In case you may have been wondering how the Pittsburgh Steelers defense is adjusting to some of the new schematic alterations that have been installed over the course of the offseason, the team’s slate of preseason games has revealed the answer to that question to be, at best, a work in progress.
Especially difficult to adapt has been the implementation of the Cover 2 zone coverage, which uses two high safeties to cover deep halves of the field and demands much of its inside linebackers not only to cover a lot of ground but to quickly diagnose the play as run or pass.