Despite giving up 30-plus points and nearly 400 yards, Juan Thornhill still believes the Steelers can have one of the best defenses of all time. In theory, he’s right, but that’s equally true of every other team in the league every year. After one game, it looks like they may have overestimated themselves. But they can certainly—one hopes, at least—play much better than they showed in the opener.
“We were getting gashed in the running game and that was very obvious”, Thornhill admitted, via Teresa Varley for the Steelers’ website. “It will be something that we’ll emphasize this week, but I’m not really panicked at all”.