“Quite frankly, screw third down”, Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator Randy Fichtner told reporters yesterday during his media availability portion yesterday, via a transcript of the pool interview provided by the team’s media department.
He could have been talking about the offense’s abysmal performance on Sunday against the New England Patriots, during which they only converted on third down successfully three times out of 12 opportunities (although that doesn’t include two third downs converted via penalty).
He wasn’t, though. He wasn’t happy at all with the way his unit performed when they got to third down, but where he was really unhappy was the fact that they put themselves in so many situations in which they had to convert on third down.