Fixing Run Defense Goes Beyond Finding A New Mack

There are a lot of problems with the Pittsburgh Steelers defense. That is unfortunately the only thing that anybody wants to focus on now, ignoring all of the positives that there are as well. We just saw a season in which they recorded more sacks than they ever have in their history, but the virtual consensus seems to be that everybody except perhaps John Mitchell should already be in Cleveland.

That said, there are real problems, and they need to be addressed this offseason. For starters, how do you play effective run defense if you don’t have Ryan Shazier? Because they clearly were not prepared for that down the stretch. Even though they did not allow a lot of chunk plays, they were…