Film Room: Russell Wilson Makes Steelers Offense More Dangerous

what's going on Steelers Nation welcome back to the channel today Russell Wilson film breakdown you guys asked for it going to provide you guys with hopefully a really comprehensive breakdown of Russell Wilson's game his strengths weaknesses things he does well his fit within the Arthur Smith offense the things that they're going to need to do in order for him to succeed and some of the things things that I'm a little bit concerned about with his game as he continues to get older so all that stuff's going to come in the film room I appreciate your all support all the comments on the analysis video thank you so much just please make sure you like this video drop me a comment subscribe to the Channel all that good stuff let's get to it all right so Russell Wilson 26 touchdowns last year eight picks a little over 3,000 yards had a nice bounceback 2023 season after you know the prior season without Shawn Payton didn't go so well in Denver but um just kind of want to break break some things down kind of segmented in terms of the things that he does well so first thing I think everybody knows about you know the Deep ball Russell Wilson one of the best deep ball throwers really in NFL history but definitely uh of his generation and this is the kind of stuff that he can still provide you um at the NFL level you know the commanders here are going to spin down they're showing too high they're going to spin down the this week safety Wilson does a good job identifying that drops a beautiful deep ball and this is uh you know that's right in the Bread Basket and this is one of the reasons that a lot of teams have you know went away from playing a lot of single high against him just as you know his career is kind of unfolded because he has the capability of doing this this is what he does best in the bucket so that's really what he provides to you if you play single high he's going to take you over the top and create those explosive plays over the top now next play we'll go over here against the Chargers again this is another example of just you know him pushing the ball vertically little playmaking ability I wanted to show you guys kind of starting off with just his arm because I think it's important you know when guys get up to you know 35 36 years old a lot of people start asking you know is the arm still there does he still have the ability to you know take you over the top does he still have the ability to drive the ball with velocity and I think when you look at Wilson's game it's still there I mean this thing is you know a good almost 60 yards right in the bucket for a contested catch to court and Sutton you know it's nice to have all that pass protection time you know Wilson is a guy who likes to hold the football quite a while we'll go over that a little bit later in the video but here just really like the calmness in the pocket playmaking ability nice shift up in the pocket to make a Defender Miss and then again slow it down for you guys this is right in the bucket a heck of a catch by courland sutel nice one-handed grab right there with the guy leaning on his back but I mean you can look at where Wilson releases this ball well across the 50 yard line this thing ends up on the back pile line that's a good almost 60 yards in the air for a fantastic catch so um that's that's Russ's game man he wants to throw the Deep ball again just really really gifted in terms of the things that he can do in terms of stressing you vertically and this is another part of his game you know the play action I think this is where his fit within Arthur Smith's offense is the best Arthur Smith when he was with the Titans with Ryan tanah Hill had a lot of his success this is what he wanted to do he wanted to take you vertically off play action have that wide Zone outside Zone scheme and then try to take deep shots over the top to create explosive plays and you know the um the Broncos here running a nice little uh pylon concept so you get the pylon from the number two little comeback route from the number one Sutton doesn't even really get that much separation right here but I mean this is just the touch that he puts on this throw is just absolutely special you see the play fake hitch up in the pocket in Rhythm I mean that's a dime you cannot throw it any better than that and a nice job by su playing through contact gets a flag there still comes down with the uh touchdown reception but this is what Russ is going to do uh I think the Steelers are going to be extremely run heavy they're going to run a lot of that outside Zone they're going to Pound The Rock Pound The Rock hopefully for efficient numbers and then allow Russ to take you over the top and create these explosives you know I tweeted out a couple of these videos on my Twitter account I don't think it's hard to you know imagine you know George pickings on the other side of some of these 50-50 balls or deep ball chances I mean Courtland Sutton's a really good player I think Pickins is an even better player so I'm really excited to see what these two can do when pushing the ball down the field and you know I think the sky's really the limit in terms of if Russ can be the Deep ball thrower that he's been for the majority of his career you know his numbers took a little bit of a dip over the last two seasons we can talk a little bit of that you know scheme wise with Shawn pyton but you know this is this is something that he's done consistently over