Former Pat Comments on Art Rooneys Defensive Scheme

[pittbb80]

Pretty damning comments on Art Rooneys defensive scheme. Poor MM is hamstrung by Art as he’s only responsible for “game prep and game adjustments”.

Retired New England Patriots receiver Julian Edelman tore into the Steelers defensive schemes during a segment of his “Games With Names” show.

Former New England assistant Matt Patricia was on the show earlier this week with the Super Bowl LIII MVP. Edelman began reminiscing about playing the Steelers.

“You knew exactly what they were doing,” Edelman said of facing the Steelers defense under Mike Tomlin. “And they still do what they did. They still do the same (expletive) (expletive) when I was playing Tomlin’s defense. I’m, like, ‘We still have linebackers covering the three slot?’ Every time we play the Steelers, I (would) have at least nine catches. You would think that they would change it. But, no. They do what they do.”

You always knew T.J. Watt was going to line up at left outside linebacker. He was almost never deployed with both Alex Highsmith and Nick Herbig. Minkah Fitzpatrick was locked into the back third of the defense. Despite bolstering the inside linebacker position, their blitz packages with that unit were infrequent and not very creative.

And their defensive game plan against the Baltimore Ravens in the playoffs was comically static.

 

[ChiefJusticeMarshall]

Pretty damning comments on Art Rooneys defensive scheme. Poor MM is hamstrung by Art as he’s only responsible for “game prep and game adjustments”.

Retired New England Patriots receiver Julian Edelman tore into the Steelers defensive schemes during a segment of his “Games With Names” show.

Former New England assistant Matt Patricia was on the show earlier this week with the Super Bowl LIII MVP. Edelman began reminiscing about playing the Steelers.

“You knew exactly what they were doing,” Edelman said of facing the Steelers defense under Mike Tomlin. “And they still do what they did. They still do the same (expletive) (expletive) when I was playing Tomlin’s defense. I’m, like, ‘We still have linebackers covering the three slot?’ Every time we play the Steelers, I (would) have at least nine catches. You would think that they would change it. But, no. They do what they do.”

You always knew T.J. Watt was going to line up at left outside linebacker. He was almost never deployed with both Alex Highsmith and Nick Herbig. Minkah Fitzpatrick was locked into the back third of the defense. Despite bolstering the inside linebacker position, their blitz packages with that unit were infrequent and not very creative.

And their defensive game plan against the Baltimore Ravens in the playoffs was comically static.

Well.....it t'aint Dick Lebeau's defense that's for sure.

 

[pittbb80]

Well.....it t'aint Dick Lebeau's defense that's for sure.

And who hired Dick?

 

[ChiefJusticeMarshall]

And who hired Dick?

And who forced Mike T to retain him??

 

[Franb]

Pretty damning comments on Art Rooneys defensive scheme. Poor MM is hamstrung by Art as he’s only responsible for “game prep and game adjustments”.

Retired New England Patriots receiver Julian Edelman tore into the Steelers defensive schemes during a segment of his “Games With Names” show.

Former New England assistant Matt Patricia was on the show earlier this week with the Super Bowl LIII MVP. Edelman began reminiscing about playing the Steelers.

“You knew exactly what they were doing,” Edelman said of facing the Steelers defense under Mike Tomlin. “And they still do what they did. They still do the same (expletive) (expletive) when I was playing Tomlin’s defense. I’m, like, ‘We still have linebackers covering the three slot?’ Every time we play the Steelers, I (would) have at least nine catches. You would think that they would change it. But, no. They do what they do.”

You always knew T.J. Watt was going to line up at left outside linebacker. He was almost never deployed with both Alex Highsmith and Nick Herbig. Minkah Fitzpatrick was locked into the back third of the defense. Despite bolstering the inside linebacker position, their blitz packages with that unit were infrequent and not very creative.

And their defensive game plan against the Baltimore Ravens in the playoffs was comically static.

Do you really think that Rooney is dictating defense schemes to Tomlin?

 

[Upg bobcat]

You always knew T.J. Watt was going to line up at left outside linebacker. He was almost never deployed with both Alex Highsmith and Nick Herbig.

