seven yards per carry.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Us. Yeah, I mean, they were just basic fifteen years
in a row. It's nuts.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, I mean, at least they're in the plus after
one week now.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Before we get into the series history and the offense
and defense for the Browns. Just one other note I
wanted to bring up was the rivalry within the rivalry
TJ Watt versus Miles Garrett. Coming into the twenty twenty
three season, they've been drafted in the same year, tied
for the most career sacks per game all time at
point eight nine and what leads the NFL the seventy
seven and a half sacks since entering the league in
twenty seventeen. What is also first in quarterback hits and
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forced fumbles during that time. Watt and Garrett combined for
four sacks in Week one three by Watt. He also
forced two fumbles and recovered one. So it's just amazing
to see in this rivalry between these two great teams,
this rivalry at that position kind of emerging and being
consistent year after year.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Who are the best? I mean almost a sack of
game for both of them.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Nuts.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
And what's bonkers though, is, as people know, especially last year,
TJ missed a lot of games and still nobody's outsacked
him since he came in the league, including Garrett. I mean,
it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
The Steelers and Browns have met one hundred and forty
three times dating back to nineteen fifty. Of those one
hundred and forty three matchups, only three have been in
the postseason. Pittsburgh is two to one in the playoffs
against the Browns. Overall, this series sits at eighty sixty
two and one. To begin the series, Cleveland ripped off
an eight game winning streak, won twelve of the first
thirteen contests and only had two losses out of the
first eighteen times they met, and then that was pretty
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much it for the Browns success.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
In nineteen sixty two, the time started to change.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
The Browns won four games between that point in nineteen
eighty three and then even more extreme in nineteen ninety four,
Pittsburgh won forty two of the next fifty games, with
the tie thrown in during that time. So you want
to talk about big brother versus Little Brother syndrome, this
rivalry pretty much defines that it does.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And the one thing I mean, I know this is
ancient history, but the Browns were one of the best
organizations of league pre Super Bowl and when the Steelers
were just dismal. But since the Super Bowl era it
hasn't been close.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I'm taking a look at the Browns offensively. I think
it obviously starts with Nick Chubb. I mean he's the
catalyst for the offense, and that's where we should start
because I think stopping him is key for Pittsburgh. So
much easier said than done now too, though not with
the injuries to the Pittsburgh's off our defensive line.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, I mean the Hayward thing is a real problem. Obviously.
I'm really excited about Benton. I'm hoping this opens the
door for him to become a Yeah real.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
He played well too against the good tape that he
put out there. Yeah, he worked that center quite a
bit late in that game. I think it went unnoticed
because it was just so out of hand, but he did.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I actually wrote an article of players that didn't stink
in that game not named TJ. Watt, and Benton was
like the Toppo list.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
All right, let's put into perspective how good Chubb is.
Throughout NFL history, there are only one hundred and twenty
nine instances of a running back averaging five or more
yards per carry with at least one hundred and ninety carries.
Here are the only runners with more than three such
seasons in their career. Chubb, Who's five for five, so five,
He's He's literally perfect right now. Jim Brown had did
it nine times, Barry Good Yeah, Barry Sanders did it
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ten times. Probably would have done it more if he
just decided to play a little bit longer.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Jamal Charles did it eleven times. Fantasy Darling, Jamal Charles.
No surprise to see him there.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Chubb has never finished worse than eighth in the league
in yards per cary per attempt amongst running backs since
his rookie year. Over the twenty twenty one and twenty
twenty two seasons, Nick Chubb gained at least ten yards
on sixteen point six percent of his rushing attempts. He
has also gained twenty or more yards on four point
seven percent of his rushes. Both are the best in
the league over that time, and since twenty eighteen, Chubb
ranks second in rushing yards as well as rushing touchdowns.
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I'm sure you can put together who he might rank
second behind.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
In both of those categories.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
If it wasn't for another generational running back rumbling through
the NFL in Tennessee during the same kind of timeline.
Chubb would be something that you have never seen before.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah. Absolutely. I mean he's Eric Dickerson, He's you know,
Walter Payton. I mean, those guys aren't featured as much
as they were when I was a kid. But he's
the best ball carrier on the planet right now. I
mean maybe McCaffrey's the better football player they got last week.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Great, but hot start for that position.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, just like the edge guys are going to see now,
they get Josh Jacobs next week and Max Crosby.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
It really does not stop right six best rushing offensive
football last year for the Browns day of the second
most yards of Week one via the ground, and Chubb,
like we said, is the identity they don't have Cream Hunt.
