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Welcome to the terrible take, a daily segment telling Steelers nation what's on our mind.

I'm Alex Kizora.

Big picture Take Today, reflecting on the year that was the

2022 NFL season as it begins to wrap up now down to just the final four. Call

2022 the year of the quarterback sneak in Pittsburgh and across the league.

The Philadelphia Eagles are the pioneers with the pusher technique using one, two, sometimes three players to jam the quarterback ahead of the sticks.

It's an idea adopted by most of the league, including the Steelers who used a one-man

pusher several times this season.

But what's just as interesting are the variations of it, the quarterback sneak constraint plays,

a phrase I never thought I'd speak. The Eagles were again the Kings and showed it this weekend against

the Giants lining up like they were going to push hurts ahead before running a toss off of it

for a first down and plenty more. We've seen that before in fact Philly used a similar

design against the Steelers in week 8. How do you defend any of that? I just don't know.

Stopping the pusher technique seems impossible.

Short of a bad exchange, that's just a numbers game a defense will seemingly lose every time.

And then you have to think about and stop the plays built off at the perimeter runs and tosses when you're so keyed in on the sneak man

Good luck to every defense in football

Of course, sneaks are a niche play used only a couple times a game if that, but they're back in Pittsburgh. Can he pick it able to do what Ben Roffesberger could no longer do? And Sneaks are now a designed and schemed up play, not just the

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