Sutton

Sutton has been taking safety reps as well as corner. I see him as the new deshea Townsend/ Willie gay role. Does this also mean they are all in on Allen playing strictly corner? Will he also get reps at both? It will be interesting to watch these DBs this year. We have some talent and size to field. Maybe the best group collectively we have seen in a long time.

 

More than likely.


I would imagine thay Sutton is going to be the utility player within the secondary given his versatility and good football IQ.


Regarding Brian Allen, while he did play a bit of safety at Utah, I do believe that both Butler and Tomlin want to mold him into a quality depth corner. Not many 6'3 corners who can run 4.4s in the league.

 

It's time for him to separate from the pack.

 

Leave Allen at CB, we finally got a CB with good size now let's develop him into a contributor.

 

It's good these guys learn multiple spots. With Bradley teaching them I think the learning curve goes way up and knowing what every position back there is doing isn't a bad thing. It actually helps the defense and hurts the offense with our ability to confuse qbs primary reads.

 

I'm ready for a Bona Fide great player to come from our secondary. It's been a while.

 

seems like our whole defense is hybrid. As long as Heyward and tuitt aren't dropping back as a safety I'm cool lol

 

although tuitt can play safety better than Mitchell, I'm not being sarcastic either lol

 

Really looking forward to watching Brian Allen in SP games. Great potential in a 6'3", 4.4s guy ...Mel Blount potential?? Between Sutton, Burns, & Hayden ...they all seem capable

 

I thought I read earlier Brian Allen will concentrate solely on CB. Which makes sense since he is transitioning anyway, no need to muddy the waters.

Sutton is the heady player/film junkie, he can handle learning both spots. So excited to see how he does this year. Big Sutton fan. I would love for Sutton to challenge Davis at FS.

 

We have a lot of young players mixed in with some veteran. Hoping this is a strength of the Steelers going forward. Need to work on our pass rush still or it doesn't matter who's back there if the QB has enough time.

 

Didn't they lead the league in sacks last year?

 

Yes.

We were also 4th in team defense.

Somehow neither of those stats helped us win the Super Bowl? Something just seemed to be missing. Timeliness for one?

 

Injuries were huge at key positions. Hargreaves, tuitt, haden, sutton, mcdonald.

 

smoke and mirrors. playing backup qb's, having shaz, etc inflated our stats. when it came down to it, our Dline got manhandled by jax and linebackers couldn't cover anyone or stop the run.

eye test + stats = elite defenses. This team couldn't pass the eye test.