Steelers Now
PITTSBURGH — If games were decided after two quarters, the Pittsburgh Steelers would be 8-4. Unfortunately for Mike Tomlin’s team, which has coughed up four halftime leads, games last four frames.
Tomlin explained what’s gone wrong in the latter half for the Steelers this season after his side gave up 23 unanswered points in the final half hour of a 26-7 home loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday evening.
“Not putting together 60 minutes of action,” Tomlin said. “Certainly, there are some tangible things, things that you and I both see, but we’d better look at it and look at it hard because there’s usually something beneath the surface that’s producing that, particularly in the consistency with which it is occurring. The third quarter was awful. It was awful last week. So, we’ve got to absorb the responsibility of that.”
Along with being up 7-3 on the Bills, the Steelers were also ahead at halftime of their losses to the Seattle Seahawks (14-7), Green Bay Packers (16-7) and Chicago Bears (21-17). Quarterback Aaron Rodgers pushed back on the idea that there isn’t enough being done, adjustments-wise, at the midway point.
“There’s not a whole lot that happens at halftime,” Rodgers said. “There are conversations between myself and the linemen and conversations from position coaches, and coordinators talk, but there’s not wholesale changes that need or should be made at halftime. There are little adjustments that you talk about, things you like, openers for the second half.
“But players, we’ve got to take accountability for our performance.”
This article originally appeared on Steelers Now: 2nd-Half Woes Continue to Infect Stumbling Steelers