Don't the three all play OLB, and there are only two OLB positions? If you are going to deploy all 3 at once, one of them is going to be playing out of position. I guess Herbig is undersized, do you put him in more of an ILB spot?

 

[ChiefJusticeMarshall]

Don't the three all play OLB, and there are only two OLB positions? If you are going to deploy all 3 at once, one of them is going to be playing out of position. I guess Herbig is undersized, do you put him in more of an ILB spot?

It's called "creativity". Yeah they do. They are also 3 edge rushers. No rules against having more than 2 in a game.

 

[pittbb80]

Do you really think

 

[pittbb80]

Do you really think that Rooney is dictating defense schemes to Tomlin?

I don’t. But. I’m not the one who’s made that claim. You’d have to direct that question to MMs chief apologist on this Board

 

[Upg bobcat]

It's called "creativity". Yeah they do. They are also 3 edge rushers. No rules against having more than 2 in a game.

It's the NFL. The rules favor the offense and OCs are probably geniuses at identifying and taking advantange of weaknesses. Put someone out of position and they'll probably find a way to exploit it (which goes to Edelman's point about who is covering the inside receiver in a trips formation).

No offense to Edelman, but I don't really put much weight into what he says in terms of coaching up a defense at the NFL level. How many position group meetings has he sat in at the NFL level? I'd be way more interested in hearing what Patricia had to say about the Steelers defense than Edelman.

 

[cease10]

Just my opinion, but I feel that Polamalu hid a lot of deficiencies on the Steelers defense. He was that great of a player.

 

[Richard A]

It’s the same old Steelers nothing changes and won’t until Rooney and Tomlin realize that their way of football is antiquated. The reason the Steelers became a dominant force in the 70’s was because Dan Rooney took over the team from his father and hired Chuck Noll and changed how they operated. Art the second must be more like his father than his grandfather and adjust to modern day football. Otherwise as I have stated before on this board the standard is the standard = mediocrity.

 

[BigChungus90210]

It's refreshing to finally hear people outside the city criticize this guy, even if the detractors are still a large minority. Its taken this long and the guy hasn't been a good coach in what, 13 years?

 

[OH Pete]

Don't the three all play OLB, and there are only two OLB positions? If you are going to deploy all 3 at once, one of them is going to be playing out of position. I guess Herbig is undersized, do you put him in more of an ILB spot?

Depending on the down/distance, you don't need to be held to conventional paradigms. You can just get your 3 best pass rushers out there together. You don't have to rush all 3 either. You can fake one or two and drop them into coverage to cut down on the passing lanes and bring a CB from the outside or an ILB from the inside. Lots of different things can be done. The key is to try to confuse the offense without confusing yourselves. The Steelers D has a tough time with that part.

 

[RaleighPittFan]

Pretty damning comments on Art Rooneys defensive scheme. Poor MM is hamstrung by Art as he’s only responsible for “game prep and game adjustments”.

Retired New England Patriots receiver Julian Edelman tore into the Steelers defensive schemes during a segment of his “Games With Names” show.

Former New England assistant Matt Patricia was on the show earlier this week with the Super Bowl LIII MVP. Edelman began reminiscing about playing the Steelers.

“You knew exactly what they were doing,” Edelman said of facing the Steelers defense under Mike Tomlin. “And they still do what they did. They still do the same (expletive) (expletive) when I was playing Tomlin’s defense. I’m, like, ‘We still have linebackers covering the three slot?’ Every time we play the Steelers, I (would) have at least nine catches. You would think that they would change it. But, no. They do what they do.”

You always knew T.J. Watt was going to line up at left outside linebacker. He was almost never deployed with both Alex Highsmith and Nick Herbig. Minkah Fitzpatrick was locked into the back third of the defense. Despite bolstering the inside linebacker position, their blitz packages with that unit were infrequent and not very creative.

And their defensive game plan against the Baltimore Ravens in the playoffs was comically static.

 

[PittPharm2002]

Turns out - Brady made every defense seem easy to prepare for
Lotta smoke for a guy with 0 TDs against the stillers