Throughout the illustrious history of the Pittsburgh Steelers, defense has been the calling card much more often than not, from the days of the Steel Curtain, to the Blitzburgh group to the mid-2000s group.
Those groups all had one thing in common, too.
Outside of a great defensive front that got after the quarterback at a high rate, those Steelers defenses had tall, athletic, long cornerbacks such as Hall of Famers Mel Blount and Rod Woodson, and even a supremely underrated, yet very important piece in Ike Taylor.
Now, it appears that the Steelers are trying to get back to that to help combat the explosive, pass-happy league the NFL has become, at least according to Taylor.