Every sack may look the same on the box score but they certainly aren’t all created equally. Sometimes the blame is on the offensive line. Sometimes it’s on the receivers. Sometimes it’s the scheme and sometimes you just have to tip your hat to the opponent. And sometimes, it falls on the quarterback.
After being sacked six times in each of the last two games, Mike Tomlin acknowledged during his Tuesday presser some of those pressures, hits, and takedowns fall on a rookie still playing like one.
“Sometimes Kenny gets Kenny in trouble,” Tomlin told reporters when asked about the high number of sacks.