Jerome Ford is the first one to get a crack
at the backup spot. Last week, Chub ran for one
hundred and six yards. He caught four passes, the most
of any Browns player. However, Chubb and Ford were each
in the game for thirty four percent of Cleveland's pass plays,
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but Chubb was the only running back that earned a
target against the Bengals, and that's pretty is because he's
been held under thirty catches in two hundred and forty
receiving yards every year that Kevin Stefanski has this has
been there. He averages just a little over thirty targets
per game since entering the league. So he's not really
a weapon in the passing. That's kind of what Kareem
Hunt's bag was when they had him. There is Jerome
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Ford not that kind of player either. Ubbard above him
in that aspect.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I think Tubble catch more passes than ever because the
number two guys so far behind.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Him were It's a clear one.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, but he's a dump off guy. I mean, he's
not a route runner. So what's amazing about the Chubb
numbers two is he's really not been a huge snapcount
guy over his career, you know, I mean in terms
of if he's not out there eighty percent of the snap.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Fifty three pots just a little over half the time.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
That's got to change this year. It did.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
It did Week one against Cincinnati against Cincinnati when Jerome
Ford was on the field thirty four percent of the time,
so I was Nick Chubb.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So it's not like they were really splitting that much duty.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
No, no, I mean he's going to be the clear
on the boy. I mean, his career is remarkable.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And as that game went on a little later, you
looked the box score, eighteen carries for Chub, fifteen for four.
You don't want to really wear down Chub that badly
late when you're already in control.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
The game was petty much in hand. I mean what
they did the Cincinnati's defense was or offense was ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
The biggest wild card for Cleveland, I think a lot
of the main reason why people had them either maybe
winning the division as a dark horse or finishing dead
last is Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
He played okay last week.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
He threwn out awful interception, I mean, just one of
the worst ones I saw in Week one, but he
had a nice rushing touchdown forty eight yards on the ground.
And in Watson's six games last year, he averaged twenty
nine point two rushing yards per game, So that's still
an aspect of his game that you kind of got
to keep an eye on. Thirty yards per game. Oh yeah,
forty eight last week again Cincinnati. In the touchdown, he'll
get a big first down with his feet if he
hasked to.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
No question, And they even did some things in the
first week where didn't even have a running back on
the field, like maybe three tight ends two receivers or
two tight ends three receivers and still ran the ball.
You know, treated him like it doesn't mean that they're
not going to run out of those situations.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Last year, Watson was just awful to the Browns offense.
They generated just one point two to two points per drive,
which was thirtieth during the time frame when Watson took
over to the end of the season last year in
the NFL. Over his six games last year for the Browns,
he also completed a career low fifty eight point two
percent of his passes. Career low marks and yards per
pass attempt, yards per completion, and touchdown rate as well.
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His interception rate was the highest that Watson had since
he was a rookie in the league, but in his
three full seasons he's never dipped below four four hundred
passing yards. He has an eighty nine to twenty nine
TDed interception ratio in his last full year eight hundred yards,
thirty three touchdowns, seven interceptions. You can see why the
Browns are so enticed and why this guy keeps getting
chance after chance.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
No doubt. I mean when he at his peak, which
was a long time ago. If you wun't realize, he
had a seven hundred day layoff between playing with his
suspension and holding out and all this stuff that went on,
but he was knocking on the door as a top
three type quarterback. Last we saw him and he Houston,
which again was like, I don't know, a thousand days
ago something like that. But since he's been a Brown,
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he's been pretty terrible.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, and he looked okay, okay one but to me,
it kind of looked more like a quarterback that had
an offseason to get comfortable in the offense and he
wasn't going to make a huge mistake.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Even though the interception was terrible.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
He's gonna be able to manage that offense better than
he was when he just dropped in from the clouds
last year.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And that is asking a lot. I mean, like, if
you're a Watson apologist, and frankly, there's not a lot
of them out there, not here, I mean, they will
tell you, well, he had an insane layoff, and if
you're suspended. You're not even in the meeting rooms or
practical or anything.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You just show up and like being injured.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
No, it's not like being injured. And they he played
in really bad weather and against really good defenses when
he got back exactly, but it was still.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Awful and in the prime of the season where teams
are tuned up. I mean they had three months to
get themselves in a year they ranked the playoff push. Now, yeah,
it was a tough sort was stapped against him, But
I kind of like that the deck was stacked against him,
not him. Yeah, what about his target Samari Cooper obviously
had the high target chair a last year twenty six
point one percent of the targets. He's a twenty six
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point one percent target chair and every route running his career,
so that's pretty much par for the course for Cooper.
He was target one hundred and thirty two times. That's
career high for him. His nine touchdowns were also a
career high, So very sneaky career year last year for
one of the better receivers.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Jacoby Brissett, though, was his bread and butter. He averaged
point six four touchdowns per game with him. That was
pretty much cut in half with Watson to zero point
three to three touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Offense was much better with Persett than Watson.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, I mean, if you were looking to make the
playoffs last year, the move was to probably just keep
per set going.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You spot out.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, what about the other guys though, Donovan Peoples Jones
and Elijah Cooper Peoples Jones had a seven game streak
of producing fifty receiving yards last year, but trying to
notice the trend here under forty five receiving yards and
six of the final seven games. There's a bit of
a change at the quarterback position. The fell off and
Elijah Moore. I think that was a pretty I like
more good addition, but also in addition they had to
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make because if it wasn't for that, Cooper and People's
would have been on an island out there.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
There would have been no one else in the receiving game.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Very true, And I like Amari Cooper, but he has
crazy home road splits over his career too, really really
bad player on the road compared to home all through
his career, which is odd.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Now, David and Joku, no tight end last year had
more red zone targets other than someone named Travis Kelcey
among NFL tight ends and amongst all tight ends, and
Joko finished eighth in both receptions per game and receiving
yards per game.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Djoko, to me, is just kind of that guy that
you've been waiting to break.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Out because he's got all the tools to be a
Kelsey and Andrews, and he's just never put it together.
