Having the weekend to digest the Pittsburgh Steelers’ biggest defensive problem, miscommunication, I’m collecting my thoughts to try and figure out why the defense is struggling so much. Up front, determining these things is difficult. Figuring out what and who went wrong on a coverage bust is tough to do from the outside without knowing the playbook, checks, signals, etc. It’s much easier to explain things when it all goes well.
And admittedly, topics like these are in literal search of answers, trying to make sense of messy and broken plays. But after studying the main coverage busts and big gains/touchdowns the Steelers have allowed the last two weeks against the Baltimore Ravens and Kansas City Chiefs.