Ordinarily when you’re heading into a bye week, you have at most one loss to mull over. Because the Pittsburgh Steelers are only on a ‘mini-bye’ following a Thursday night game, they face a situation in which they are coming off of two losses in the same week.
That’s a lot to think about. And different players had different responses about what that extra time they will have will mean for the team going forward, particularly those on defense chiming in as they stew over giving up another lead.
“This one is going to be on the pot simmering for a while”, defensive captain Cameron Heyward told reporters from the locker room last night, via team transcripts.