If there is anything that we have learned about the Pittsburgh Steelers during their five-game win streak that can be their Achilles heel to slip on fall tomorrow, it would probably be their tendency to beat themselves with penalties this year. Not just a high number of penalties, but truly untimely ones.
While they have been able to escape the worst effects of those penalties over the course of the past five games, during which they have won all of their games, it should go without saying that penalties have played a role in most of their losses this season, including in the last game they lost, to the Cowboys, and in the loss before that, to the Ravens.