After an unsightly Pittsburgh Steelers loss, the perfect I can give you is a few bizarre. That…in all probability doesn’t assist.
– Falling to the Philadelphia Eagles 27-13 is the Steelers’ largest defeat of the season. That they had misplaced their different three video games by a mixed 11 factors.
– By now, you’ve heard the stat about Pittsburgh not successful in Philadelphia since 1965. That’s now not “bizarre.” However what you haven’t heard almost as a lot is how uncompetitive these video games have been.
Within the Mike Tomlin period, the Steelers have been outscored by the Eagles in Philadelphia by a mixed rating of 111-35, a differential of 76 factors throughout 4 video games. Pittsburgh hasn’t scored greater than 13 factors in any of these contests. The Steelers have misplaced by margins of 31, 22, 14, and 9 factors. So all by a couple of possession.
– Off the highest, essentially the most putting stat. Pittsburgh’s offense ran simply 41 performs in opposition to Philadelphia. Since 1965, it’s the fourth-fewest snaps the Steelers have had in any regular-season recreation. It’s their fewest since a 1991 loss to the Seattle Seahawks when the crew additionally ran 41 performs in a 27-7 defeat. The 2 video games during which Pittsburgh’s run fewer performs had been the 40 it had in a 1990 win over the Atlanta Falcons and a 1973 loss to the Indianapolis Colts.
– Not less than heading into Week 15, the Steelers’ 41 performs had been the fewest of the season within the NFL. The final crew to have so few got here final 12 months when the Cincinnati Bengals ran solely 41 final 12 months in opposition to…the Steelers, a 16-10 Pittsburgh win. Now, the Steelers are on the incorrect aspect of 41.
You would possibly suppose the Eagles’ 77 performs have to be a file. However it’s not even shut. The Cleveland Browns ran 81 in opposition to the Steelers final season. And the Cincinnati Bengals, albeit in additional time, ran 94 the 12 months earlier than. The file is the 99 the Bengals ran in opposition to the Steelers in 2001, one other additional time recreation.
– Pittsburgh completed with simply 10 first downs. It’s solely the fourth time within the Mike Tomlin period they’ve been held to not more than 10, although they’d 9 in final 12 months’s win in opposition to the Cleveland Browns. That they had 10 in a 2019 loss to the Baltimore Ravens that QB Duck Hodges began and 7 in a 2010 win over the Tennessee Titans. A recreation Dennis Dixon began and Charlie Batch completed.
– And another twist of the knife. The Steelers’ 163 whole yards of offense are the crew’s worst output since that above 2010 recreation in opposition to the Titans. One they nonetheless discovered a method to win, 19-11.
It’s the crew’s fewest in a loss since 2006 when the Jacksonville Jaguars shut them out, 9-0. That’s the final season (although not the final recreation) during which the Steelers have been shut out, the second-longest energetic streak solely behind the Baltimore Ravens, who haven’t been shut out since 2002.
– The Eagles completed with 401 yards of whole offense. It’s the time first Pittsburgh’s offense has been held underneath 200 yards whereas the opponent had at the very least 400 because the 1994 season opener when the Dallas Cowboys outgained Pittsburgh 442-126 in a 26-9 win.
– Right here’s the third-down yardage Pittsburgh wanted on its first 5 makes an attempt.
third and seven
third and eight
third and 10
third and 18
third and 18
Pittsburgh did not convert on any of them. No shock. The Steelers completed 3-of-10 on third down. The Eagles? 10-of-17.
– WR Calvin Austin III completed with 5 catches for 65 yards. He made up 35.7 % of the crew’s whole receptions and 50.8 % of the crew’s passing yards.
– Van Jefferson recorded his seventh recreation this season catching one or fewer passes when he logged at the very least 30 offensive snaps. He had one reception for 0 yards Sunday.
Since Professional Soccer Reference started monitoring snap counts in 2012, that’s the second-most by a Steelers receiver. Jefferson solely trails Allen Robinson II and his 9 from a season in the past. Earlier than these two, the “excessive” is a five-way tie of 4 video games (Markus Wheaton, Calvin Austin, James Washington, Steven Sims, and George Pickens).
