Hello everyone, welcome to Charlotte, North Carolina. I'm Dan Kovachvich. He's Chris Halle. We're from D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. Final score, Steelers 19, Panthers 10, final preseason game. Final assessments.

Oh, um. And thanks for watching everybody.

Yeah, it was a bit of a dud.

Yeah, they won.

That's great and all, but man, that, that start was really, really rough.

Um, a lot of miss tackles, a lot of penalties.

A lot of penalties. A lot of penalties.

Zach Frazier holding call in the very first play from scrimmage.

Even before then, on the kickoff return to start the game, the Steelers had a penalty.

13 penalties for 104 yards.

That's just, I mean, when you talk about, like, what they were talking about going into that first preseasoning game in Jacksonville, the cleanliness of play, and they looked really clean. Yeah. It was not tonight. It was bad all around. Penalties, missed tackles, everything. It was just bad. It wasn't pretty. And the players spoke about this openly just now downstairs. It wasn't, they didn't talk really as much, at least not to me,

about penalties. It was, it was more, there was mentioned of the mistackles. They didn't like

some of the stuff that happened at the line of scrimmage. They couldn't have been crazy

about the way the offense went early on. And that's where I want to start today, Chris, because

when I see things in both the Jacksonville and the Tampa Bay games where I say, all right, that looks like something, you can work with that.

This felt like from the first team perspective, a bit of a backward step. Now, I tried to bring this up with the head coach. That didn't go well at all.

Mike, what's, uh, I know there's a lot of different variables when it comes to the run game,

but what's missing right now? The hole's not there. They're not being hit, slipping.

I mean, we what, 18 for 99? Sure. So what do you want to? I'm sorry. I meant earlier in the game

when you have more of your first teamers out there.

The game is 60 minutes.

Yeah, and he would end up saying additional things after the press conference was over.

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