Fixing Steelers’ Defense Won’t Require ‘Dramatic’ Scheme Changes, Says Tomlin

Mike Tomlin Teryl Austin defenseThe Pittsburgh Steelers expected to be historic on defense, but through seven games they look more historically bad than anything else. They’ve allowed more than 30 points and over 400 total yards in back-to-back games, and the Steelers are just not going to contend for anything other than a higher draft slot next April until that is fixed. In doing so, Mike Tomlin isn’t expecting to make any major changes.

“You don’t want those plays to happen, but they happen,” Tomlin said Tuesday during his weekly press conference while referring to broken plays the Steelers allowed Sunday to Tucker Kraft and Christian Watson. “I didn’t think we did a good enough job…