Steelers vs. Patriots: Coordinators Comments
By Kim Myers
Special Teams
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Special teams had an actual good week last week in terms of a blocked field goal. Anybody remember that? Yeah, totally happened. Daniel McCullers blocked Andrew Franks’ 24-yard field goal attempt so yeah, good stuff.
Special teams coordinator Danny Smith talked to Mike Prisuta about how the punt team kind of had their first bad game of the season. Jordan Berry didn’t fail at an attempted fake field goal or anything like that but he certainly wasn’t booming his kicks like he has been so far this year.
Smith talked about Tyler Matakevich’s recovery of the Dolphin’s onside kick that was called back for referee stupidity early on in the game. “Dirty Red” is making his way so far on special teams and that’s the way most Steeler linebackers have established their careers over the years.
The object for Smith’s unit this Sunday against New England is to create that field position advantage the punting team was giving the offense in previous games. This won’t likely be the shootout we all expected it to be so field position will be extremely important.