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.