Is this the worst Steeler defense in your lifetime?

That's correct. Tomczak started the game and was ineffective so Cowher switched to Stewart at halftime and he was even worse.

 

Back then they could win the statistics and lose the game

 

Here is the greatest of all time.

 

I'll wait for the end of the season to declare such a thing. There's like 10 games left and a small chance they can figure this out. But the trajectory is awful and the last 14 is just as gloomy. Tomlin, Austin and the highest paid defense need to figure this out.

 

Probably Noll's defense in his 1st year, 1969, was the worst, 404 points allowed for a 14 game schedule? 1968 was bad too under Bill Austin. But those were total rebuilding years.

this may be the worst since that time. And we were supposed to make a playoff run?! Its just time for Austin and Tomlin to go. Whether Rooney wants to accept that or not i think it’s pretty obvious.

 

The defense is so bad the Steelers might need to get cheerleaders so the fans have something to watch.

 

Seems like it. I was a bit checked out in the 80s but we had some bad defenses in there as well.

 

When were they called soft and cheesy?

 

It is right up there as the worst, late 60's were pretty weak also.

 

To be fair. Back in the day defenses were allowed to be much more aggressive. Defenses in the NFL today are forced to be soft.

 

As Chuck Noll said; stats are for the losing team.

 

Yeah and Noll has the other 3

 

Heyward is a fraud. Watt is good, but past his prime.

 

It’s. Pt even that his is one of the worst Steelers Defenses that is the most upsetting to me. It’s the fact we have been having these same problems for years and they don’t get fixed. The fact Tomlin is incapable of accepting responsibility for this is so frustrating. We’re doing what we always do … throw another body at it as if that is the antidote with the Dugger signing. Tomlinson defenses can’t stop the run and the pass … they can only do one or the other. It’s been like this fora while v

 

That kicker penalty.....ugh

 

Cowher did way more with way less. I don't think a Cowher led team collapses in 09, loses to Tebow in the postseason, Jags in 2017. They have at least one more SB win for sure.

 

To be fair, the defense may end up historic....

 

I’ve had a season ticket for 56 seasons

I don’t need cheerleaders to watch

But you be you

 

Yeah, but historic in a bad way unfortunately.

 

My point exactly lol