This is great Alex. It seems that Canada's offense frequently gave away plays based on formation and personnel. This will be a welcome addition.

You’re the only Steelers content I would ever consume in February. Keep up the great work.

Great job Alex! Please do more of these. It also would be nice to see what you could come up with on Arther’s passing game to see how it projects to fit Kenny like the presnap reads and going through post snap to see how the receiver progression reads look. I enjoy your breakdown and will definitely look for more!

Since Canadas' play design almost telegraphed plays to the defense, I'd have to say that Arthur Smiths' designs look brilliant, in comparison. Good job.

This breakdown is what I was looking for awesome work thank you

I'll admit, after listening to some other people discuss the situation I'm excited for this offense. I'm really excited for the O Line. Someone brought up how well Arthur Smith builds his O Lines. Pickett may benefit from the increase in play actions.

I like the variations off of the same look and I like Arthur Smith. I am still concerned about the passing game. Can you dig up some of his passing concepts? Thanks Alex

This disguise of play is what Canada promised us along with play action. Smith's offense is the proven NFL version that we have been waiting for. Finally. Here we go.

Geez...is this guy the best the Steelers could do!

Both in Atl and Tenn, you see a mental toughness in his offenses. I like the pick up. I’m hopeful they can be a tough ball control offense.

I like it...I like it a lot Here We Go Steelers 💪🏽

The future is looking exceedingly promising for Darnell Washington, this offensive scheme would put him to great use- Arthur smith is probably the best fit on how the Steelers Organization want to run their football team. - Alex, I commend you on a remarkable job, thanks for the insight

Tenessee's offenses while he was there are what we should be looking at.

This seems like a big difference. In Matt Canadas offense I always felt like I could see the pre-snap formation and tell you the exact play. If I can do it from my couch, there's no doubt NFL defenses can.

Good stuff here Alex, great breakdown. I'm excited to see all the ins and outs of this run game and how well it'll work next year

This is great. I look forward to seeing more of this. By the time the season arrives, I'm going to understand and appreciate what I'm watching in so much more detail thanks to you.

Really like these break downs thank you and keep them coming.

Alex with the consistency as usual! Keep up the great work

FANTASTIC breakdown, Alex. Add better WR's, maybe a roll-out into the mix, maybe a planned QB run (if the QB has the chops)... very well conceived. It really reminds me of pitching mechanics in baseball... keep the wind-up, arm angle, follow-thru the same... and they will never know whether it is a fastball, breaking ball or change. No tells. Then, add in an intentional tell (misdirection)... they don't know whether they're coming or going! With good execution and good blocking from WR's... this could work all day. Again, Alex... great work.

Great breakdown Alex. I was at this game and I just can’t forget how boring both offenses were, I discussed it with other fans at the game. Hope Arthur does better in Pittsburgh

Thank you...

Thanks Alex 😊

great vid. would love to see some seam routes to muth out of this grouping too, will be interesting to see what happens!

The Steelers defended those plays very well. When done with our offensive players it will be lethal.

The Falcons game against Cleveland is a good one.

Great stuff as usual Alex! A player keeps catching my eye that I think would fit perfect in our new offense... Jaheim Bell: TE - FSU. Although I'm a Connor Heyward fan, I see him as an upgrade. I'd love to hear what you think.

If you know Arthur Smith’s upbringing then you know this guy probably wanted for nothing. His PASSION is football. I believe he’s more concerned with producing a winner than collecting a paycheck. And we as fans of the game know this model is a winner no matter who you are talking about.

I would appreciate more passing options out of the formation and not just PA pass, but maybe that is something smith does?

Nice video Alex...now an example like this from the passing game please!

Good tape

This is what a NFL level OC brings to the table. Multiple different plays out of the same formations. Canada had no such thing! I would watch the Steelers and tell my wife what type of play was coming with probably 90% accuracy sitting on my couch. Not bragging just trying to point out the predictability. Now the NFL pays people a great deal of money to figure this out and i'm sure they did. I remember an opposing teams linebacker, can't remember the team specifically, stating they knew what play was coming from the Steelers!

