Watch Ben Rotlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers (6-5-1) head to Minnesota on Thursday night to take on the Vikings (5-7) live on Sky Sports NFL from 13.20am Friday morning.
The Pittsburgh Steelers don’t seem to be going anywhere. Nor Ben Rotlisberger. Not yet.
TJ Watt has had an incredible year of Pittsburgh passing, leading the NFL with 16 sacks, and even being cited as a potential league MVP contender, but elsewhere, defense has slipped from the top three in all major categories last season to 22nd in amount. defense, 21st in defense performance and 28th in this campaign.
In defeat to the Bengals, it was in the running defense where they were cut through, with a total of 198 yards. The performance sparked a splash from former Steelers defender Ryan Clarke, the 2008 Super Bowl winner with the team, at ESPN: “Absolutely no physical form,” he said. “There is no energy in defense. There are no tonics.
“Pittsburgh football is not fun. Pittsburgh football is all about dominating the people on the pitch due to its physical form.
“But that’s not what you all want. All you want is to appear, and you all want to live on the back of legends. “
Clark’s assessment went viral, and it didn’t seem entirely justified when sophomore Chase Claypool then suggested that “music would help” make training more fun ahead of last week’s huge division match against the Baltimore Ravens.
After all, this is a team that suffered four out of five losses and ended last season, during which Claypool’s fellow Juja Smith-Shuster was criticized for annoying opponents by creating TikTok dance videos on the field before the game.
Steelers’ defensive end Cameron Hayward raged at Claypool’s proposal, saying, “I hope he was joking because as soon as he said that, I was literally going to rip out the speaker.
“This is not what we need right now. It’s X and O and execution. “
