Say what you want about the way the scuffle was officiated between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers, but they would have never been in that situation had Darnell Washington played it a little safer. His block drove Darius Slay all the way to the back wall behind the end zone after the whistle was blown. The physicality was great, but at what cost?
In this case, it likely cost the Steelers four points and the chance at a brief lead because of the ensuing unnecessary roughness penalties.
“The biggest thing that bothers me in that play is, regardless of what happened after that, we gotta be smarter,” OC Arthur Smith said Wednesday during his weekly coordinator media availability via TribLive’s Chris Adamski on X.