Heading into Week 13, the Steelers defense leads the NFL in three key categories: They have the most sacks (41), the most takeaways (23) and they've also given up the fewest points (188). The reason that's notable is that since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, no defense has ever finished the season as the leader in all three of those categories. For defenses, this is basically the triple crown.
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Master_Of_Puppets
Posts : 1515 Join date : 2011-04-08
Subject: Re: steelers 2020 defense Sat Dec 05, 2020 4:36 pm
Heading into Week 13, the Steelers defense leads the NFL in three key categories: They have the most sacks (41), the most takeaways (23) and they've also given up the fewest points (188). The reason that's notable is that since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, no defense has ever finished the season as the leader in all three of those categories. For defenses, this is basically the triple crown.
imagine if they could stop giving up those 3rd and longs ... ...for some reason im more confident they will stop a 3rd and 3 than i am that they will stop a 3rd and 13 ..
LambertWardSteel
Posts : 1260 Join date : 2015-05-14 Location : Myerstown PA
Subject: Re: steelers 2020 defense Sun Dec 06, 2020 2:07 am
Heading into Week 13, the Steelers defense leads the NFL in three key categories: They have the most sacks (41), the most takeaways (23) and they've also given up the fewest points (188). The reason that's notable is that since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, no defense has ever finished the season as the leader in all three of those categories. For defenses, this is basically the triple crown.
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IowaSteeler927
Posts : 4357 Join date : 2015-04-11 Location : The Great State of Iowa
Subject: Re: steelers 2020 defense Tue Dec 08, 2020 6:28 am
Defense definitely isn't an issue with this team. If we had an offense that wasn't Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde week in and week out we'd be an unstoppable force.
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solardave
Posts : 5069 Join date : 2011-09-30 Location : State of Confusion
Subject: Re: steelers 2020 defense Tue Dec 08, 2020 6:48 am
Defense definitely isn't an issue with this team. If we had an offense that wasn't Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde week in and week out we'd be an unstoppable force.
I agree but here's the thing. If we don't start playing sound on offense what we'll have is last years really good,really tired defense trying to win games for us. Labriola sums it up pretty good here:
Posts : 1216 Join date : 2015-05-13 Location : Stella City
Subject: Re: steelers 2020 defense Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:39 am
The injuries are piling up on the D. If Spillane doesn't get injured I believe we still would have won, but not having Bush/Spillane and Nelson and Haden really cost us. Without Bush/Spillane teams will feed their pass-catching RB like Washington did with McKinnick. It's an easy mismatch to exploid when you don't have a fast ILB.
...for some reason im more confident they will stop a 3rd and 3 than i am that they will stop a 3rd and 13 .. 
