Hit the quarterback. Usually a phrase reserved for the pass game. But Pittsburgh took a different approach in Sunday’s loss to Baltimore, attacking the QB over and over again in the run game. They ran “mesh charge” to attack Robert Griffin III, though the success of the idea was ultimately pretty poor.
So what is mesh charge? Here’s the basics of the idea. To defend read option offenses, where the EMOL is unblocked and “read,” designed to be put in a lose-lose situation. If he shuffles down on the back, the QB keeps or throws the ball.