T.J. Watt offers a hopeless response to a question about what has gone wrong for the Steelers’ defense in recent weeks
T.J. Watt was left speechless when it came to the Steelers showing against the Bills.
Somehow, some way, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense, but in particular the run defense, continued to regress on Sunday. Despite drafting and bringing in personnel designed to better defend against the run, the Steelers let a depleted Buffalo Bills offense rush for almost 250 yards.
Sure, part of that was due to some injuries suffered during the game, but it was clear that Buffalo had a game plan, stuck to it and dared the Steelers to adjust to try and stop it. Only they didn’t. It was the same thing over and over, yet in the words of T.J. Watt, the Steelers just couldn’t make the plays that were there to be made.
T.J. Watt left speechless following the Steelers’ defensive performance against Bills
“Play-making is what sets things off. Not making plays, it sucks. We need to find ways to be able to make plays,” said Watt after the loss vs. Buffalo via the Steelers’ YouTube channel. I mean I’ve never seen a team run the same play as much as the Bills ran it tonight and have as much success as they had. I mean, I’m out of words for it. We talk about the talent that we have, we talk about everything that we have, but right now we don’t have a kick ass defensive group, and that’s all that I can speak on.”
Just last week you heard T.J. Watt sit through a dejected presser and try give an explanation to what went wrong against the Bears. But this week was different, and perhaps worse. Watt wasn’t angry this week. He didn’t sit up there looking like he was ready to play another game and rip someone’s heads off.
No, this week he look battered. He looked tired and sad. Not just physically, but emotionally and mentally. And it came out in his responses. Because he’s right. When a team runs a concept as simple as duo, meaning a run play where the offensive line double teams the defensive line and moves up to the second level, and you still can’t stop it, there isn’t much to say. That just comes down to being flat-out beat.
For a defense that is paid not only to be among the best in the league, but has some of the best names in football among the front seven, or at least what once was some of the best, getting flat out beat shouldn’t be an option.
Yet here the Steelers are.
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