But he The thing that scares me about him every
time the Steelers play the Browns is he can do
that against any given team, and he does it at
least once or twice a season. So like maybe you
spin the Roulette wheel and the ball lands in you're
a spot where and Djoko goes for one hundred yards
and he catches two red zone touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And I think it the Roulett wheel hits last year.
Every year it hits a little bit more. So he's
getting it.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Started to get better each three times than four times.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
He's always been a flash player, but he's flashing a
little more war lately. And they gave him money, so
don't sell him short.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
No, and they believe it.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and tight ends, as we always say,
bloom late. So one last note on the offense before
he flipped to the defense. Jack Coughlin injury pretty good
news for the Steelers. You don't want to watch injury
on anybody, but you'll take it if it happens. HeiG
Smith had four sacks last year against the Browns in
one of their meetings. Watt had four sacks in Big
Ben's heinz Field finale against the Browns a couple of
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years ago against Baker Mayfield put him right back and
remember people were kind of cooling off on he's going
to break straight hands record. Then he had four sacks
against the Browns. Oh okay, might break Trey Hands record.
Overall last year, the Steelers sacked the Browns nine times
between two games. So an injury to the Browns offensive line,
which is pretty damn good. I think the Steelers will
take that.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So Dale and I just recorded an episode of The
Drive and he found this out too, which I didn't know.
For his career, what averages a sack and a half
per game against Dominate Cleveland against the Browns Dominates to Cleveland.
I mean, that's a huge number.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Brown's defense.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Just like Chubb being the man on offense, there's clearly
one man on defense that stands above the rest Miles Garrett.
That might be a bit of an understatement though, Matt,
because in the context of the Browns pass rush, he's
never had a teammate reach double digit sacks. Zadaria Smith
has accomplished this in three of the past four seasons,
So the Brown's trying to go outside of the organization
bring someone in. Garrett was the most double teamed edge
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rusher in the league last year at a three point
thirteen percent rate, and garrett sixteen sacks accounted for forty
seven percent of the Browns team sack production. Tavian Bryant
last year was second on the team with just three sacks.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So they three sacks sixteen to three.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Right, he had like half their sacks, as you just mentioned.
So what they do. They went and got a conquo
from Houston. They've got Zadarius, got some established guys, they
drafted a couple of dudes, and they got Tomlinson on
the inside. So I mean it was really Miles Garrett
and the Pips. I mean, there was nothing else around
and no wonder he gets doubled like crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Not the case this year.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
In terms of position groups, it's one of the most
improved in the.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
League, and it also has a new league and Jim Schwartz,
who's a very accomplished defensive coordinator in the NFL, and
he used Garrett a little uniquely. Against Cincinnati, Garrett lined
as an off ball linebacker for four snaps. Those four
snaps resulted in a sack in three incomplete passes. Until
this year, Garrett has aligned off the ball just twenty
one times, so four times in just one game last week,
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twenty one previously in six seasons. Garrett has also dropped
into coverage in the game against Cincinnati on several occasions
as well. So they're using some different and you know what,
when a defensive coordinator like Jim Schwartz comes in, why
wouldn't you, you know, take the thoroughbred out of the
barn for a little bit and run him around a
little bit uniquely if you can.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, I mean Garrett.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Who's to say Garrett can't cover real quick. He's fast,
he's a freak. He's long as hell.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
You don't expect it, you know, you roll your coverages
that way and he doesn't come all of a sudden.
You're waisting blockers, you know, things like that. So and
those other guys I mentioned are good enough pass rushers,
he could do it once in a while.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Now, One thing about the twenty twenty two Rowns defense.
They started well average of two point three points per
first quarter of games. That was the best in the league.
But they were nineteenth best in the second quarters and
twenty sixth in the third and fourth quarters. So they
faded fast.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Beat up, yeah, because they didn't stop the run well,
they did worn down and worn down and worn down. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
One hundred and thirty nine yep, one hundred and thirty
five yards per game on the ground.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Last year.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
They did have a great passing defense though, fifth in
net passing yards allowed and fourth and completion percentage allowed
one hundred and ninety six point two passing yards per
game allowed last season. Only four defenses were better. So
Garrett can rush the passer and they have really good
options in the second area.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
They did wards a good player. Knew some' is a
good player. They played really well last week.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
But they can't stop and O's belied. Like we said.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
They also allowed twenty two rushing touchdowns last year, which
was the third most in the NFL. I know, we
just talked about how they went out and they improved
that defense, but still probably the.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Way to go at them.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I think, so attack them on the ground more so
than the Steelers did against the Niners, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, I meany ten carries or whatever isn't going to
cut in. I mean, I think we know that the
Steeler run pass ratio has to get much closer to
fifty to fifty and both probably it's runs all better
in this game, will probably win.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
No steerst fans will want to use the middle of
the field a lot more. Is it's a better opponent
in your opinion to do that.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Last year, everybody's a better opponent than the Niners. So
has a loaded question that I think got you. But
the Browns were still pretty good at defending the middle
of field last year. Teams didn't even mess with it.
