By Gerry Dulac / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
After one preseason game, it is apparent Todd Haley wants to bring back a lost art to the Steelers offense:
The screen pass.
While four-wide receiver formations and vertical passes were nowhere to be found Thursday in Philadelphia, Haley wanted to be sure to emphasize a lot of screen passes to running backs -- beginning with the first pass play to Isaac Redman and carrying right on through to a touchdown pass to rookie Chris Rainey.
"We got a bunch of different screens -- that's been an emphasis for us," said Haley, the team's new offensive coordinator. "We want to get a bunch of them called in real action and see if we can't get pretty efficient at them because it can be a real weapon."
Do not worry.
The offense that had a 4,000-yard quarterback and two 1,000-yard receivers in 2011 is not transitioning to a West Coast-style, dink-and-dunk attack, even though it appeared that way against the Eagles.
Haley said it is all part of a plan to emphasize certain parts of the offense in each preseason game, the idea being to bring it all together for the start of the regular season.
"Not a lot of game planning will go into these games," Haley said. "We've decided we're going to stay in training-camp mode because you need every day you can get with some of the [practice] limitations you have these days. We'll be focusing and emphasizing certain things in these games and trying to get better at them.
"We were pretty limited with our formations, but out of those formations we had multiple things we were doing or trying to do. There will be little more to it than that, generally speaking."
Haley said he kept the offense pretty basic and did not put in a game plan against the Eagles because the Steelers will play them again in the regular season. He said he used approximately six different run formations and probably 10-12 different pass formations in that game.
But, when the Steelers play the Indianapolis Colts Sunday night at Heinz Field, Haley said he will put in some form of game plan to get his players acclimated to what they can expect from him in the regular season.
"We'll grow a little bit each week and it will get closer to a real game week," Haley said. "Last week we didn't have game-plan books but this week we'll have a little more than that to get them a little more idea of how well to handle it in season.
Then he added, "You have to worry about yourself first and make sure, No. 1, you can evaluate the guys, that you're not doing too much so guys who aren't getting a ton of reps, you can look at them and decide where they fit. That's first and foremost. Second, you work on things we're going to do as a team and get efficient at those things, whether it's run or pass."
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