The Pittsburgh Steelers did a lot of things wrong against the Baltimore Ravens, which is why they lost. However, maybe their most aggravating flaw was the miscommunication in their defense. That’s supposed to be arguably the best unit in the NFL, but against the Ravens, they got torched. Mike Tomlin attributed some of those issues to not having DeShon Elliott on the field.
“We didn’t do a good enough job of communicating on the back end,” Tomlin said Tuesday on The Mike Tomlin Show. “It’s probably the consequence of not having DeShon Elliott, but it’s just too late in the year for errors and miscommunication such as that.