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Scout's Eye with Matt Williamson: Got weapons, get sacks!

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4.8778 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Matt looks at the PFF edge rusher rankings and with the best defensive front in the league, the Steelers really should have more sacks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Visit sonus.com and bring the power of stadium sound home. Hello everyone. I'm Matt Williamson, at Williamson NFL. As I've been telling

0:35.4

you, I will probably be at minicamp when you're

0:37.8

listening to this. I'm recording it on Memorial Day. Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day. I got a lot of

0:43.0

stuff going on. I just want to knock this out quick, probably just a five, ten or ten minute

0:47.2

conversation today. But I am excited to get down to minicamp, see these rookies in particular body types, as I've mentioned.

0:59.0

And you're not going to get sick of it, but I'm going to come back to a time and time again that I think you guys that have listened know that my two big goals are increasing yards per carry

1:06.2

for the Steelers from last year up to like the 4-2-4-3 range, and frankly, leading the league in sacks.

1:13.9

And we're going to stress the second part of that today.

1:16.9

I mean, sack differential is a real strong component to winning teams.

1:25.9

And their sack differential was minus nine, which means Steelers'

1:32.7

Sack, Steelers' quarterbacks are sacked nine more times than they produced. And a lot of that

1:38.5

I'll tell you is on the quarterbacks. We've talked about that before. But that's only better

1:42.4

than six teams, minus nine, and they're all bad

1:45.0

teams. You know, that's not going to cut it. So again, I'm stressing the defensive side of

1:50.8

things today. They ended up with a sack percentage, percentage of dropbacks that end up in a

1:59.8

Steelers defensive sack,

2:02.4

6.3%.

2:04.2

That's 18th.

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