Before the 2025 season began, Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin talked about his defense potentially doing historic things. If that was the expectation, they have failed spectacularly through the first two weeks of the season.

The Steelers defense was shredded for the second week in a row in Sunday's 31-17 loss to the Seattle Seahawks , allowing 30-plus points for the second consecutive week.

That's bad. But it's only scratching the surface of what is now an unexpected problem for the Steelers.

Pittsburgh Steelers' defensive struggles began last year

The two sub-par performances this season are just a continuation of the way the Steelers ended the 2024 season.

If you go back over the Steelers' past 10 games, including the final eight of last season, the Steelers are allo

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