The Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense hasn’t been good enough over the first two weeks. You’ll get no argument from me. The 61 points they’ve allowed the first two weeks is 5th most in football, neck-and-neck with Cincinnati, Washington, and the Giants. Three teams you don’t want to be associated with right now.
At the same time, it’s hard to put all the blame on this unit. Believe it or not, there is progress being made and some of their struggles can be attributed to an offense doing them no favors.
As we wrote about yesterday, Seattle Seahawks’ left tackle Duane Brown said their offense tired the Steelers out in the second half, leading to them putting up 21 second half points after trailing Pittsburgh 10-7 at the half.