The most obvious thing that can be said about tonight’s preseason game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Carolina Panthers would be that it was ugly for the road team. The Steelers entered the contest having gone 3-0 in their first three exhibition games, but you certainly wouldn’t know it based on what transpired on the field.
It very much felt like a team playing its fourth preseason game facing a team playing its third preseason game. But we already knew that that was exactly what it was. Largely, the Panthers played their starters on both sides of the ball.