I received a few questions wondering about how much help the offensive line received this past Sunday in pass protection against the Houston Texans so I had Alan Gifford go through the 39 drop backs of Ben Roethlisberger to report what he saw and chart who stayed in on each play and who chipped before releasing.
The table below shows the play by play of each drop back and as you can see, 36 of the 39 drop backs had some sort of pass protection help. 27 times the Steelers either kept a running back or tight end in to block or had them chip a defensive player on their way out into a pass pattern. There were 12 plays that consisted of nobody staying in, but on 9 of those there was some sort of chipping taking place. Only 3 times did the Steelers go 5 wide with no help to the offensive line in pass protection. There were 5 drop backs that consisted of what you could call max protection with 7 players staying in to block.
Thanks to Alan for putting this research together.
| Time | DWN | DIST | COMP | SACK | SCR | PEN | INT | QP | TARGET | YDS | # KEPT IN | PLAYERS KEPT IN | CHIPPED | COMMENTS |
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| 3:10 | 1 | 10 | Y | Wallace | 22 | 1 | Mendenhall | 0 | ||||||
| 2:41 | 1 | 10 | Y | Y | Sanders | 10 | 4 | Ward Johnson Miller Mendenhall | 0 | Quick pass left |
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| 1:59 | 1 | 10 | Johnson | 0 | 2 | Mendenhall & Johnson chipped |
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| 1:55 | 2 | 10 | Mendenhall | 1 | Johnson | 1 | Mendenhall small chip |
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| 1:49 | 3 | 10 | Y | IC | 1 | Moore Miller | 1 | Miller chiiped end Moore blitz p-up | ||||||
| 0:54 | 2 | 10 | Cotchery | 0 | 0 | 5 wide | ||||||||
| 0:50 | 3 | 10 | Y | 1 | Moore | 0 | 4 wide Moore blitz p-up | |||||||
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| 8:57 | 3 | 2 | Y | Miller | 1 | 1 | Redman | 0 | 3 TE\’ all in pattern Redman in |
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| 2:26 | 1 | 10 | Y | Miller | 7 | 1 | Redman | 0 | ||||||
| 2:00 | 2 | 3 | Brown | 0 | 1 | Miller chipped & released |
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| 1:57 | 3 | 3 | Y | Wallace | 40 | 1 | Redman | 0 | Redman waited then released |
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| 1:48 | 1 | 10 | Y | Wallace | 6 | 1 | Miller | 0 | Miller on end |
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| 1:21 | 2 | 4 | Y | Miller | 7 | 0 | 2 | Miller & Moore both chipped | ||||||
| 1:02 | 1 | 10 | Brown | 1 | Miller | 0 | Miller got corner blitzer |
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| 0:58 | 2 | 10 | Brown | 0 | 1 | Moore semi helped Gilbert |
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| 0:53 | 3 | 10 | Y | Wallace | 9 | 1 | Miller | 0 | Miller helped Essex |
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Quarter 3 |
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| 14:53 | 1 | 10 | Y | Y | Johnson | 6 | 1 | Mendenhall | 0 | Quick pass | ||||
| 13:35 | 1 | 10 | Mendenhall | 2 | Miller Mendenhall |
0 | Mendenhall whiffed | |||||||
| 13:29 | 2 | 10 | Y | 0 | 1 | Redman waited then released |
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| 12:56 | 3 | 15 | Y | Ward | 19 | 1 | Moore | 1 | Miller chipped Moore blitz p-up |
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| 11:09 | 2 | 15 | Y | Brown | 9 | 0 | 0 | 5 wide | ||||||
| 10:28 | 3 | 6 | Y | Brown | 7 | 2 | Miller Saunders | 0 | Miller Saunders h-backs |
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| 9:38 | 1 | 10 | Y | Brown | 23 | 2 | Miller Mendenhall | 0 | Mendenhall helped Miller |
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| 7:52 | 3 | 5 | Y | 8 | 1 | Miller | 0 | Miller got blitzer on edge |
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Quarter 4 |
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| 11:16 | 2 | 2 | Y | 1 | Johnson | 1 | Redman play action released |
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| 10:49 | 3 | 9 | Ward | 0 | 1 | Moore chipped released |
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| 7:45 | 2 | 10 | Y | Brown | 16 | 1 | Moore | 0 | Moore stayed in |
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| 7:15 | 1 | 10 | Brown | 1 | Moore | 0 | Moore blitz p-up |
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| 7:09 | 2 | 10 | Y | 1 | Moore | 0 | Moore blitz p-up | |||||||
| 6:09 | 3 | 21 | Y | 0 | 1 | Miller quick chip release |
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| 3:33 | 1 | 10 | Y | Ward | 0 | 0 | 5 wide quick pass |
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| 3:31 | 2 | 10 | Y | 1 | Johnson | 0 | Johnson beat bad | |||||||
| 2:44 | 3 | 7 | Sanders | 0 | 2 | Moore Miller small chips | ||||||||
| 2:38 | 4 | 7 | Ward | 2 | Miller Saunders | 0 | Miller Saunders h-backs | |||||||
| 1:02 | 1 | 10 | RP | Y | Ward | 1 | Redman |
1 | Miller chipped | |||||
| 0:51 | 1 | 10 | Y | Brown | 12 | 1 | Redman | 0 | ||||||
| 0:42 | 1 | 10 | Y | Redman | 12 | 0 | Redman | 1 | Redman chipped released |
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| 0:19 | 1 | 10 | 1 | Redman | 0 | Spike | ||||||||
| 0:19 | 2 | 10 | Y | 1 | Redman | 0 | ||||||||
