Are the Steelers defense running a new defense this year?

That's what it sounds like when we talk to guys in the locker room, despite them having the same defensive coordinator.

I'm Chris Carter. This is the Locked on Steelers podcast.

We'll talk about that with Nick Farabal.

Let's get into it.

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And then there's others where the guys are like, that obviously needs work, right?

Like the run defense against running backs way better this week.

But then again, the third down struggles and some of the past defense struggles, those popped up.

You love the opportunistic defense.

But there's like a giving a take, right? Same with the offense. Like in terms of down-to-down success wasn't necessarily there. But the red zone offense and the short yardage, really good. Like there's a lot of positives and then there's a negative offset. That's kind of what it felt like. And so I think this team is trying to kind of round itself into form and learn while winning

and that's always a good thing if you can do it if you can win while you're not playing at 100%

and then you can get up to your a game and start to really really kind of kick it into high gear

that's a different story and that gets you up the playoff rankings fairly quickly if you can do that

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