It is just preseason football, and the results don’t matter in the grand scheme of things, but the first preseason game is the culmination of weeks of hard work in training camp. The final score was 20-12 in favor of the Houston Texans, but that didn’t fully capture how one-sided things looked for the first half of the game when the starters were playing. The product that the Pittsburgh Steelers put on the field tonight was not great. Particularly the starting units, and the downfall was largely marked by sloppy play.
“Really sloppy performance, to be honest with you,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said while addressing the media after the game in a video posted on the team YouTube page.