Wednesday here on the Locked-on Steelers podcast. I'm your host, Chris Carter. We've got Nick Farabaw on. I want to talk about things that Mike Tom and discussed, including the middle of the field passing game, what happened there against the Bears. And the back and forth that you might have seen gone a little while between Mike about the defensive schemes. Talk about that and the injuries that the Steelers got piled up all here on the Locked on Steelers podcast let's get

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There wasn't enough pass in the middle part of the field.

The Steelers never passed in the middle part of the field.

It hasn't been the thing they haven't done since Ben Robertsburg retired. Blah, blah, blah, blah. And I saw that. And I was like, I agreed. In this game, they didn't throw too much to the middle part of the field. but I still think there were some that were classized not middle of the field,

even though like the slant to Pat Bremuth was literally on the hash mark,

which is the middle of the field.

But I, that were classized not middle of the field even though like the slant to pat primuth was literally on the hash mark which is the middle of the field but i i hear that

you know that but that was not the majority of of the passing attack but it seems clear

to me at least the steelers approach there they do limit the middle of the field passing

to limit the chance of turnovers for lesser quarterbacks because my thing is, Nick, when I look at Aaron

Rogers numbers, he is allowed to throw down the middle part of the field. And he does. And in

fact, I think most of his success has come there. Yeah, I mean, I think he's still throwing in the

middle of six percent of points lower than he was last year. So they don't do it a lot. And I think when people talk about middle of the field, everyone thinks it's this box from like 0 to 30. The real area everyone should be focused on is 10 to 20. Dig routes, crossers. They don't target that area of the field very often. But Rogers is allowed to throw scene balls.

He is allowed to throw those. And they do have digs in the backside progressions.

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