An NFL season can often be a tale of two halves. The first half of the season, players are settling in physically and mentally, kinks are being ironed out, and a groove is being settled into.
The second half of a season, well that’s where players — and teams — can really start to take off, or fold.
For the Pittsburgh Steelers, they happened to do both in the second half of the season. After taking off and getting hot, especially after Week 7, they cratered down the stretch, losing five straight games and bowing out of the AFC Wild Card Round in embarrassing fashion.