the course of his career so really excited about what that's going to look like again another example here little gun play action stuff which is definitely something that Arthur Smith is going to need to lean into a little bit more with Russ because this is where he's most comfortable um but you know this is a good example of them moving the launch Point getting him away from the pocket because again that's where he's most comfortable he likes to play on the perimeter he likes to playmake get outside the pocket play out of structure that's his game take you over the top for another explosive play so um you know the Gunplay action stuff we can talk about that that's something I referred to in my article for Steelers now as well but it's a good thing because you don't want to become predictable when you get in the gun you don't want to let these pass rushers continuously just tee off on him when he gets uh in shotgun because he's not necessarily like a pure drop back passer so this slows the pass rush down you can see what it does particularly to the interior guys moves into the other side of the field you move the launch point they seal it off well originally this guy eventually breaks free from the tight end Russ does a good job making him Miss and then really little baseball throw on the Move I'm not really sure if he means to put this on the inside because he maybe felt like he was running out of real estate but this is a heck of an adjustment uh for Marvin Mims here really talented rookie who I think is going to do some really good things but excellent throw right there again gun play action move the ball down the field next play here I again this section is just really going over the arm because I want everybody to understand that his arm like 90ish per still intact from his Prime and I think that that's a really encouraging thing you know a good example right here against the Bears they're um going to split safety this it's going to be a little Tampa two action and the Broncos are just going to run what's called 989 so really it's just two go routes and kind of a post or a Crosser uh from the slot Russ does a good job once he sees these safety split hold this safety a little bit and then again if you're willing to trust your arm to make make this type of throw from the 12 yd line I mean this thing's on the line it's got some good velocity to it in the bucket I mean that's you know deeper than the corner right before the safety and he also throws it with enough velocity to where this dude doesn't even take a hit I mean these These are the honeyhole shots what we refer to these as I mean he doesn't even take a hit right here nice clean throwing motion up and down boom right and stde and it allows him to get some yards after the catch so um again I don't want to you know sugarcoat anything the arm in terms of you know thing if you're concerned at all about the arm don't be concerned about the arm it's still intact he can still throw a velocity the Deep ball the touch it's still all there man there are other things that you need to be way more worried about uh than this dude's armst strength so again just uh you know wanted to kind of go through some play action stuff I really like Russ and play action this is something that I wish the um Broncos leading into a little bit more you know they were 22nd last year in play action usage it's just not that's just not enough with Russ if you think back to his Prime with the Seahawks early days of Marshon Lynch even as he got older and he started to take more of the responsibility in the passing game play action a heavy heavy dose of it was really the key to his success because it allows him to push the ball vertically and gets him to play little more within the structure of the offense so right here they're going to pull a lineman play action this is actually called I think fluty sting is what Shawn Payton calls this really is just a sail and go you see Jerry Judy selling the sail route with the Deep post as the clear out going to pump this thing up the field and again this is a ball that you need to drive with velocity because of the corner you don't want to put too much air on this because then the corner can kind of fall off on it but he drives this with velocity and again this is away from the corner over the top of him and before the safety is there doesn't even really take a hit and almost scores a touchdown so excellent throw again the velocity is still there man and this is really how you kind of Envision the Steelers using him a lot of play action stuff off that wide zone system just push the ball down the field you know the the Run game's going to need to F need to really be the efficiency driver and then Russ is going to need to find the explosives and here we have just one more throw just to touch on the arm strength this is a laser Chicago dropping back into a little cover two Russ is going to work away from the mic throw it some anticipation just check out when his hand starts to separate right here Sutton doesn't even have his head back around to the football capital A for anticipation and that's a DOT right on the face mask he's pumped up fist pump awesome celebration show you guys this one from the endzone angle as well again you can see him immediately ID the mic going to work away from him he don't work in the middle very often he only had 20 completions last season in the Intermediate Middle portions of the field that was nine more than Kenny picket we all I think you know if