Bryan Broaddus looks at what the Steelers have done on the defensive side of the ball during the first four weeks of the season to get an idea of what the Cowboys will be up against when they face Pittsburgh this Sunday.
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00:00What if I told you that teams just kind of run the ball at T.J. Watt with some success?
00:06Sounds about right.
00:07You should do it.
00:08Yeah, him.
00:09Try and neutralize him.
00:10Well, the player that they're going to miss in this game is Alex Highsmith.
00:15Sure.
00:16They're going to miss Highsmith.
00:17Because he takes pressure off the other side, and he's a good player too.
00:19He is a really good player.
00:21And if you talk about guys who can play the run and rush the pass, the Steelers are built.
00:28The Cowboys are built really to, you know, this is the third game the Cowboys are going
00:32to play against an AFC North team, and the one thing, the one thread, is they've all
00:37got good fronts.
00:39They really are.
00:40Their defensive fronts are all pretty good.
00:42Yeah, because they got guys that are tough to move off the ball.
00:44Like you talked about that with Baltimore, but Benton, the Wisconsin guy.
00:48Keanu Benton is, yeah, Keanu Benton is a really good player.
00:50And then Cam Hayward has been doing it for decades, feels like.
00:53This is where, this is where you actually might have a matchup win, and when I talk
00:58about with Cam Hayward, because he is going to line up the majority of the time over Tyler
01:04Smith.
01:05Terrible.
01:06Okay.
01:07It's a good matchup to circle.
01:08Yeah.
01:09So Cam Hayward is, when it comes to pressure from tackles, he's one of the better ones.
01:16But you're lining up against a guy that doesn't give up pressures.
01:20So that's something you can look forward to in this game.
01:23The one thing that they've yet to show is T.J. Watt is not going to move over to the
01:28right side.
01:29Okay, so they're not moving him.
01:30Is he stationary now?
01:31They're not moving him.
01:32No.
01:33Pretty stationary.
01:34Is that only when Highsmith plays, or even if Highsmith is out?
01:37It doesn't matter.
01:38Wow.
01:39Highsmith or Herbick, they leave him over on the offense's right side.
01:47Terrence Steele, have a day.
01:48Yeah.
01:50Terrence Steele.
01:51Teams have done a good job of chipping this guy, and I mentioned running the ball at him.
01:56These edges, when people have tossed the ball to the outside or got the ball to the edge,
02:01and they put big bodies over there, they mash on these guys a little bit.
02:06I mean, they-
02:07They run on them.
02:09They run on them because they can't hold up on the blocks.
02:14Can't get off the blocks like they need to.
02:16I mean, there were several times the Chargers just said, okay, we're going to run it over
02:20here, and you're just not going to be able to stop us from running it.
02:22Do you think the Cowboys can do that and stay in blocks and find a way to get success running
02:27the ball?
02:28It's going to be, to me, I think it's an easier task to run the ball on these edges than it
02:36is to try and run it inside.