To be fair McDermott never got his big nickel that made his defense in Carolina dangerous. I like Taron but his small size coupled with the size of Bernard and Milano does hurt the rush defense. It's a double edged sword as our secondary is top notch and said in the game thread but Rapp has been great this season with open field tackles to stop possible TDs but even he can't stop them all.
The Lions are averaging about 3 points more than us per game, question is who is he bringing to coach the defense? Change for change sake alone doesn't mean things will get better as we learned from moving the defense away from Schwartz to Ryan.
Nope. I didn't live through the 70s killing but it reminded me of the Patriots domination with Brady and feels great that we the one killing the division again like we did in the early 90s which I did live through.
There's been reports that we did try to trade up with an unknown team (many surmise it was Houston) in an effort to get Big Ben but they balked. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/3057082/2022/01/27/ben-roethlisbergers-path-from-nearly-a-bill-and-starting-in-a-hurricane-to-steelers-legend-and-future-hall-of-famer/