Eighteen percent of the throws were between the numbers last
year against the Browns. Only the Jets saw less than that.
They first Burrow last week to throw seventy one percent
of his passes outside the numbers two, which is the
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most in his career, and he did not play well.
He had one of the worst performances I could ever
imagine Burrow having. He averaged under two yards per throw
on the passes outside the numbers.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Their numbers across the board. Cincinnati's offense were rare. I mean, like,
I think their longest completion was twelve yards. I mean
they threw to t Haagens eight times. He got zero
of them. I mean, like this stuff you.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Don't see now.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Also, in addition to adding guys like Zadaria Smith and
coonk Wo that can help in the pass rush, they
blitzed thirty eight percent of Joe Burrow's dropbacks, and on
those instances, Burrow was two for eleven for sixteen yards.
Burt was only blitzed sixteen percent of his dropbacks last
year in the NFL. So Schwartz came in and obviously
was grinding that table a little bit longer than some
other teams because it's their first opponent. He was like,
why is no one blitzing this guy? I'm going to
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throw the kitchen sink at him. Thirty eight percent blitz
rate is pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Like lowest in the league. And then they was opposite. Now,
is that going to be a Schwartz thing or is
that a.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Burrow Borough specific match up?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I mean, I thought it was noteworthy though, I.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Will say this, though we might not find out if
that's a Schwartz thing or a matchup specific thing, even
this week, because I think the matchup this week would
tell him to blitz Kenny pick it is.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I would assume he's got in quarterback. You're gonna want
to hite him, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, here's one stat that Steelers fans are going to
hate before we get to key matchups and wrap up here.
Browns forced to three and out on thirty six percent
of their drives last year. That was seventh best in
the NFL. Don't want to have PTSD flashbacks if not
converted the going and having three and outs to start
the game. Browns are pretty goodt getting off the field
in three.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Plays, absolutely, and they were great at it last week too.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Key matchups should not be any surprise to anybody listening
out there. Brown's running back Nick Chubb versus the Steelers linebackers.
Steeers linebackers were tortured last week by the master at
torturing inside linebackers, Kyle Shanahan and Christian McCaffrey's also the
master at doing that on the field. It gets no
easier this week with Nick Chubb.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
No it doesn't. It's a much different challenge in terms
of what they throw at you with Deebo Crossers and
the running back receiving skills. But now it's gotta be
b gap sound, get Chubb on the ground, don't let
him free, more traditional run fits.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And I'm sure you could put this together too.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
On offense, the Steelers pass protection has to hold up
against Brown's defensive end Miles Garrett. Last week they got
Nick Bosa. Nick Bosa was pretty quiet, but Drake Jackson
was not. This week maybe, yep, exactly, So you got
to also keep an eye out for that. You want
to key on Miles Garrett, but keeping out for Darius
Smith and other guys that could you know, ruin your
day as well.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Now, I mean, as you mentioned earlier, which was great,
was well, if you shut down Garrett last year, their
second leading sacker at.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Three sacks or whatever, you're not the cases here.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
There's no high Smith and now they have those guys,
so it's much different.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Matt.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I will be back again next week to break down
the Steelers and Raiders matchup in Week three, but Monday
Night football has to come first. Steelers and Browns at
Akroshuer Stadium. Kickoff is at eight fifteen Monday night for
Matt Williamson on Tom Opperman.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
This has been the Advanced Scout
We got some work to do.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is the Advanced Scout with Tom Opperman and Mac Williamson.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Matt, it's tough to find the worst to describe just
how bad last week was for the Steelers, so we'll
just open it up with this stat It was the
greatest margin of defeat for a home game under Mike Tomlin.
So it doesn't get much worse when they're playing at
Hines Field slash Acrosure Stadium.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, good point. I mean it was ugly. It got
ugly early. They played a really good team and it showed.
And I think a week ago on this podcast, we
may have undersold the Niners a little bit and we
gave a lot of credit, but I didn't see that
buzzsaw coming.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
More specifically, we undersold Purty a little bit on the
last broadcast too. That's sure pretty impressive. Still not completely
sold on him, as I'm sure you're not either, true,
but that.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Was pretty impressive coming off with that.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Looked like a lot of people say he looked like
the first round pick and take it look like mister irrelevant.
