Hey everyone, it's Wednesday here on the Lockdown Steelers podcast. I'm your host Chris Carter. Today we're going to talk about the Steelers lack of passing in the middle part of the field because another Steelers insider brought up recently about how, yeah, Mike Tomlin made it clear. They're doing that to protect against turnovers. And a lot of people think that's the thing that held the Steelers offense back. Numbers show a different story when you look at other teams that did it like

the Steelers did, just did it better. I want to talk about that and how the Steelers offense can

move forward and make improvements next season. All that and taking your questions on the

Locked on Steelers hotline. Let's get into it.

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Let's talk about this Steelers' offense.

Now, I want to start with this and pointing to this because this has been a sore spot for a lot of people for a while and how the Steelers don't attack the middle part of the field.

And they really haven't as much since the retirement of Ben Rothersberger.

It's been something they've avoided a lot. And statistically, there are things to back that up.

And the reason this kind of kicked up a storm and why I wanted to focus on it was because of something another Steelers insider said.

And then how it was extrapolated and turned into this much bigger thing than it actually is.

Now, Mark Caboli brought this up on 9 to 3.7.

The fan, you know Mark Caboli.

He's with the Pat McAfee show.

We've had it on this show multiple times, but he brought this up on Tuesday and said this. Mike Thomas been very

transparent with not targeting the middle part of the field. He says when you throw the ball

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