The Pittsburgh Steelers lost 13 to 6 to the Browns in a way where they had several opportunities to clinch the division, and now it comes down to a week 18 matchup with the Ravens.

Who's most at fault? I'll talk about it here on the Lockdown Steelers podcast. Let's get into.

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Steelers fans, it is not a victory Monday because the Steelers did not pull out the win over the Cleveland Brown.

They lost 13 to 6 in Cleveland.

Their third, fourth, fourth straight year losing there.

They haven't won since 2021.

Yeah, so fourth straight year losing to the Browns in Cleveland.

It continues to be a bit of a house of horrors for the Steelers.

And you're looking around, you're looking to blame things because you're angry. Listen, I get it. Fans are definitely mad about this one. And this was a game that the Steelers had very much in their hands. They checked off a lot of the boxes that we talked about that they needed to check in this game. A, they need to be efficient running the ball. They weren't efficient enough, but Jaylen Warren did average over five yards per carry. They needed to shut down the Brown's run game so that they didn't make things easier for Schroderer Sanders. They did that. 11 carries for 27 yards, less than three yards per carry for Dylan Samson. Their backup running back, less than three yards per carry for him as well. Running Brown's running backs weren't out a factor in this game. They needed to create turnovers. They did that. Two interceptions on Shador Sanders, one by Kyle Dugger, one by Jack Sawyer. Granted, a drop pick six from Nick Herbick, which could have flipped the game in the Steelers' favor and maybe even won the game for the Steelers. But you can't be too mad at a defense that shuts out a team for three quarters of play. It only gives up, what, 13? Well, again, they did shut them out, but there are two quarters of play, and they give a field goal because the offense basically handed them the ball in the fourth quarter at the 20-yard line. But you can look at the offense, and you can ask what happened here. Now, we can get into the D.K. Metcalf stuff and the suspension, especially since now there's new evidence that was brought to light by Jake Glazer. We'll talk about that later. Let's talk about what didn't happen on the field for the Steelers. And that was that the passing game never was able to take off. And the times that it did take off, it went to the players that I thought they should have been using the whole time. And this to me does come down to game planning. It does come down to execution. And it does come down to

who does Aaron Rogers target in certain moments. It seemed like that when the Steelers were

trying to go to Marquezvild is Scanling, who finished the game with the most targets, nine on

the day. He only had three catches for 21 yards. Two of those targets came in the end zone on third and fourth in goal when the game was

on the line. The Steelers absolutely had to have a touchdown. The passing offense was non-existent

for pretty much the entire game outside of the end of the first half when they started to hit on

some quick passes to try to get the ball down the field

and getting field goal range for Chris Boswell and the end of the second half when they were

trying to get the ball down the field again to get in touchdown range and what was the key to

that second half they started hitting Pat Firemoot who was their best receiving threat when

DK Metcalf isn't on the field we've known this for a while Kenneth gainwell is also a receiving threat when D.K. Metcalf isn't on the field. We've known this for a while.

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