Before we turn the page on San Francisco, I do
have to throw this in here too, with the exception
of Kansas City who had a buy and isn't it
nuts who had a buy and didn't play a game
After playing the forty nine ers last year, Every team
that played San Francisco lost the following week last season,
collectively going oh and fifteen, which is the first time
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in NFL history that that has ever occurred.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Bonkers and I have two reasons for it. First of all,
the Niners played a very easy schedule last year, so
a lot of those teams were bad and played bad
the following week. But more so, I think the Niners
just beat the crap out of you, and it takes
a toll.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
When I saw that stat, when you email that stat
blast to me, it reminded me of that other stat
that I think you liked to throw out there where
when the Steelers and the Ravens play, I always bet
the other team the next week they're going to cover
the spread. I think they're just in a rock fight,
so it's going to be they're going to be sore,
it's going to be you're not gonna get their best effort,
even if they want to try.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
So at least you get the extra day though for
this one, and it's at home and right, you know
all that stuff. But yeah, I mean, oh, fifteen's pretty telling.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, Cleveland comes to town twenty four to three victory
over the Bengals, so they've got some momentum. But Matt
Cleveland always beats the Bengals. So I mean, you know,
people are saying, oh, look out for the Browns. They've
proven that they might be different this year. This happens
every year, even when Burrow's there. They come in the
acting and to beat the Steelers. That'll be that first
Oh yeah, they might be a little bit better than
we expected them to be. The team split last year,
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each team winning at home. Here's a great stat about
how bad Cleveland is though fifteen straight seasons the Browns
have had a negative point differential dating back to two
thousand and eight. That's the longest streak of its kind
of NFL history, and last year the Browns were outscored
by twenty points. They were like the most basic even.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Team in the history of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Forty two touchdowns scored, forty two touchdowns, allowed their running
game average four point seven yards per carry, and then
they also allowed four point seven yards per carry.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Us. Yeah, I mean, they were just basic fifteen years
in a row. It's nuts.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, I mean, at least they're in the plus after
one week now.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Before we get into the series history and the offense
and defense for the Browns. Just one other note I
wanted to bring up was the rivalry within the rivalry
TJ Watt versus Miles Garrett. Coming into the twenty twenty
three season, they've been drafted in the same year, tied
for the most career sacks per game all time at
point eight nine and what leads the NFL the seventy
seven and a half sacks since entering the league in
twenty seventeen. What is also first in quarterback hits and
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forced fumbles during that time. Watt and Garrett combined for
four sacks in Week one three by Watt. He also
forced two fumbles and recovered one. So it's just amazing
to see in this rivalry between these two great teams,
this rivalry at that position kind of emerging and being
consistent year after year.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Who are the best? I mean almost a sack of
game for both of them.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Nuts.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
And what's bonkers though, is, as people know, especially last year,
TJ missed a lot of games and still nobody's outsacked
him since he came in the league, including Garrett. I mean,
it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
The Steelers and Browns have met one hundred and forty
three times dating back to nineteen fifty. Of those one
hundred and forty three matchups, only three have been in
the postseason. Pittsburgh is two to one in the playoffs
against the Browns. Overall, this series sits at eighty sixty
two and one. To begin the series, Cleveland ripped off
an eight game winning streak, won twelve of the first
thirteen contests and only had two losses out of the
first eighteen times they met, and then that was pretty
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much it for the Browns success.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
In nineteen sixty two, the time started to change.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
The Browns won four games between that point in nineteen
eighty three and then even more extreme in nineteen ninety four,
Pittsburgh won forty two of the next fifty games, with
the tie thrown in during that time. So you want
to talk about big brother versus Little Brother syndrome, this
rivalry pretty much defines that it does.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And the one thing I mean, I know this is
ancient history, but the Browns were one of the best
organizations of league pre Super Bowl and when the Steelers
were just dismal. But since the Super Bowl era it
hasn't been close.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I'm taking a look at the Browns offensively. I think
it obviously starts with Nick Chubb. I mean he's the
catalyst for the offense, and that's where we should start
because I think stopping him is key for Pittsburgh. So
much easier said than done now too, though not with
the injuries to the Pittsburgh's off our defensive line.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, I mean the Hayward thing is a real problem. Obviously.
I'm really excited about Benton. I'm hoping this opens the
door for him to become a Yeah real.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
He played well too against the good tape that he
put out there. Yeah, he worked that center quite a
bit late in that game. I think it went unnoticed
because it was just so out of hand, but he did.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I actually wrote an article of players that didn't stink
in that game not named TJ. Watt, and Benton was
like the Toppo list.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
All right, let's put into perspective how good Chubb is.
Throughout NFL history, there are only one hundred and twenty
nine instances of a running back averaging five or more
yards per carry with at least one hundred and ninety carries.
Here are the only runners with more than three such
seasons in their career. Chubb, Who's five for five, so five,
He's He's literally perfect right now. Jim Brown had did
it nine times, Barry Good Yeah, Barry Sanders did it
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ten times. Probably would have done it more if he
just decided to play a little bit longer.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Jamal Charles did it eleven times. Fantasy Darling, Jamal Charles.
No surprise to see him there.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Chubb has never finished worse than eighth in the league
in yards per cary per attempt amongst running backs since
his rookie year. Over the twenty twenty one and twenty
twenty two seasons, Nick Chubb gained at least ten yards
on sixteen point six percent of his rushing attempts. He
has also gained twenty or more yards on four point
seven percent of his rushes. Both are the best in
the league over that time, and since twenty eighteen, Chubb
ranks second in rushing yards as well as rushing touchdowns.