Which means, Robinson and Jefferson are operating empty routes at a loopy tempo.
Increasing that search leaguewide, Jefferson’s seven video games are tied for 14th-most by any huge receiver with 30-plus snaps since 2012. The file is held by the New Orleans Saints’ Devery Henderson and his 12 set in 2012. Jefferson can’t tie that mark, however he may turn into the fourth participant to succeed in double-digits, becoming a member of Henderson, the Carolina Panthers’ Louis Murphy additionally in 2012, and the Tennessee Titans’ Nick Westbook-Ikhine in 2022.
– A constructive stat! TE Pat Freiermuth has caught a landing in three-straight video games, the primary Steelers tight finish to take action since Heath Miller in Weeks 1-3 of the 2012 season.
If Freiermuth could make it a fourth, he’ll be the crew’s first tight finish since Miller in 2005.
– Whereas the Steelers held RB Saquon Barkley to only 65 yards dashing, the Eagles are 2-0 in Barkley’s two worst dashing performances of the season. Each wins got here in opposition to the AFC North. Barkley had simply 47 yards in a 20-16 Week 6 win over the Cleveland Browns.
– Cordarrelle Patterson’s 33-yard kick return was his longest since 2022.
– T.J. Watt has 33 compelled fumbles since being drafted in 2017. Nobody else has greater than 24 throughout that span.
– Reaching double-digit sacks yesterday, Watt now has 4 profession seasons of 10-plus sacks and at the very least 5 compelled fumbles. Since compelled fumbles had been acknowledged in 1982, Watt has tied the file for many profession 10/5 years. He equaled what Robert Mathis and DeMarcus Ware did over their careers.
Watt broke a tie with the likes of Khalil Mack, Bruce Smith, James Harrison, Julius Peppers, and others.
– Now with 108 profession sacks, Watt is simply exterior the highest 30 on the official listing (since 1982). He wants 1.5 to get there, tying Greg Townsend and Calais Campbell. Price mentioning that Campbell continues to be enjoying so he may additionally transfer up the charts, although Watt will quickly sufficient move him by.
Watt sit three sacks shy of tying Aaron Donald’s profession mark.
– Watt recorded his twenty fifth recreation of two-plus sacks yesterday, tied for essentially the most of any energetic participant. That might’ve given him sole possession of first place had it not been for Cam Jordan additionally recording two sacks Sunday for the New Orleans Saints. Kinda loopy.
– Regardless of the loss, the Steelers received the turnover battle 2-1. They’re now plus-18 on the season, the crew’s greatest mark since 1972 when it completed plus-22. The franchise file is plus-23 set in 1936.
– Pittsburgh has received the turnover battle in three of their 4 losses this 12 months. They received it 3-1 in opposition to the Cleveland Browns and Dallas Cowboys.
– The Eagles’ remaining drive of the sport was a 21-play march to bleed the ultimate 10:39 of the sport, gaining 88 yards. It’s the ninth 21-plus play drive since 2001 and the primary in opposition to the Steelers. Pittsburgh had an offensive one in 2022 in opposition to the Carolina Panthers.
Philadelphia’s is the primary crew to finish a recreation that approach. Beforehand, the longest drive to finish a recreation in a win was the Cincinnati Bengals’ 17 in 2022 and the New England Patriots in 2002. The previous began by Joe Burrow, the latter by Tom Brady. Brady known as yesterday’s recreation.
The Denver Broncos ended a 2019 recreation with a 19-play drive however that was in a failed try to win the sport, not them bleeding the clock the way in which the Eagles did. The Carolina Panthers additionally had an 18-play drive in 2019 in opposition to the Inexperienced Bay Packers in a 24-16 loss. That recreation was began by present Steelers third-string QB Kyle Allen.
– Lastly, the Steelers’ recorded 92 whole tackles yesterday. The Eagles had simply 39. A whopping 23 Steelers recorded at the very least one sort out. Simply 15 Eagles gamers did.
