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Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin had a message for his offense on September 19.
The Pittsburgh Steelers escaped with a 26-22 victory against the Cleveland Browns on Monday Night Football.
But Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin made it clear in his press conference the morning after the game that the team’s offensive performance hasn’t been nearly good enough to begin the season.
With that in mind, Tomlin called for his offense to return to its preseason form.
“Offensively, we have to get our mojo back. We’ve got to get that mojo that we had in the preseason where we were playing fast and fluid, with confidence, individually and collectively,” Tomlin told reporters. “We’ve lost that, to be blunt, in the last several weeks.
“We’re not getting the type of fluidity that we want in our starts. We’re not teeing up possession down play, not being in advantageous possession down circumstances, and really it’s making it challenging to sustain drives and score points.”
During the preseason, the Steelers first-team offense played five possessions and scored five touchdowns. Quarterback Kenny Pickett recorded a perfect passer rating.
But instead of riding that mojo into the regular season, the Steelers have scored just two offensive touchdowns through two games.
That’s the same number of touchdowns the Pittsburgh defense tallied in the first two weeks.
Dave Holcomb is a sports reporter covering the Pittsburgh Steelers and Detroit Lions for Heavy.com. Originally from Pittsburgh, Holcomb has covered college and professional sports for outlets including Fansided, Rotowire and Yardbarker. More about Dave Holcomb
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