Few teams are as familiar with each other than the Ravens and the Steelers, who are set for a third matchup in two months on Saturday. Todd Monken needs to approach this game like a chess match, drawing on the teams’ first two meetings to predict what the Steelers will do this week.
Pittsburgh knows what Baltimore wants to do: run the ball out of heavy formations to opening up receiving mismatches against base personnel. The Steelers, in turn, will move Minkah Fitzpatrick into the box and run single-high safety shells with frequent man blitzes. They ran single-high safety shells ~80% of the time across the first two matchups, including a 56.