Steelers' Defense Must Re-Embrace Blitz Identity in 2025 | Where Plans Led to Bad Tendencies in 2024

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🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Pittsburgh Steelers blitzed at the lowest rate by the team over the past six seasons in 2024. Christopher Carter explains why that led to problems and must change in 2025.

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0:00.0	It's Monday here on the Lockdown Steelers podcast.
0:03.9	I'm your host, Chris Carter.
0:04.8	We got to talk about the defense, something I saw in the NFL divisional round of the playoffs that reminded me about something I've been talking about that the Steelers needed to do more this season.
0:13.7	We'll talk about what that is, how that can change a lot of things in 2025 and a lot more here in the Lockdown Steelers podcast.
0:19.4	Let's get into it.
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0:40.9	Hello, welcome to the Lockdown Steelers podcast.
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1:03.9	All right, Steelers fans, welcome back to the week.
1:06.1	It was a crazy weekend in the playoffs. Also, happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Always a special day to remember
1:13.5	one of our great American heroes. But let's talk about these Steelers and this defense. Now,
1:19.5	one thing that I talked about leading into the Steelers game against the Raven that they needed
1:23.1	to do was I thought that they needed to blitz Lamar Jackson a lot.
1:29.8	I thought they needed to blitz him at a higher rate.
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