It was an ugly offensive performance in Week One against the San Francisco 49ers at Acrisure Stadium for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Pittsburgh never got going offensively, reeling off five straight three-and-outs to open the game, ultimately putting themselves — and the defense — in a major whole that they couldn’t recover from.
For third-year offensive coordinator Matt Canada, the struggles were rather simple. The Steelers couldn’t have any kind of normal routine offensively because of the three-and-outs, and that they couldn’t do anything they planned on doing offensively because of the hole they dug quickly.
“You can’t have five three-and-outs and get down 20-0 and have any kind of a normal routine.