alright Sunday night football this week we got the Pittsburgh
Steelers going out to LA to play the Los Angeles Chargers
should be a good one both teams are deep in this AFC playoff
race in the course is closed in the AFC right now got 12 teams
who all got a chance to still get in don't know where it's
going to go don't know how it's going to play out also got
a lot of guys missing this game because of injuries and covid
and so it is a hard one to call but
I think it'll be exciting none the less it's an interesting
matchup teams that are kind of the opposite and that's always
fun to watch alright so let's go first let's break down
the Pittsburgh Steelers versus the Chargers defense okay this is
where I want to go
inside the number is powered by a w s because the Steelers want
to play offense through Najee Harris right now 80% 86 % of
offensive snaps most by any running back in the NFL s is
D'Andre Swift the Detroit Lions at 72% so he is significantly
the number one ball carrier workload running back in
football it's not even close the other thing Najee Harris
does 58 forced missed tackles that's the most in the NFL why
does he do that one he's big and strong to he's got great
lateral quickness to make
people miss or not quite get a square tackle on them and at
least a him falling forward to getting extra yards after
contact all the time or I want to break away from last week
Pittsburgh Steelers Detroit Lions you see all the people in
the Box
here for the Detroit Lions football team they're expecting
the Run Pittsburgh doesn't care if they're going to run it no
matter what and then a lot of times they give it to him up
the middle and he makes people with us and he weaves in
through and gets a lot of great carries this one here he's
going to get out to the left side and he's going to get
contact and he's in contact again and then it's going to be
a third guy that knocks him out of balance Pittsburgh is
staying patient with the Run they got a good defense right
there passing games not great it's really about hey make
a play ever get
one-on-one coverage other than that hey quarterbacks with his
Mason Rudolph or Ben Roethlisberger just don't make
a mistake let's run the ball control the clock play the game
through our defense it's the right approach by Mike Tomlin
and Company I agree with it totally and this
is where Najee Harris has special he tries to run
the ball up the middle there's nothing really there he bounces
it outside there's a free tackler to Troy line and now
I'm going to hit this guy right in the thigh well let me just
tell you
it didn't slow him down he kind of just ran right through
the tackle and he's going to continue right up the sideline
and that's what makes him special right now you never
really get Negative plays from Najee Harris even when there's
like nothing there you still
come away and go many got two or three yards and 2nd and
seven not that bad and that's what's impressive about him and
the other aspects we got to talk about here is the Chargers
run defense it's horrible it's thinks it's by far the worst in
football in stopping the run and there's no Joey Bosa
there's no Jerry Tillery starting defensive tackle
starting defensive end for are already lackluster run-stopping
defense of life that concerns me and this last frame I just
got to show you how it because the guy like listen I didn't
die you enough coming out in the
draft I was wrong about this guy but you saw one tackle
Libro now there's Jalen reeves-maybin who's a pretty
thumping middle linebacker he runs him over you can see him
on the ground right here and now he's going to DB coming to
hit them and yeah
they knock them out of bounds but they do not come out right
there he gets knocked out like up here he still gets another
few yards after he gets hit by two players that's the thing to
watch out for this game watch out for in this game and
I would expect weather is Ben Roethlisberger or Mason Rudolph
again Steelers they want to Pound The Rock Run the football
behind
this guy he's an awesome football player and like I said
that Chargers run defense has major issues watch out for that
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