Steelers’ Defense on the Brink: One Game Away from Shattering Franchise Sack Record—Can They Seal the Deal?
The Steelers’ defense stumbled out of the gate in the first two weeks, looking more like a flimsy shower curtain than the legendary Steel Curtain we all remember — conceding 65 points and barely mustering 1.5 sacks per game. But wow, have they turned the tide since then! The Swashbuckling defense has clamped down hard, giving up fewer than 15 points on average and racking up a whopping 17 sacks in the last three outings. Here’s the kicker: Pittsburgh’s never, not once in 62 years, pulled off four straight games with five or more sacks — not even in the glory days of the ’70s. Tomorrow night, that historic chance against the Bengals is within reach, with T.J. Watt finally waking up from his early-season slumber to grab 3.5 sacks in the recent trio of games. It’s a sizzling storyline that’s impossible to ignore, promising drama, grit, and a dash of history in the making.
In Week 1 and Week 2, the Steel Curtain defense looked more like a shower curtain, allowing 65 total points and averaging only 1.5 sacks per game. Since then, the Pittsburgh defense has looked more like its old self, with fewer than 15 points per game allowed and 17 total sacks.
The Steelers have had at least five sacks in each of the last three games. Per NBC Sports research, the Steelers have never put together a string of four straight games with five or more sacks in team history.
It covers a 62-year span; even though individual sacks became an official statistic in 1982, the NFL began tracking team sacks in 1963. Which means that none of the great Steelers defenses of the ‘70s went four games in a row with five or more sacks.
On Thursday night, the Steelers can do it for the first time ever against the Bengals.
Linebacker T.J. Watt has 3.5 of the sacks from the last three games, after going without a single sacks in the first two weeks of the season.
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