Steelers should be completely embarrassed by latest NFL award
I usually don't pay a lot of attention to weekly NFL awards, but there was an award announced this week that should be embarrassing to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen was named the AFC offensive player of the week after throwing for 424 yards and four touchdowns in a 38-3 win against […]
I usually don't pay a lot of attention to weekly NFL awards, but there was an award announced this week that should be embarrassing to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen was named the AFC offensive player of the week after throwing for 424 yards and four touchdowns in a 38-3 win against the Steelers this past Sunday. Allen also rushed for 42 yards.
It's not embarrassing that Allen won the award against the Steelers. He's a great player who might end up being the NFL MVP this year.
What's embarrassing is that Allen won the award and threw for over 400 yards despite only throwing one pass in the fourth quarter.
Allen started the fourth quarter, led the Bills to a touchdown, and then handed the offense over to backup quarterback Case Keenum for the rest of the game.
If this isn't rock bottom for the Steelers, I don't know what is.
Giving up that many yards to a quarterback in essentially just three quarters of action isn't what a contender does. It's not even what a fringe playoff team does. This is what happens to bad teams.
And right now, it's hard to view Pittsburgh as anything other than a "bad team".
Week six against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is do-or-die time for the Steelers. If Pittsburgh loses that game, the Steelers will fall to 1-5 and Mike Tomlin will almost certainly suffer his first losing season as a head coach.
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