Pittsburgh Steelers Defense Still a Work-in-Progress in Preseason Week 2 Loss

August 15, 2015   ·   Andrea Hangst   ·   Jump to comments

From the brief glimpse we saw of the key Pittsburgh Steelers offensive starters in Friday night's preseason 23-21 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars, it's clear that side of the ball is able to pick up where it left off in 2014. The defense, though, looked very much like a work-in-progress.
In the first half, when the Steelers' active defensive starters were primarily on the field, the defense allowed 206 total Jaguars yards. While stout against the run as a whole, allowing just 47 run yards on 13 carries, for a 3.6 yards-per-carry average, there were sloppy tackling attempts that resulted in numerous Jaguars runs chewing up far too much yardage for comfort.
The Steelers defense gave up six runs of four or more yards—two four-yard runs, two five-yard runs and a 10-yard run by Jacksonville's one-two punch of Denard Robinson and Toby Gerhart, plus another six-yard gain by third-stringer Bernard Pierce.
But most notable were the struggles of the Steelers pass defen...

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