Mike Tomlin summed up his team's performance in its opener Sunday night in New England pretty succinctly Tuesday.
"We laid an egg," Tomlin said of the Steelers' performance in a 33-3 loss to the Patriots.
Nowhere was that more apparent than in short-yardage situations, as the Steelers failed in four of those instances in a little more than a quarter of game time that largely led directly to the 30-point defeat.
The Steelers ran the ball twice and passed on the other two, failing to utilize a short-yardage package on any of those possessions that included fullback Roosevelt Nix.