The vaunted Steelers defense? The Cardinals exposed the Steelers Achilles heal last February and others have been doing it all year… Passing at will. Look, Pittsburgh can still defend the run, but why even try to run the Steelers when throwing is just soooo easy.
The question, “how can Troy make such a huge difference to this defense?” has been asked innumerable times and I think I finally have the answer.
He doesn’t.
Don’t get me wrong, Troy is our best defender, but he hardly makes this an elite pass defense. Rather he takes the Steelers from terrible to marginal, but that difference is significant because all we needed for this season to have been drastically different are a couple extra stops per game. Do you really think that either KC or Oakland carves us up in the fourth quarter with Troy in there? Me neither.
The bottom line is this is a unit with some major holes and those holes have been exposed.
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