[News] What You Missed At Steelers

[Joey Flac]

I'm not knocking Brandon Williams, he's no Ngata, but he is a beast. However, the gif in this article of him getting through the line is a designed screen play... which is why they LET him through the line. Notice the Steeler linemen peeling off to pick up blocks down field... The tag line "I swear there's a play like this every week" is an honest one, because screen plays are common place in the NFL every team has at least one... Football basics man, our writers need more of them...

 

He's a Ngata for sure... Top graded player by PFF, guy is becoming the tone of the defense because he plays so hard every play and, like CJ Mosley, he is in on almost every run tackle when the pile clears. He blew up the screen by getting in the backfield so quickly and bunched everyone up, I think the lineman decided he had to block him cause if they disengaged off the snap Vick may of been planted for a sack fumble. Thats the only thing that busts a screen, a defender committing and not reacting. 

[Joey Flac]

I rewatched the game the other day and i replayed the trap run 5 times, where Hurst crashed the middle and Yanda pulled and materialized #51 into particles with that hit... I saw #73 rounding the corner with just a linebacker standing in a canalley of a hole and said to myself, "Oh no...." I felt bad for that steeler for a second..

[ftballfan]

I was at the game. That picture of the stadium is very misleading. Just for the sake of accuracy (fwiw), that picture was taken at the very start of the overtime period while most of the people were not back in their seats yet. It's also a picture of the 'club' section where those fans have the option to watch from inside. Ever see the stands at M&T at the very beginning of the 3rd period? (I have, for 15 years) The stands are half empty, until everybody files back in. Same thing here. I can assure you that the stadium was packed, just to have Tucker send them all home.