I love the variation in playcalls out of the same formation and shift, but I would like to see it utilized systematically and not randomly. For example, you want to see on tape how the defense is going to align to the formation, and the first scripted call should take advantage of that alignment. If the safety follows the shift, zone run to the weakside. Then when the defense adjusts by going to LB pushes or Dline shifts instead of the safety following, hit them with the strongside power. The key is ALWAYS winning the numbers game, not just keeping the defense guessing. QB run game audibles would be great too. If its a weakside zone but the safety stays in the hole like minkah did on one example, the QB should have the ability to check into a strongside run or even a play action if its 1 high with the box loaded. Thats where I felt like matt canada’s scheme was truly lacking, aside from the piss poor pass concepts and lack of PA. Far too often they were running jet sweep into unblocked boundary players or into over fronts where they were losing the numbers game and the rbs had to make multiple guys miss. If arthur smith’s weakside zone hits big, don’t immediately go to strong power. Run that weakside two or three times, force that adjustment by the defense, and have the counter ready. By doing that you can have more confidence in what the defense is going to show, and thus make better playcalls to exploit it

Washington...the beast ...any help on blocking...

Hey 👋 Alex could you compare Matt canada play calls vs arthur smith

Because arthur smith offense kinda looks like what Matt Canada's wanted to do.

Steelers fans will hate this guy by year two, if not by year one.

Hopefully we keep those Canada jet sweeps

We really won games despite Canada and not because of Canada….

Call me crazy but i like najii warren and bell at the same time in this formation

The more videos I see tryingto show Art Smith in a good light the more concerned I become. Running from this formation went well because of the excellent blocking which the Steelers did not have this season. Furthermore Najee is not good running the outside zone. Sure Jaylen would be good running the outside zone but with only him behind the QB it defeats the advantages shown here.

how is 8 runs out of 9 plays unpredictable??

Is this really his offense

I'm not as thrilled with the hire of smith.

First I would have to ask how this compares to what HE ran as OC in Tenn. some of this can be his OC in Atl. Next, So far none of those type runs look very Najee friendly! Najee is NOT and outside runner! He’s not quick enough for that! They look good for say Jaylen. Also, most of them were stopped dead in their tracks and any nice gains were due to the RB making a good move to get extra yards! I sure hope this isn’t what our offense will look like!

Heavy. PA. Get a good pass game coordinator. Who knows?

Get Gentry back...blocker / pass catch /... the man is a QB dammit...use your weapons

I know Madden isn’t reality but this is exactly what I used to do to stay unpredictable. In hindsight I realize I was probably being too clever because the AI isn’t smart enough to be fooled like that.

What I got from this is, play a defense that misses tackles, and has Devlin Bush. Of 9 plays in the same formation, only 1 was a play action pass, that was well covered. Those 9 plays = 63 yards, yet their other 16 runs netted 66 total yards and zero TDs combined. That the Matt Canada's simplistic, easy to decode offense put up 351 total yards to Smith's 306...and Steelers won. Nice. Looking forward to next season.

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Yeahhh good luck with that...from a Falcons fan. His offense was 1 dimensional and predictable especially when down by a couple TD's.

Sure miss Terrell Edmund’s… and boy did bush suck.

This film just reminded me of how bad Devin Bush was lol

Warren is going to be a PROBLEM in these outside zone runs

Patterson should have been dropped for 3 yard loss on the first clip if Highsmith had wrapped him up.

lol smith is awful, have fun with our leftovers

Bruh, you run 1k plays and cherry pick some that worked. Most of them did not in the 3 years he was in Atlanta and we had to watch every possession fizzle out and the occasional scoring drive. If y’all honestly believe this idiot can draw up plays (CONSISTENTLY) you’re mistaken.