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Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. 

Today, it's the continued usage of a halfback toss play by offensive coordinator Arthur Smith that caused a game-changing fumble by Najee Harris in the team's loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. 

The Steelers have been running the toss play all season as a staple of their ground attack, because it gets Harris on the edge against a smaller secondary defender, and offers him multiple cut-back lanes so that it doesn't have to be blocked perfectly in order to be a positive play. But it didn't work so well against the Eagles. What was Philly doing, and should Smith throw that page of his playbook away? 

Alan breaks it down.

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