There are many fans and media analysts who are surprised to see the Pittsburgh Steelers entering Week 13 of the season with a 7-4 record and holding the top Wild-Card seed in the AFC.
Multiple media personalities, like ESPN’s Mike Greenberg have criticized the Steelers as a pretender, seeing how bad they have been playing on offense and how that doesn’t match up with their winning record. The scoring offense ranks 28th in the league and while the defense ranks fifth in points allowed, the Steelers sit at 25th in football in yards allowed as they have surrendered large amounts of yardage albeit while doing a good job of keeping opponents out of the end zone.