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In his weekly press conference https://www.steelerssportshop.com/Joe-Greene-Jersey , Mike Tomlin made a special note of the New Orleans Saints league rankings in run defense for 2018.“I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that there are number one in football versus the run. Part of that, obviously, is being a 12-2 football team. I understand that having leads and so forth, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that their number two in the league versus the run in terms of yards per carry. So they’re probably not getting a lot of carries because of the nature of the game or the circumstances that they’re in but you better acknowledge that they are just formidable at stopping the run period. Because the yards per carry illustrate that as well.”The Saints currently lead the NFL with the fewest rushing yards allowed with 1,107 yards. Subsequently, they are tied with the Philadelphia Eagles for the fewest number of rushing attempts against them with 301. When it comes to yards per carry, the Saints are averaging 3.68 Y/A, second only to the Houston Texans at 3.56 Y/A.Coach Tomlin was asked if New Orleans’ statistics against the run were due to the game circumstances of teams having to play catch up against them. “You can always shape those stories however you want. Again I think the yards per carry speaks to the dominance of their run defense. They’re number two in the league in terms of yards per carry. So forget the number of runs. Forget the game circumstance- ahead, behind, the nature of that. When people choose to run it, they’re number two in the league in terms of yards per carry, so they’re run-game dominant.”Tomlin did acknowledge the positive situations that the Saints have put themselves in have allowed them to be more successful against the run.“They’re a 12-2 football team so they’ve been up on some people so that creates a reasonable environment where some of the other things that you mentioned may occur.”Although it can be assumed game circumstance has contributed to the Saints ability to stop the run, the statistic show that their success is fairly consistent across the board. In fact, the Saints yards per carry decreases in games when they are tied or trailing Hines Ward Jersey , which are situations were teams are more apt to run the football. So far in 2018 when the Saints are leading the game, teams have only rushed the ball 28.1% of the time for 3.82 yards per carry. In situations where the Saints are tied or trailing their opponent, teams have rushed against them 45.9% of offensive plays while gaining 3.53 yards per carry. If New Orleans is trailing by three points or greater, their yards per carry given up decreases even further to 3.29 Y/A. So when the likelihood of a run is greater, the Saints have stepped up and allowed less yards per carry.Knowing when New Orleans is expecting a run they have excelled at stepping up their defense, it will be very important for the Steelers to disguise their personnel and formations in order to catch the Saints off guard with rushing the ball this Sunday. Something strange seems to be happening when it comes to the Steelers and running back Le'Veon Bell, as his final reporting deadline for 2018 approaches. And it could be that the Steelers are trying, in not so subtle fashion, to persuade Bell not to show up at all this year.That’s the only way to explain the sudden emergence of a report from NFL Network — owned directly by the league and partially by the Steelers — that Bell would be eligible for the quarterback franchise tender in 2019, regardless of whether he signs his franchise tender in order to get contractual credit for 2018.First, the language of the labor deal supports a plausible argument that, if Bell doesn’t play in 2018, his status would be tolled by a year. Second, the NFL and its teams aren’t in the habit of caving preemptively on plausible arguments that could be made within the confines of a formal grievance. Third Lynn Swann Color Rush Jersey , and perhaps most importantly, Bell’s camp was under the clear impression when his regular-season holdout began in September that he had to show up by the Tuesday after Week 10 in order to force the Steelers to use the quarterback franchise tender, if he were tagged again in 2019.So why would the Steelers and/or the league concede this important point now, a week before Bell’s poop-or-get-off-the-pot deadline for 2018? The logical explanation is that the Steelers simply don’t want him to show up, and that this is their way of sending a clear message that, if he doesn’t show up, they won’t apply the franchise tag again in 2019.Of course, if he doesn’t show up, the Steelers and the league wouldn’t be prevented from arguing that the 2018 tender applies in 2019. For now, though, the objective could be to get him to not show up, which would allow the Steelers to save nearly $6 million, to avoid the distractions inherent to bringing Bell back into the fold, and to not permit him to be signed by a team like the Ravens or the Patriots if the Steelers were to rescind the franchise tender https://www.steelerssportshop.com/Kevin-Greene-Jersey , making Bell a free agent.There’s no other reasonable explanation for the league’s decision to use its media platform as a megaphone for the notion that the Steelers, as a practical matter, can’t use the franchise tag on Bell again in 2019. The league isn’t in the business of surrendering potentially valid legal arguments under the CBA, and the league definitely isn’t in the business of permitting its in-house media conglomerate to tip the league’s hand, which is one of the very real benefits of the NFL and its teams owning the media conglomerate that covers the NFL and its teams. It seems that the Steelers simply want Bell to choose not to show up in 2018, and if he believes that he’ll have a straight shot to the open market in March without incurring any injury risk this season, why wouldn’t he?Even if, come February, the Steelers tag him again and the NFL argues that the amount is $14.54 million, not the quarterback tender.For more on this, check out Wednesday’s #PFTPM podcast.