The Steelers offense has endured growing pains all season and that continued Sunday against the Seahawks. Part of the inconsistencies has been due to the offense being forced into long third-down situations.
This is something coach Mike Tomlin has addressed the past few weeks. A theme all season has been trying to get the team in shorter yard-to-go situations. Beyond the obvious inefficiencies on early downs, the reasoning for that has also been due to penalties. Tomlin talked about those Tuesday in something the team needs to clean up on their bye week.
”Offensively, we’ve got to clean up penalties and specifically pre-snap penalties.