DISCLAIMER: Welcome to the NFL Slate Scheme and Coverages Breakdown! While this breakdown is serving as a way to see into schemes, situational football, and ultimately display where each defense has a weak point, you should be using the models here to build your lineups. Every week, this will get shorter and shorter as the goal is just to identify where these defenses show they’re weak over the course of the season. Let’s dive in! PIT/ATL PIT Defense -

Second year DC Teryl Austin had this defensive overachieving last year as they had a slew of injuries to their defense last season. They’re stingy and we’re top 10 in PPG allowed and turnovers. They did give up a lot of yardage but we’re really tough in the red zone Surprisingly, they’re a bend but don’t break defense on first/second downs and longer yardage situations, and then an ULTRA aggressive blitzing defense on third down and short yardage situations. They played Man coverage 31% of the time, good for 7th in the league and are o...