Pittsburgh Steelers' offense reaches a low that even Matt Canada managed to avoid
The Matt Canada era of Pittsburgh Steelers offense was one of the worst in franchise history. So bad that it caused the team to make an unpreceded in season firing, surely it couldn't get much worse with a former HC as OC and a Super Bowl-winning QB right? Wrong… Steelers score 17 points or less […]
The Matt Canada era of Pittsburgh Steelers offense was one of the worst in franchise history.
So bad that it caused the team to make an unpreceded in season firing, surely it couldn't get much worse with a former HC as OC and a Super Bowl-winning QB right?
Wrong…
Steelers score 17 points or less for fourth consecutive game
“It wasn’t that long ago when people were like, ‘Are they gonna give Russell Wilson the Baker Mayfield contract?’ Would they even want Russell Wilson back for like $10 million? You watch him against Joe Burrow, it would be like going to a high school game where one kid’s going to Texas or Ohio State and the other guy is just going to college to study and never going to play organized football again in his life," said former NFL scout John Middlekauff on his 3 & Out Podcast…
"…Anytime he throws to these wide receivers, it’s just outside the numbers. Let it rip. That’s not really going to work. You can’t re-sign this player. You cannot resign Russell Wilson to anything of value. If you wanna give him like five, seven million to be a bridge quarterback, I guess you can live with that.”
The Steelers offense is a shell of itself compared to just a few weeks ago. The same Cincinnati Bengals defense that held Pittsburgh to 17 points and Russell Wilson to less than 150 yards passing on Saturday, let him go for over 400 yards and 40+ points a few weeks earlier.
Whether it's Arthur Smith's scheme or Russell Wilson's regression, the Steelers offense has gone ice cold at the worst time possible. They now head into Baltimore as heavy underdogs after dropping four in a row and with questions about who should start at QB.
Yet, if you listen to the players including Russell Wilson, it's like all the sins of the past four games are absolved because they made the postseason:
"I really…I don't really have a… I think what I want to say is…I don't really want to talk about the past just because I think, we've been in that," said Wilson after the Bengals game. "We've been in that for a little bit here. I think the best thing we can do is get ready for the playoffs. It's a new season. That's the only thing that really matters anymore at this point, right? The reality is, obviously us winning that game would have helped us in some form or fashion, but, at the end of the day, we got into the playoffs, everybody's got to beat everybody anyway, and that's got to be our focus right now."
Steelers get exactly what they ask for following the official unveiling of Super Wild Card Weekend opponent
Probably the best-case scenario.
