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DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK's Daily Shot of Steelers: A defensive disgrace

DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK Pittsburgh Sports

Hockey, Steelers, Penguins, Football, Nfl, Matt Williamson, Nhl, Pittsburgh, Mlb, Baseball, Dejan Kovacevic, Dk Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Penguin, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sports, Pirates

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Pittsburgh Steelers gave up 41 points for the second week in a row, this time to the division-foe Cincinnati Bengals. The biggest thing that stood out amongst the poor play on both sides of the field was the inability/unwillingness to make even the simplest of tackles. Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.

0:07.0

What a fantastic night of football.

0:10.0

Including 10 Premier League games.

0:13.0

It doesn't get much better than that.

0:17.0

And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.

0:22.3

The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.

0:28.0

It's on Prime.

0:33.4

Oh, it's different when it's the defense. It is different. Good morning to you. Good Monday morning. I'm Day on Kovachvich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

0:47.8

And this is daily shot of Steelers. It comes your way bright and early every weekday morning, and it comes to you on this day from Cincinnati.

1:01.8

Scene of Bengals 41 Steelers 10. If I wasn't in Paul Brown Stadium to Carliners 10. If I wasn't in Paul Brown Stadium to cover it, I'm not sure that I would have

1:17.7

believed it. And yet, at the same time, saddest of all, there's no reason to not believe it.

1:30.2

Because for as much as we have all focused and fussed on the flaws of the offense,

1:38.6

and not without cause, the one thing that also was true through this entire season to this stage

1:49.7

is that the defense never got back to where it was a year ago. There have been different events that at times felt like a cause for faith,

2:09.1

probably most notably in Orchard Park with the way they handled Josh Allen and Stefan

2:16.9

Diggs and the Bills.

2:20.2

And in fairness, they had a full, almost full defensive line in that they had Cam Hayward

2:30.0

and Tyson Alulahoo obviously haven't had Steph on to it the entire time.

2:36.3

But the defense has never gotten back to where it was last year, much less the year before.

2:45.4

And at first we kind of didn't mind because it was just, well, they're not getting takeaways, but takeaways are luck, and takeaways will eventually come around.

2:54.7

And then the takeaways never came.

2:58.0

And then it was like, well, it's not that important because, you know, these low-scoring

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