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A deep dive into the Packers defensive run vs. Steelers

    Camper
    By Camper


    The Green Bay Packers battled back in the second half of the Week 8 game versus the Pittsburgh Steelers after being down 167 at held the Pittsburgh offense to nine secondhalf points while the Packers offense scored on each possession of the 2nd the end, the defense held their former quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, and the Steelers offense to just 0 on third down conversions, allowing the defense to ultimately dictate the pace of the 2nd sacked Rodgers five times, including a strip sack and recovery by the defense, and broke up five more also only gave three explosive pass plays, though one at the end of the game was inconsequential as the score was already , this felt like a much better version of the defense we saw early on in the biggest change on defense the week leading up to the game was the benching of Nate Hobbs for Carrington had a pass breakup in the end zone on DK Metcalf and allowed three catches for 31 yards with one of them being the garbage time that https://www.gbpackersoutfit.com/packers-hoodies, Valentine surrendered just two catches for 10 yards and earned the thirdhighest defensive grade on the team for the game per Pro Football defense only surrendered three points in the third quarter, which allowed the offense to cut into the lead, and by the 4th quarter, the score was 1914 the first play of the 4th quarter for the Steelers, a 1st and 10, Micah Parsons' sack turned the tide of the game for Green Steelers aligned in a 12 personnel formation YY formation before motioning a tight end over to the left to make it a balanced 're running a playaction dig concept from under Packers are in cover3, showing 2deep safeties presnap before the motion and rotating late in the presnap to a cover3 was forced to hold onto the ball as nothing was open downfield on the coverage took both the primary and secondary reads away and when he tried to find his checkdown, Parsons was splitting a doubleteam block into the backfield, forcing Rodgers to eat the sack and 10yard the next drive, with the Steelers facing 3rd and 17 https://www.gbpackersoutfit.com/green-bay-packers-darian-kinnard-jersey, Rashan Gary came away with a play was set up by a 2nd down holding penalty that pushed the Steelers back 10 no choice but to pass, the Packers shifted around their front on the Steelers to create confusion as Rodgers dropped defense is playing a standard cover2 alignment here on 3rdand17 with the zones a bit deeper than a traditional had nowhere to go with the pass and tried to buy time to escape but as soon as he moved forward up in the pocket, Rashan Gary came from the side to sack himThe defense sacked Rodgers one other came early in the game on the Steelers' first drive, also by the pressure was created initially by Parsons, whose interior rush from an offtheball linebacker position shot him through the line, forcing Rodgers to step alignment is becoming a normal addition to the defensive call sheet in recent weeks, taking Parsons and aligning him off the ball with plenty of movement to confuse the offensive line and cause them to panic a alignment actually set up the sack Parsons aligned off the ball behind the defensive tackle, the offensive line naturally slides their protection to account for doesn't change his rush lane, he rushes right at the right guard in the Bgap with the right tackle 1on1 with easily dips by the blocker into the pressure forces Rodgers to step up where he ends up running into a sack by defense also recorded five pass breakups on Rodgers as most notable being a Carrington Valentine deflection in the end zone on a deep shot down the left sideline from Rodgers to DK and Metcalf are aligned at the bottom of the defense is playing cover1 across the board Metcalf is outside of the numbers and inside the ivider, closer to the bottom of the numbers Valentine will funnel him inside by playing trail technique, low and outside with the safety help outside the jumps outside and low as Metcalf releases looked to the right at the route concepts but nothing was available to him to take a shot on so he reset and looked to Metcalf on the left 1on1 with read the leverage and threw the ball inside to Metcalf but as the pass approached Brandon McManus Jersey, Valentine reached over and knocked it away as it hit Metcalf's hands.I'll leave you with Rodgers's reaction to it.