you watch a Steelers offense you were craving more of this but the reason he doesn't Target this area of the field is not because of arm strength that's a laser right over the top of the linebacker show that one more time I mean again can't throw it any better than that man the other thing about Russ uh you know the elite traits I think that have carried him really to you know a potential Hall of Fame career have been you know the Deep ball like we already touched on you know the ability to stretch the field vertically and also his playmaking ability like the things that he can do out of structure this is honestly how he prefers to play which can get a little chaotic but the things that he can do when the play breaks down and outside the pocket and when he goes into this creation or scramble mode are special and you still see some flashes of that even if the athleticism has waned a little bit at this stage of his career see a little oky do here got an unblocked defender on the naked keeper spin around again this is off his back foot you talk about like arm talent I think some people only refer to arm Talent as far as you know how how fast or how how much velocity can you generate on the ball this is arm Talent being able to throw off your back foot to a guy in the corner of the end zone and Dot it up like this over a Defender that's arm Talent man even at 35 there are just not very many quarterbacks that are making that type of throw um and this is really what he's made his career off of this is what he does best that's his comfort zone if we're being completely honest um another good example of him just making some stuff happen outside the structure of the play gun play action we know we love that I already talked about that a little bit but again this is just an example of Russ making something happen they love these crossers uh we're going to see a couple more examples of this a little later in the video they love these crossers in the red zone right here but no one's really open at this point in the play got Max Crosby coming off the edge one-on-one with the right tackle we don't really love that matchup but escapes out the back door of the the pocket throw on the run again this is a good this is a guy we'll show a couple clips of him outside the outside the pocket just to show off the accuracy but this is a guy who throws really well on the move again this is how Russ wants to play how he's made a career plan you see uh Crosby he kind of swims inside right here he loses contain on Russ and at this point it's like that old Mike Tomlin clip when he was talking about Big Ben once he gets out the pocket starts rolling right that's when good things happen man little baseball throw sling it in there again this arm strength right on the face mask you know Russ one of the things in 2022 I felt like you know when he had that really down season his first year in Denver felt like one of the big things was you know he just he just didn't look athletic at all you know and it was weird because he his athleticism had been dipping a little bit in Seattle but he just didn't look athletic at all last year he came in a little bit lighter he slimmed down he honestly looked more agile you saw some things like this where he was able to scramble with his legs he's not the same athlete he was back in 2015 or when he went to the Super Bowl with Seattle but he's still a guy that can pick up a first down here and there and Shawn pyton even trusted him to run some design runs I mean we're not going to probably see that in Pittsburgh although Arthur Smith does like some some Zone read with the quarterback U but this is a guy you know who can when things break down still has a little bit of twitch to him get around a defensive lineman scramble up so these types of things I still think are valuable even if they aren't as prevalent in Wilson's game as far as like the overall rushing ability another thing you know we're going to see a lot of play action bootlegs it's a really heavy staple of Arthur Smith's offense you have to be able to run these uh throw on the Move good example right here off play action little keeper you got a guy on the flat usually how these things kind of progress you got the guy on the flat you usually have some type of deep over and some type of clear out route vertically Russ does a good job being aggressive throwing the ball vertically down the field pushing the ball I like the subtleness to Russ's game too um you know one thing I don't think he he's gotten enough credit for over the course of his career is just how some of the Savvy stuff he does outside the pocket with the pump fakes and the shoulder fakes and looking Defenders off watch him move we know this guy down here margus Peters number 24 watch him move Peters with this pump fake up towards the flat little pump hand separates he's just going to wing this thing in right behind him for a nice chunk play so lot of stuff to like right there I didn't really show Too Many bootlegs because I figured you guys probably already know you know this is what this is what Russ does I mean this is going to be a big part of the offense we're going to see a lot of wide Zone a lot of bootleg stuff Arthur Smith's going to have fun you know moving the banch point with Russ um talk about crossers and stuff in the Red Zone one of the things I like about Russ's game too you know we talk about arm Talent not being just about how far you can throw the ball how fast you can throw the ball but the touch