Sanity check. Over the past 18 regular season games, dating back to the Saints game in week 10 / 2022, the Steelers record is 13-5. Additionally they went 3-0 in the 2023 preseason. Only the Chiefs have more regular season victories over that period. Are most of the victories nail biters ? Hell yeah ! Are we all having heart attacks in the last 2 minutes most games ? Yep ! Has this been Steelers football for so many years ? Basically ! Is there room for improvement ? Big time ! But those who are beating on the regular whipping boys after each loss and even each win should sit up and check the facts and be glad we have a winning team. Here we go…
I stand by the fact that good teams/coaches rely on their teams talent more often than not to do the heavy lifting during the regular season and then pull out all the stops in the postseason. Sadly our coaching regime likes to rely on the former regardless of the day
Sanity check.
There is little that is “sane” about our record over the last 18.
Hopefully we can continue this unlikely run to the SB (or at least a playoff win).
Speaking of sane it drives me nuts that the only thing keeping us from being juggernauts is literally a mid quality passing game. Our new OLine situation is running the ball down peoples throats and if we could consistently get QB play of even ~250yds 1td 0int in the process we go deep in the playoffs.
We also have to figure out how to STOP the run and how to not give up big pass plays so often. But the defense tightens in the red zone, so despite the big plays they save us almost every game. Too many injuries !
Both of these things are true:
- If we’d beaten the Jaguars, currently we would have the #1 seed.
- According to the best statistical models, our team is slightly worse than the historical average team.