The Pittsburgh Steelers performed poorly towards the Indianapolis Colts. There’s no denying that. Their offense began sluggish and received in its personal means too many instances. Their protection received beat up and pushed round. Towards a staff lacking a number of starters on offense, the Steelers’ protection ought to have had a a lot better day. As an alternative, they put collectively a junior-varsity effort with Joe Flacco carving them up. DeShon Elliott believes the Steelers beat themselves this week by not working onerous sufficient.
In accordance to Brian Batko of the Pittsburgh Publish-Gazette, Elliott mentioned after the sport that the Steelers have to work tougher going ahead. Batko made it clear that Elliott wasn’t saying that the Steelers had gotten stuffed with themselves as a result of they had been undefeated however that he looks like they didn’t pay sufficient consideration to particulars.
That would clearly be seen throughout the recreation too. The Steelers misplaced the turnover battle and made numerous psychological errors. They beat themselves simply as a lot because the Colts beat them. That they had blown alternatives all through the sport. Whether or not it was dropping interceptions, not falling on fumbles, fumbling themselves, or not executing appropriately, the Steelers had been their very own worst enemy.
You might say that each recreation the Steelers have performed on this yr has seemed ugly, however it appeared to be a model of ugliness that the Steelers had been controlling. They didn’t appear to panic. Towards the Colts, they appeared to panic usually. Justin Fields bounced again properly after a brutal fumble, however the recreation basically ended due to a mistake he can share the blame for.
The Steelers appeared to settle in additional throughout the second half, however they shouldn’t have been in that scenario within the first place. Taking part in towards a 39-year-old backup quarterback ought to’ve made this recreation a lot simpler for the Steelers’ protection. That they had been terrorizing opposing groups this season, however they let Flacco lead the Colts to 27 factors.
We’ll see if the Steelers come out subsequent week with a hearth lit underneath them. This might need been a wake-up name they wanted primarily based on what Elliott mentioned. Mike Tomlin doesn’t need his gamers to get snug, and it seems like they’re going to have an uncomfortable week forward. It’s nonetheless early within the yr, so there’s loads of time for them to get again on observe. They had been all the time going to lose ultimately. It’s simply unlucky that it needed to be on this vogue.
