Through two weeks of the 2024 season, the Pittsburgh Steelers find themselves at 2-0, having allowed just 16 total points while taking the football away five times defensively.
The Steelers’ formula of leaning on a star-studded defense to take the football away and create short fields, limit killer mistakes offensively, run the football and win low-scoring games has worked so far. Again, they’re 2-0 and won both games on the road to open a season for the first time since 1999.
That matters.
Yet, in the bigger picture, that 2-0 record, which ESPN’s Brooke Pryor recently called a mirage, is in question because of how the Steelers are winning games and have looked doing so.