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I'm sure you can put together who he might rank
second behind.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
In both of those categories.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
If it wasn't for another generational running back rumbling through
the NFL in Tennessee during the same kind of timeline.
Chubb would be something that you have never seen before.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah. Absolutely. I mean he's Eric Dickerson, He's you know,
Walter Payton. I mean, those guys aren't featured as much
as they were when I was a kid. But he's
the best ball carrier on the planet right now. I
mean maybe McCaffrey's the better football player they got last week.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Great, but hot start for that position.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, just like the edge guys are going to see now,
they get Josh Jacobs next week and Max Crosby.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
It really does not stop right six best rushing offensive
football last year for the Browns day of the second
most yards of Week one via the ground, and Chubb,
like we said, is the identity they don't have Cream Hunt.
Jerome Ford is the first one to get a crack
at the backup spot. Last week, Chub ran for one
hundred and six yards. He caught four passes, the most
of any Browns player. However, Chubb and Ford were each
in the game for thirty four percent of Cleveland's pass plays,
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but Chubb was the only running back that earned a
target against the Bengals, and that's pretty is because he's
been held under thirty catches in two hundred and forty
receiving yards every year that Kevin Stefanski has this has
been there. He averages just a little over thirty targets
per game since entering the league. So he's not really
a weapon in the passing. That's kind of what Kareem
Hunt's bag was when they had him. There is Jerome
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Ford not that kind of player either. Ubbard above him
in that aspect.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I think Tubble catch more passes than ever because the
number two guys so far behind.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Him were It's a clear one.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, but he's a dump off guy. I mean, he's
not a route runner. So what's amazing about the Chubb
numbers two is he's really not been a huge snapcount
guy over his career, you know, I mean in terms
of if he's not out there eighty percent of the snap.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Fifty three pots just a little over half the time.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
That's got to change this year. It did.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
It did Week one against Cincinnati against Cincinnati when Jerome
Ford was on the field thirty four percent of the time,
so I was Nick Chubb.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So it's not like they were really splitting that much duty.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
No, no, I mean he's going to be the clear
on the boy. I mean, his career is remarkable.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And as that game went on a little later, you
looked the box score, eighteen carries for Chub, fifteen for four.
You don't want to really wear down Chub that badly
late when you're already in control.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
The game was petty much in hand. I mean what
they did the Cincinnati's defense was or offense was ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
The biggest wild card for Cleveland, I think a lot
of the main reason why people had them either maybe
winning the division as a dark horse or finishing dead
last is Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
He played okay last week.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
He threwn out awful interception, I mean, just one of
the worst ones I saw in Week one, but he
had a nice rushing touchdown forty eight yards on the ground.
And in Watson's six games last year, he averaged twenty
nine point two rushing yards per game, So that's still
an aspect of his game that you kind of got
to keep an eye on. Thirty yards per game. Oh yeah,
forty eight last week again Cincinnati. In the touchdown, he'll
get a big first down with his feet if he
hasked to.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
No question, And they even did some things in the
first week where didn't even have a running back on
the field, like maybe three tight ends two receivers or
two tight ends three receivers and still ran the ball.
You know, treated him like it doesn't mean that they're
not going to run out of those situations.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Last year, Watson was just awful to the Browns offense.
They generated just one point two to two points per drive,
which was thirtieth during the time frame when Watson took
over to the end of the season last year in
the NFL. Over his six games last year for the Browns,
he also completed a career low fifty eight point two
percent of his passes. Career low marks and yards per
pass attempt, yards per completion, and touchdown rate as well.
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His interception rate was the highest that Watson had since
he was a rookie in the league, but in his
three full seasons he's never dipped below four four hundred
passing yards. He has an eighty nine to twenty nine
TDed interception ratio in his last full year eight hundred yards,
thirty three touchdowns, seven interceptions. You can see why the
Browns are so enticed and why this guy keeps getting
chance after chance.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
No doubt. I mean when he at his peak, which
was a long time ago. If you wun't realize, he
had a seven hundred day layoff between playing with his
suspension and holding out and all this stuff that went on,
but he was knocking on the door as a top
three type quarterback. Last we saw him and he Houston,
which again was like, I don't know, a thousand days
ago something like that. But since he's been a Brown,
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he's been pretty terrible.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, and he looked okay, okay one but to me,
it kind of looked more like a quarterback that had
an offseason to get comfortable in the offense and he
wasn't going to make a huge mistake.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Even though the interception was terrible.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
He's gonna be able to manage that offense better than
he was when he just dropped in from the clouds
last year.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And that is asking a lot. I mean, like, if
you're a Watson apologist, and frankly, there's not a lot
of them out there, not here, I mean, they will
tell you, well, he had an insane layoff, and if
you're suspended. You're not even in the meeting rooms or
practical or anything.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You just show up and like being injured.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
No, it's not like being injured. And they he played
in really bad weather and against really good defenses when
he got back exactly, but it was still.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Awful and in the prime of the season where teams
are tuned up. I mean they had three months to
get themselves in a year they ranked the playoff push. Now, yeah,
it was a tough sort was stapped against him, But
I kind of like that the deck was stacked against him,
not him. Yeah, what about his target Samari Cooper obviously
had the high target chair a last year twenty six
point one percent of the targets. He's a twenty six
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point one percent target chair and every route running his career,
so that's pretty much par for the course for Cooper.
