One day after Christmas, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense found itself between a rock and a hard place against the Kansas City Chiefs and star quarterback Patrick Mahomes on the road inside Arrowhead Stadium.
Send pressure Mahomes’ way? He’d get the football out quickly to his plethora of playmakers. Sit back in zone defense? Mahomes picked apart Pittsburgh’s soft zones. No matter what the Steelers tried to do defensively, it didn’t work as Mahomes had all the time in the world to pick apart Pittsburgh’s defense, driving the Chiefs up and down the field to the tune of 30 points before taking a seat on the bench, allowing backup quarterback Chad Henne to put up two other field goal drives (one on a very short field) in a 36-10 loss.