PITTSBURGH -- For the second week in a row, the league's highest-paid defense gave up more than 30 points, marking the first time since 2002 the Steelers have given up at least 30 points in each of their first two games of a season.
That defense, the one with six former first-round picks -- five active on Sunday -- allowed back-to-back 100-yard rushers, too.
And the league's highest paid non-quarterback -- at least until Micah Parsons inked his deal in Green Bay -- failed to record a sack in either game.
Unlike a week ago, the Steelers' offense couldn't keep pace, magnifying the persistent flaws in a once-vaunted defense as the Steelers fell to the Seattle Seahawks 31-17 in the home opener.