He was target one hundred and thirty two times. That's
career high for him. His nine touchdowns were also a
career high, So very sneaky career year last year for
one of the better receivers.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Jacoby Brissett, though, was his bread and butter. He averaged
point six four touchdowns per game with him. That was
pretty much cut in half with Watson to zero point
three to three touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Offense was much better with Persett than Watson.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, I mean, if you were looking to make the
playoffs last year, the move was to probably just keep
per set going.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You spot out.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, what about the other guys though, Donovan Peoples Jones
and Elijah Cooper Peoples Jones had a seven game streak
of producing fifty receiving yards last year, but trying to
notice the trend here under forty five receiving yards and
six of the final seven games. There's a bit of
a change at the quarterback position. The fell off and
Elijah Moore. I think that was a pretty I like
more good addition, but also in addition they had to
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make because if it wasn't for that, Cooper and People's
would have been on an island out there.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
There would have been no one else in the receiving game.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Very true, And I like Amari Cooper, but he has
crazy home road splits over his career too, really really
bad player on the road compared to home all through
his career, which is odd.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Now, David and Joku, no tight end last year had
more red zone targets other than someone named Travis Kelcey
among NFL tight ends and amongst all tight ends, and
Joko finished eighth in both receptions per game and receiving
yards per game.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Djoko, to me, is just kind of that guy that
you've been waiting to break.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Out because he's got all the tools to be a
Kelsey and Andrews, and he's just never put it together.
But he The thing that scares me about him every
time the Steelers play the Browns is he can do
that against any given team, and he does it at
least once or twice a season. So like maybe you
spin the Roulette wheel and the ball lands in you're
a spot where and Djoko goes for one hundred yards
and he catches two red zone touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And I think it the Roulett wheel hits last year.
Every year it hits a little bit more. So he's
getting it.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Started to get better each three times than four times.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
He's always been a flash player, but he's flashing a
little more war lately. And they gave him money, so
don't sell him short.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
No, and they believe it.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and tight ends, as we always say,
bloom late. So one last note on the offense before
he flipped to the defense. Jack Coughlin injury pretty good
news for the Steelers. You don't want to watch injury
on anybody, but you'll take it if it happens. HeiG
Smith had four sacks last year against the Browns in
one of their meetings. Watt had four sacks in Big
Ben's heinz Field finale against the Browns a couple of
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years ago against Baker Mayfield put him right back and
remember people were kind of cooling off on he's going
to break straight hands record. Then he had four sacks
against the Browns. Oh okay, might break Trey Hands record.
Overall last year, the Steelers sacked the Browns nine times
between two games. So an injury to the Browns offensive line,
which is pretty damn good. I think the Steelers will
take that.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So Dale and I just recorded an episode of The
Drive and he found this out too, which I didn't know.
For his career, what averages a sack and a half
per game against Dominate Cleveland against the Browns Dominates to Cleveland.
I mean, that's a huge number.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Brown's defense.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Just like Chubb being the man on offense, there's clearly
one man on defense that stands above the rest Miles Garrett.
That might be a bit of an understatement though, Matt,
because in the context of the Browns pass rush, he's
never had a teammate reach double digit sacks. Zadaria Smith
has accomplished this in three of the past four seasons,
So the Brown's trying to go outside of the organization
bring someone in. Garrett was the most double teamed edge
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rusher in the league last year at a three point
thirteen percent rate, and garrett sixteen sacks accounted for forty
seven percent of the Browns team sack production. Tavian Bryant
last year was second on the team with just three sacks.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So they three sacks sixteen to three.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Right, he had like half their sacks, as you just mentioned.
So what they do. They went and got a conquo
from Houston. They've got Zadarius, got some established guys, they
drafted a couple of dudes, and they got Tomlinson on
the inside. So I mean it was really Miles Garrett
and the Pips. I mean, there was nothing else around
and no wonder he gets doubled like crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Not the case this year.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
In terms of position groups, it's one of the most
improved in the.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
League, and it also has a new league and Jim Schwartz,
who's a very accomplished defensive coordinator in the NFL, and
he used Garrett a little uniquely. Against Cincinnati, Garrett lined
as an off ball linebacker for four snaps. Those four
snaps resulted in a sack in three incomplete passes. Until
this year, Garrett has aligned off the ball just twenty
one times, so four times in just one game last week,
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twenty one previously in six seasons. Garrett has also dropped
into coverage in the game against Cincinnati on several occasions
as well. So they're using some different and you know what,
when a defensive coordinator like Jim Schwartz comes in, why
wouldn't you, you know, take the thoroughbred out of the
barn for a little bit and run him around a
little bit uniquely if you can.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, I mean Garrett.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Who's to say Garrett can't cover real quick. He's fast,
he's a freak. He's long as hell.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
You don't expect it, you know, you roll your coverages
that way and he doesn't come all of a sudden.