you can put on the ball especially when guys are breathing down your neck so in the Red Zone Russ has some really strong moments last year you know 26 touchdowns that's more than any of the Steelers quarterbacks combined have put up in the past two years you know and I think that's a big reason that you know they're bringing him in you they want to score more points they got to be able to score more than 21 points to consistently get them a shot to win games we get a free rusher up here in the a gap that's you know rule number one a pass protection we don't want to see that free rusher up the a gap throws off his back foot nose is going to take a little bump love love love the accuracy right here any of these bigger receivers you know George Pickins just throw the ball up man just let him go get it off the top shelf again off his back foot and that's a beautiful beautiful throw a lot your big body receivers to kind of box these little DBS out excellent throw right there I think we got another example right here against the Chiefs you know Russ has oddly enough played uh played the Chiefs fairly well over the course of his career they beat them last year I believe again they love these crossers in the Red Zone Jerry Judy run it away from man coverage anytime you get man in the in the Red Zone area these deep crossers are money and he sees this thing really early too like you can tell right away he knows he's got man coverage just going to lob this one out there perfectly in stride again anytime you can get you know your your receivers on these Runaway plays against man coverage left tackle gets bumped into him a little bit but still a really nice throw again that just dropped right in the bucket that's a handoff really nice throwing in the Red Zone there from Russ so I got a lot of questions about the middle the field usage and you know obviously a lot of that is Arthur Smith's offense so how's he going to fit with this admittedly it's a little bit of a clunky fit but there are ways to get him to throw in this area of the field and ways to help him do so so when I saw Russ attacked the middle of the field when I was going through and watching all these different games it usually came when he was working the front side with some type of in Breer or high low and doesn't have to get his eyes back to the backside so right here we're just getting a little high low right here little option route from the running back and a kind of glance from the number one receiver and a split nice job hitting this with anticipation now the big thing is right here he's just reading this week safety so when this week safety they're the Raiders are playing quarters so he doesn't have a threat from number two because number two's coming from the back field so the big thing is if this guy's getting any type of depth Russ just has to make sure he throws us on time and he does you see the hands start to separate throwing behind the linebacker with some anticipation as long as that Ball's out on time it'll keep him away from get taking a big hit from that safety not that safety was playing more flat footed you'd want to tuck that down and move to the other side of the field but really nice throw there from Russ uh next play right here coming out in empty uh this is one of the big things with Russ you have to play in empty this is something that he does extremely well he's really comfortable in it allows him to have a lot of freedom at the line of scrimmage um this is something that you know I think that Arthur Smith will need to lean into quite a bit more uh but this you know late in the game against the Texans right here they're going to put courin Sutton as the number three receiver at the bottom of the screen they're just going to run him up the pipe this is Tampa two I believe or some type of two uh split coverage right here this just gets him up the pole with a linebacker that's a matchup that you really want love the anticipation here from Russ throwing the ball right in the bucket you guys will get a good look at this from The End Zone angle but again once you spread the defense out like this and empty it allows you to create mismatches and create matchups and it's really easy reads for the quarterback because the defense is so spread they can't really disguise any their looks disguise any their coverages or their blitzes so it does a good job Russ just pre- snap identifying he knows where he's going with the football he's just trying to look off that other safety to get him out of the picture so that he can throw this ball right where he wants to this is awesome you know when the linebackers got his back turned like this you know they say width of the shoulders there's this dude has no shot that's Denzel Perryman to I'm pretty I'm pretty sure so there's no way he's making that play especially on court Courtland Sutton but that Ball's on the money it's a handoff big time Play Over the middle next play right here again in the shotgun little gun play action again we we know we need a lot of that already went over that hit on that that's going to be a big part hopefully of the offense but I really like this too um you know putting Jerry Judy in the slot where he does a lot of his damage gun play action really this just gives the play action token fake here again just slows that defensive line down just a little bit and it allows for a little extra time for the receivers to get down the field working vertically but a really nice job by Russ you know just allowing