You couldn’t play a worse defense than Pitt currently is. I honestly have no idea what their game plan was (or lack thereof). wtf are they doing? 

The top and only goal against BAL is the following: Keep Lamar in the pocket at ALL COSTS. Yea, that means giving up 100 to Henry on the ground. But as long as it’s around 100 on enough carries, no problem. Not easy to contain Lamar, of course, but what I see out there is everything other than the intent of trying to keeping him in the pocket. 

The dude makes nearly every passing a “broken play” (other than 3-steppers that intend to stay with the chains to grab a third/second and short/manageable), and once he breaks the play, he’s unstoppable. Against that dude, the entire game plan has to be “keep in pocket.” And instead, I’m seeing the same-old 1v1 pass-rushing and vanilla/soft coverages on the back end. 

Just horrid defensive coaching.