You're waisting blockers, you know, things like that. So and
those other guys I mentioned are good enough pass rushers,
he could do it once in a while.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Now, One thing about the twenty twenty two Rowns defense.
They started well average of two point three points per
first quarter of games. That was the best in the league.
But they were nineteenth best in the second quarters and
twenty sixth in the third and fourth quarters. So they
faded fast.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Beat up, yeah, because they didn't stop the run well,
they did worn down and worn down and worn down. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
One hundred and thirty nine yep, one hundred and thirty
five yards per game on the ground.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Last year.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
They did have a great passing defense though, fifth in
net passing yards allowed and fourth and completion percentage allowed
one hundred and ninety six point two passing yards per
game allowed last season. Only four defenses were better. So
Garrett can rush the passer and they have really good
options in the second area.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
They did wards a good player. Knew some' is a
good player. They played really well last week.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
But they can't stop and O's belied. Like we said.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
They also allowed twenty two rushing touchdowns last year, which
was the third most in the NFL. I know, we
just talked about how they went out and they improved
that defense, but still probably the.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Way to go at them.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I think, so attack them on the ground more so
than the Steelers did against the Niners, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, I meany ten carries or whatever isn't going to
cut in. I mean, I think we know that the
Steeler run pass ratio has to get much closer to
fifty to fifty and both probably it's runs all better
in this game, will probably win.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
No steerst fans will want to use the middle of
the field a lot more. Is it's a better opponent
in your opinion to do that.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Last year, everybody's a better opponent than the Niners. So
has a loaded question that I think got you. But
the Browns were still pretty good at defending the middle
of field last year. Teams didn't even mess with it.
Eighteen percent of the throws were between the numbers last
year against the Browns. Only the Jets saw less than that.
They first Burrow last week to throw seventy one percent
of his passes outside the numbers two, which is the
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most in his career, and he did not play well.
He had one of the worst performances I could ever
imagine Burrow having. He averaged under two yards per throw
on the passes outside the numbers.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Their numbers across the board. Cincinnati's offense were rare. I mean, like,
I think their longest completion was twelve yards. I mean
they threw to t Haagens eight times. He got zero
of them. I mean, like this stuff you.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Don't see now.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Also, in addition to adding guys like Zadaria Smith and
coonk Wo that can help in the pass rush, they
blitzed thirty eight percent of Joe Burrow's dropbacks, and on
those instances, Burrow was two for eleven for sixteen yards.
Burt was only blitzed sixteen percent of his dropbacks last
year in the NFL. So Schwartz came in and obviously
was grinding that table a little bit longer than some
other teams because it's their first opponent. He was like,
why is no one blitzing this guy? I'm going to
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throw the kitchen sink at him. Thirty eight percent blitz
rate is pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Like lowest in the league. And then they was opposite. Now,
is that going to be a Schwartz thing or is
that a.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Burrow Borough specific match up?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I mean, I thought it was noteworthy though, I.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Will say this, though we might not find out if
that's a Schwartz thing or a matchup specific thing, even
this week, because I think the matchup this week would
tell him to blitz Kenny pick it is.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I would assume he's got in quarterback. You're gonna want
to hite him, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, here's one stat that Steelers fans are going to
hate before we get to key matchups and wrap up here.
Browns forced to three and out on thirty six percent
of their drives last year. That was seventh best in
the NFL. Don't want to have PTSD flashbacks if not
converted the going and having three and outs to start
the game. Browns are pretty goodt getting off the field
in three.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Plays, absolutely, and they were great at it last week too.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Key matchups should not be any surprise to anybody listening
out there. Brown's running back Nick Chubb versus the Steelers linebackers.
Steeers linebackers were tortured last week by the master at
torturing inside linebackers, Kyle Shanahan and Christian McCaffrey's also the
master at doing that on the field. It gets no
easier this week with Nick Chubb.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
No it doesn't. It's a much different challenge in terms
of what they throw at you with Deebo Crossers and
the running back receiving skills. But now it's gotta be
b gap sound, get Chubb on the ground, don't let
him free, more traditional run fits.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And I'm sure you could put this together too.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
On offense, the Steelers pass protection has to hold up
against Brown's defensive end Miles Garrett. Last week they got
Nick Bosa. Nick Bosa was pretty quiet, but Drake Jackson
was not. This week maybe, yep, exactly, So you got
to also keep an eye out for that. You want
to key on Miles Garrett, but keeping out for Darius
Smith and other guys that could you know, ruin your
day as well.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Now, I mean, as you mentioned earlier, which was great,
was well, if you shut down Garrett last year, their
second leading sacker at.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Three sacks or whatever, you're not the cases here.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
There's no high Smith and now they have those guys,
so it's much different.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Matt.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I will be back again next week to break down
the Steelers and Raiders matchup in Week three, but Monday
Night football has to come first. Steelers and Browns at
Akroshuer Stadium. Kickoff is at eight fifteen Monday night for
Matt Williamson on Tom Opperman.
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