Film room on a narrow but important change to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ game plan in Sunday’s win over the Cincinnati Bengals. One that really shows how much smarter the team has gotten under OC Arthur Smith.
To summarize before going through the tape, the Steelers had previously shown a bad habit of running into the teeth of the Bengals’ run fronts.
As we’ve noted many times before including in our scouting report prior to Week 13’s game, Cincinnati likes to use a five defensive lineman front on 1st and 10 to stop the run. In the past, Pittsburgh would willingly run into it, often for little yardage.