Kinda my initial point. It's hard to run nostalgic looks against modern offenses. Kinda like on paper you should be able to spend money and picks on all star lineman, all pro running backs. Play a really good fullback and pay very little on a Q. Just run over these thinned out dline and skinny linebackers. We'll Im sure someone paid a lot more then me has also thought about that.
If they go 5 wide then you blitz them out of it. I have more faith in our starting ILBS then I do our 4th or 5th CB. 5 wide, you send 6, someone is getting there real quickly.
Watt is listed at 252 and Highsmith 242. The Steelers use players' rookie weights. Just looking at both guys now, they have to weigh at least 260-265 lbs. Watt's arms alone look to be about 50 lbs each.
Yeah you're probably right, but Baltimore starting OT's are 310+, that's still a 50lb advantage, give me 3 guys that are around 300 the majority of the time, rather than only 2, so we are not at such a size disadvantage every game, another reason our defense seems to wear down late in seasons, to go along with the offense unable to sustain drives with any consistency. Whatever we've been doing hasn't been working
Watt is an elite run defender and Highsmith is really good, probably one of the better edge defenders. They aren't the issue. Heyward is elite as well and the defense does great when he's on the field. I think it's the rest of the IDL and the ILBs (outside of Elandon Roberts who they should've kept). Heyward is a hybrid between eras. He broke into the league under Dick LeBeau when the IDL valued sound technique and stopping the run before transitioning to generating pressure.