Just a quick film study that highlights some of the issues we still see in the Pittsburgh Steelers defense. Their Cover 3, primarily spot dropping defense leaves them vulnerable to multiple vertical concepts. We saw this the most glaringly in the loss to the Seattle Seahawks. The night after that game, we did a film room post that broke it down.
To a lesser extent, the Cincinnati Bengals did similar last Sunday. It wasn’t as noticeable with the Steelers winning comfortably, and A.J. McCarron didn’t always find the open target, but it’s a recurring problem.