The Pittsburgh Steelers had a plan against Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry, and the Baltimore Ravens. They didn’t always execute that plan to its fullest effect—but the plan itself also didn’t work as intended. Indeed, suggests Ravens DE Kyle Van Noy, what the Steelers wanted to do in setting up Lamar Jackson quite possibly may have backfired and had the opposite effect.
“The Steelers’ defense, they were like, ‘We want to get Lamar [Jackson] to run the ball. We want to see if he can last the football game running the ball and throwing the ball. Let’s see if we can take Derrick Henry out’”, he said on the McCoy and Van Noy podcast.