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Scout's Eye with Matt Williamson: Special teams advantage

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4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Matt's game prediction, some special teams talk and a deep dive into when the Giants have the football.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. I'm Matt Williamson. How's everyone doing? Good, I hope. He said, we're going to give you an extra pod this week because we've got an extra day to prepare.

0:15.6

I'm going to talk heavily today about when the Giants have the ball. But first, I want to tell you about the Steelers' massive special teams advantage.

0:25.9

I mean, not only they have the far better kicker, but I think you're aware by now.

0:32.0

I mean, they've blocked a kick in three straight games and really should have four over that stretch.

0:45.8

I mean, they have the most punts and kicks blocked since 2022, even going back since 2021.

0:58.0

Massive special teams advantage. The Giants have only returned five kickoffs and I'm sorry, the Giants opponents have only have five kickoffs.

1:01.1

So I would expect more boots into the end zone.

1:06.2

And people are having New York return kicks because they're not very good at it.

1:09.6

And 16 kickoff returns total all year for them, which is a lot.

1:13.1

And Gray, the backup running back,

1:21.1

is their returner. He fumbles quite a bit. You know, that's a problem with him too. And how about this? Returners, there's only been 10 total returns in this season for the Steelers for only 33 yards.

1:27.9

Sears are only given up 33 yards of return yardage this year.

1:31.4

So huge special teams advantage, which is always important.

1:35.9

Now, when New York has a ball, they averaged 2.2 yards for play last week.

1:40.8

Didn't have a play over 13 yards.

1:43.3

They scored 10 total points in the last two weeks.

1:46.2

I mean, really rough. The Dolphins are the only team averaging fewer points per game. Meanwhile,

1:52.2

only the Chargers are allowing fewer points per game than Pittsburgh. New York averages just

1:57.4

1.29 points and 0.13 touchdowns per drive, only better than Miami and Cleveland.

2:04.7

Meanwhile, the Steelers allow 1.4 points and 0.15 touchdowns per drive. Only the Chargers and

2:12.4

Broncos are better. And the Steelers defense allows the second few of scoring plays per game period. Rough,

2:20.1

man. They do use the third highest usage of 10 personnel. So you might see some four

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