Judy to make that little double move to the corner to the post and then again it's good contested catch by Judy this is one thing that the Broncos receivers did a really good job of I was a little bit underwhelmed by them on tape to be honest with you in terms of just generating consistent separation but I did think that both of those guys particularly Sutton made a lot of really nice plays at the catch point and you know the Steelers have a guy that can can do some of those same things too right number 14 these type of catches or catch opportunities are right within his wheelhouse but I like this right here just allow your guy to go up and get it again I mean I think he had six uh deep ball completions over the middle of the field so so even though there wasn't much intermediate work and we can kind of get to why that is uh he did Stretch the field vertically you know in the Deep areas of the field as well so I mentioned you know the utilization of empty and um how much it allows Russ to play Within the structure of the offense gets him to play a little bit more on time but also it takes advantage of his football IQ you know this a guy who's been around the league for you know 12 13 years he's seen every type of Defense he understands defenses understand where the weaknesses are and how to take advantage of those good pre- snap uh Rec recognition here from Russ just again empty so the playmaker spot which is what we call the number two of the weak side of the formation right here he's going to be lined up against the safety so in that spot they put Jerry Judy Jerry Judy versus safety if that's your number one guy that's a opportunity you think that that dude's going to take advantage of now the Lions end up bringing a little bit of a blitz they bring five what that means is you don't really have that that whole defender on that side and they're going to isolate Judy on this little option route he has has you know basically a leverage Choice he can go outside he can break inside nice job crossing the defender's face Russ hits him over the middle so these are some of the ways you know you know Russ he likes to play out of structure he likes to throw the ball deep down the field you got your play action stuff you got your boot stuff how are you going to find those other passing plays to keep you on schedule kind of the meat and potatoes of the offense that's what quick game is so that's kind of what I always say you know quick game really is just to allow your quarterback to get in a little bit of a rhythm them and to allow you to stay ahead of the chains it's not something you can rely on you know 80 90% of the time but you can't throw the ball down the field 15 20 times a game it's just not realistic so kind of want to go back a little bit you know talk about this one you see Russ doing all these hand motions he's just looking at the defense pre- snap you know he understands what the coverage is going to be it's going to end up being a little Tampa too once he sees this mic open his hips he's going to check this thing down to the OTB over the ball route this is just really A variation of Hank to me you get the over the ball then you got uh Cur flat on the outside this is a really simple completion again just to move the chains I think they're in second short right here but again it's just get him comfortable it's just a one step drop throw it in Rhythm like at Robert Spain in coverage right there you see the hand motions Shawn Peyton one of the things I do give him credit for you know I think a lot of people have these misnomers or bad narratives about the Shawn Payton offense about what he did with Russ or didn't do enough of with Russ he gave Russ um you know control at the line of scrimmage and I think when you have a veteran quarterback you don't want to strip them of that because they've seen so much they're good communicators you know that experience needs to be an asset not a detriment so um and now we're to the video where I'm going to start to point out you know some of the things that are you know negatives with his game and just stuff to be aware of you know that the sewers are going to have to work around I mean there's look just being fully transparent man y'all know how we do it on the video or on the channel we go over the positives we go over the negatives I bring you guys unbiased you know opinions so there's a reason why this guy was available and Denver was willing to take all that dead money for him to not play for them all right so the fact of the matter is it just didn't go very well in Denver and there's some of the reasons why right here um up against the Patriots this was last season the Pats end up bringing four Russ just kind of spins around in the pocket brings pressure on himself one of the bad things about Russ's game just even when he was in Seattle uh he makes it incredibly difficult to block for him from time to time I mean there are just times where he does this where he brings pressure on himself if you just look at his drop they do get a bit of a free runner off the edge but the backs there I mean they have everything blocked up they've got six pass protectors for really five rushers in a spy and rush just kind of runs himself into pressure right here runs himself into the right tackle spins around and look while he's doing that if you really look at it this is some of the stuff we pointed out really with picket last year right look at the number three receiver this is Judy he's going to be working