The Steelers know the Browns are going to be loading the box to stop the run.

They're the best in the NFL at doing it.

So how do the Steelers counter that?

We talk about that here on the Locked on Steelers podcast.

I'm your host, Chris Carter, here today with Shelby Cassidy.

Let's get into it.

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Right now, New Customers, Cabetches just $5. And if your bet wins, you'll get $300 and bonus bets to use all across the Fandul's sportsbook app. More on them later. As I said before, we're joined by Shelby Cassese. You know we're in lover at Channel 11. Shelby, like Tomlin talked Tuesday, the bye week's over, but there's getting a sense of now getting ready for the Browns. This is not the cupcake walk that I think that a lot of people, at least the Steelers aren't talking about it, like a cupcake walk, like a lot of people think when they think of the Cleveland Browns. Yeah, hey, Chris, and I mean, that's exactly what you want to see the Steelers mindset be right now. You don't want them to think it's going to be a cakewalk. And I mean, I think that's, it's reasonable to assume it's not going to be because divisional games are always not a cakewalk, especially in the AFC North. And even though the divisions amess right now, the Steelers have a great opportunity. These games are always tight and they're always one in the trenches.

Absolutely.

And the trenches is where the Browns put a lot of investment.

I asked Mike Tomlin because when I was doing my research on the Browns and personnel usage,

sports information system charts the Browns to use one high safety shells as far as,

you know, putting only one safety back instead of two, the highest rate of anyone in the NFL and two high safety shells, the lowest rate.

And as far as stacking the boxes, they stack the box the third highest rate in the NFL.

Point being, they are going to throw everything at stuffing the run and that's worked out so far because they're allowing the fewest yards and fewest yards per carry going into this week. When I asked Mike Tomlin about that, listen to how he answers that question. And then also the follow-up on the Steelers' usage of tight ends and how and why he uses them. Here was Mike Tomlin on Tuesday. The Browns are allowed in the fewest yards on the ground. They run a lot of one-hot shelves and stack the box a lot. What do you guys have to do after having your best run game yet this season when you guys were in Ireland? Well, we better block them, you know. We better run hard. We better finish off runs. We better have a finisher's attitude in terms of which direction

of power falls. As you mentioned, they're elite in terms of run stopping. And so what does that mean?

That means that we got to be solid. We can't have unblocked people. But beyond that,

we got to play well as a collective.

We got to play physical and we got to finish.

But we got to understand that, you know, a successful day might be three and four-yard

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