ByAlex Kozora
Too. Many. Penalties.
That’s the way you can sum up the year the Pittsburgh Steelers had on special teams in 2018. Well, that, and Chris Boswell forcing you to close your eyes every time he lined up to kick.
No team had more special teams penalties than the Steelers’ 27 of them in 2018. And they happened for a variety of reasons. But a persistent one were illegal blocks. Pittsburgh was flagged four times for blocks above the waist/blindside blocks on the punt return team last season, a frustratingly high amount.
Like this one called on Tyler Matakevich versus Denver. A bad decision to push the Broncos’ player from behind, drawing the flag.
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I'll wait to see if that's going to be the case in the regular season, but if it does, it would have taken only 7 long years before Danny Smith taught this to his players!