This defense may have the talent and potential to do “historic” things, as Mike Tomlin put it, but potential is meaningless until it’s realized on Sundays. The Pittsburgh Steelers very nearly lost their Week 1 game, and blame would have fallen squarely on their $162.8 million defense.
T.J. Watt discussed what went wrong and how they can correct it on 102.5 WDVE’s Morning Show with Randy Baumann.
“It’s just getting back to doing our job,” Watt said. “Each individual guy doing our job, so collectively we can play as fast and as fluid as we want to.