The Steelers defense wasn’t great on Sunday against the Patriots, just great when it had to be. And that’s why they walked out of Gillette Stadium with a big 21-14 win.

OK, I stole that line from the late great NFL Films narrator John Facenda, but to be honest, I don’t know if I even believe that. I don’t know how much of what happened Sunday was due to the Steelers’ brilliance and how much of it was due to Patriots incompetence, but the truth is somewhere in between that.

Yes, the Steelers forced five turnovers and sacked Drake Maye five times, and those high-impact plays were the difference in the game. There is a term “ball luck” that was coined, maybe Sunday, to describe a game where one team gets a bunch of turnovers bouncing their way, and that is probably a great way to describe

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