just kind of like wide cross right he's going to stair step this guy at the top of the route push off that might be offensive pass interference but when Russ turns around he can't see Judy who has now like a step and a half on the defender this ball could be thrown towards the sideline with a little bit of touch and you're going to get an easy first down on third down instead kind of twirl around in the pocket bring pressure on herself take a really bad sack on third down you're forced to punt so it's stuff like this about when when Russ is forced into dropback situations getting him to play consistently on time within the structure of the offense has just really never been a thing man like he he wants to play out of structure once he once you kind of take some of the deep ball stuff away once he has to drop back into these three and five step drops from gun he's just not he's not that comfortable throwing from the pocket and there are reasons for that um but you just have to understand that you know if he gets in these situations he's going to take some bad sacks and you're going to have to have offensive linemen that are capable of blocking for 3 four five seconds because you know he holds the ball for one of the longest time to throw in the league you know he was over three seconds last year I think he was one of four quarterbacks over three seconds so it's just it's just how he's always played a good example right here this actually combines multiple things uh that I think are kind of detriments or negatives to his game uh the Broncos are going to be running a dagger concept to the bottom of the screen you're going to get a clear out from the number two wide receiver and you're going to get this deep deep dig from the number one right here you can see Russ he's looking at it he's pumping he's pumping he's patting the ball this thing I mean it's not it's not breaking wide open Guys these aren't windows that you see in college but this is NFL open if a guy has a step in the middle of the field and you're you know this is I mean the Raiders look like they're playing two man right here middle of the field if you get a receiver that can break somebody's face and win over the middle this ball has to be thrown 10 times out of 10 got to be thrown and if you're not going to throw it and you're going to try to play out of structure and get outside the pocket you can't take a sack and that's exactly what happens here again this is a third and long situation and the reason why I'm showing you guys this is because all of the things that Russ is struggling with right now as his game is aged all of it has been magnified because he's no longer like the elite of the elite athletes so the way he's been always programmed to play he just he can't play like that anymore whereas a lot of pocket passers really hit their stride in their 30s that's why his game hasn't aged as gracefully you can see look he's looking at this dig right here watch Pat Pat Pat I mean that's a triple clutch I mean you just don't see that very often and then even then like pass protection's great here I mean he's had time to Pat the ball three four five times runs into his own lineman and again like I think 25y old Russ man he probably breaks his thing to the outside launches some Moon balls 40 yards down the field but it's just it's hard it's hard to play like that so there are just limitations uh just throwing over the middle and he just holds the ball a long time and he's going to take some sacks and I think some of the middle of the field stuff is difficult because you really can't blame him right like the dude's he's he's sub six foot there are just things that his height like people will say you know around the NFL draft time height doesn't matter that much for quarterbacks it really does unfortunately it does and you see it on his tape right here at the top of the screen right here I believe this is Marvin Ms running this kind of shallow in breaker right here R sees it but there's internal pressure in the middle of the pocket and he just can't really break he can't really break down and throw right here because you know when you're sub six foot and you got these guys in your face when you're 6'5 you could just throw right over the top of these guys or kind of drop an arm slot or something like that he doesn't have the luxury that some of those 65 dudes do so instead of this being a third down conversion this ends up being another you know kind of throwaway basically at somebody's feet so um you know you just have to understand like that's that's the reason why the target areas for his heat chart are the way they are he's never going to be a guy that can really get to you know those type of reads when the pocket's really muddy um the other thing too I mentioned the empty quick game stuff I just think that empty for whatever reason I don't know why but it just seems like to me that's when he's most consistent and in terms of playing within the structure of the offense so right here this is just a little red zone clip the Broncos are just running double stick I mean this is about as simple as they gets every high school in America runs this get a little stick route from the tight ends and a little out route from the outer receivers now the big thing here is the Vikings have six guys at the line of scrimmage so they're bringing all six this is blocked up this ball has got to be out I mean this is the definition of quick game right this is one step no hitch throw the ball if you