The Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense ended the 2024 season on a sour note. They were getting gashed on the ground, and that led to them suffering five-straight losses. While they worked to fix that this offseason, their defense had more of the same issues in Week 1. The New York Jets almost ran for 200 yards as a team against them. Luckily, the Steelers still won the game, but James Harrison wasn’t thrilled with their defensive performance.
“We gotta be able to stop the run,” Harrison said Monday on his Deebo and Joe podcast. “I was not impressed or happy with how our d-line was playing, how the whole defense was playing.