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Week 6 Preview: Baker’s Big Test, Big Ben’s Quick Game, the Dalton Cowboys

1a. It’s hard to find two offenses that look as drastically different from their past iterations than the Steelers’ and the Browns’. Cleveland, under Kevin Stefanski, is using a run-first zone attack complemented by play-action, as opposed to last year when someone presumably spilled spaghetti sauce all over the team’s one playbook and so they just decided everyone do whatever.

On Sunday, they’ll be facing a Steelers defense that has a reputation for being blitz-heavy, and that’s partially true. Pittsburgh blitzes a ton on first and second downs; we’ll see how that affects the Browns on early-down run—the Steelers' approach is effectively run blitzing, and they're the league's best run defense—and the play-action game Cleveland uses.