While it should be pointed out that some of the turnovers that the defense has produced this season have been the product of the ability to take advantage of mechanical errors such as botched exchanges, there is no mistaking that the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 12 takeaways in the first five weeks of the 2019 season clearly display an improvement over last year in terms of their ability to produce splash plays.
The problem is that the offense has had great difficulty capitalizing on those splashes, even when given the ball inside of field goal range, as that is often as far as they have gotten.