just pause it right here we've got at least three probably four guys that are wide open you just can't take a sack right here man especially in field goal range you just can't do it it puts you into third and long situations you're going to end up throwing some type of screen the next play and you're going to kick the field goal it's frustrating for like offensive coordinators when they're calling these type of plays to get you in Rhythm and you just take a sack it that's that's some of the frustrations with Russ and I I just want you guys to be prepared that y'all are going to see some of this a lot of offensive coordinators whether it be in Seattle now Denver have tried to coach this out of him and it's just not how he plays so these are some of the drawbacks there are things that you can do to you know minimize this but it just that's just his game man you know I think a lot of the people um you know have noticed that you know Russ he averaged like 7.8 average depth of Target last season it was a career low for for him a lot of that was Shawn Payton's offense a lot of screens I felt like they threw um but there are some stuff too where I felt like Russ just over the course of the Season there were times where I felt like he was just lacking confidence a little bit so this a sale concept to the top of the screen against cover three now I would argue that once he hits the back foot of his drop I think you throw the sail right here because I think you can get this over the flat Defender and the cornerback has his back turned to the sideline if that dude is not a exceptional athlete he's not going to be able to flip at that angle and break up this ball now if you don't want this the Dig route coming at the bottom of the screen is also wide open so you can go one to two and get to the backside but those full field reads have never really been Russ's thing like you really have to construct your offense around like half field reads Because by the time he ever gets to the backside of the progression the defensive line has already kind of collapsed the pocket enough to where he can't see over the Defenders anyway so they're just very rare like you'll very rarely see him go right to left or left to right within the same play he just won't do it because he just can't see over those guys you can even see right here he just ever so glances to the backside but he doesn't even think about throwing it so there's just a lot of checkdowns where I felt like it was a little unnecessary um or I would just like to see him be a little bit more aggressive you know so um you know with Russ too there are definitely some things um on film that I I you know a little bit concerned with you know I think this is another good example right here you know the Steelers are going to you know they should be gun play action heavy but these shot plays right here they're designed to throw the ball down the field so you're going to get two deep routes you have a little clear out and maybe like a sale I mean this is open right like you can throw this over whoever number zero is down here the corner you can absolutely throw this you basically got a two-on-one on that safety he either has to stay over the top or drive on the sail and we end up checking the ball down I mean not only do we end up checking the ball down I mean there's a guy right on him so as soon as he gets this ball it's a one-on-one I mean maybe this back can make those guys miss consistently like that luckily he gets a penalty but you know that those are just some of the small complaints that I have about russa's game some of those I don't like you're not going to be able to teach him to throw the middle of the field consistently you're not going to get him to play consistently in structure the offense there are things that you can do to build around him though the Deep ball accuracy still he's still got the Deep ball his arm is still intact he's going to make plays for you out of structure you're going to have to be really play action heavy you're going to have to run the ball extremely well and then you're going to have to just throw the ball vertically try to create explosive plays off of that it's going to be important for the Steelers to run the ball efficiently because his down to- down consistency isn't what a lot of you know veteran passers provide in that regard like the drop back passing game isn't going to be extremely robust but you know like I said in the analysis video I think Russ is definitely still a guy that you can win with you have a good running game you have a good defense he's going to take mostly good care of the football he's going to put the ball in the end zone more than they've been accustomed to over the past you know however or many years but just temper the expectations this is uh Russ is not a guy that's necessarily going to elevate the entire offense but he's a guy that um is still a capable starting quarterback based on you know the dozen or so games that I've grinded out over the past couple of days so I appreciate you guys watching as always again just do me a favor like the video drop me a comment let me know what you guys thought of the video let me know if you guys are excited about Russ in this offense and as always I will check you guys next Town peace and love

Channel: Steelers_DB

Views: 44,160

Keywords: Steelers, PittsburghSteelers, Pittsburgh, Russell Wilson

Id: sNLDLXwqrLo

Length: 33min 59sec (2039 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 12 2024