The Pittsburgh Steelers finished the 2018 season with a 9-6-1 record, which was good for the seventh-best in the AFC. Needless to say, that wasn’t good enough to qualify for the postseason, given that they did not post the best record in their own division, as occasionally happens with teams with .500 records or worse.
So many things went wrong for this team at inopportune times. They got off to a bad start, then finished as a crawling pace in spite of a big victory over the New England Patriots that nearly cost Tom Brady and company a first-round bye.