The Pittsburgh Steelers have a prideful defense, historically. They haven’t been playing anything like it in recent weeks. And it’s got everybody dadgum ticked off, including their defensive coordinator, Keith Butler. Injuries have limited what they are able to do, but even beyond that, there is no simple fix.
“There’s no great defense that covers everything. There are none”, the defensive coordinator said on Thursday, via transcript. “You hope you can run some stuff that your guys can do and help them out and stuff like that, but no. We’ve got to play, we’ve got to be more physical.