{"id":645067,"date":"2026-01-01T07:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/645067\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T07:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:55:26","slug":"you-didnt-take-this-game-seriously-browns-dt-flames-steelers-for-complete-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/645067\/","title":{"rendered":"‘You Didn’t Take This Game Seriously’: Browns DT Flames Steelers For ‘Complete Failure’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers are getting a lot of flak for losing to the Cleveland Browns, and rightfully so. They could\u2019ve locked up the AFC North. The Browns weren\u2019t an intimidating foe, either. They only had three wins before Week 17. However, the Steelers came up short, putting up one of their most disappointing performances of the year.<\/a> Browns defensive tackle Shelby Harris didn\u2019t mince his words when talking about the Steelers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were more worried about Myles Garrett getting the sack record than winning that game,\u201d Harris said recently on his We\u2019re the Harrises podcast.<\/a> \u201cThe offense, the way they set it up, they were trying to get rid of the ball. The O-line the whole game was saying, \u2018You\u2019re not going to get it on me\u2026\u2019 You didn\u2019t take this game seriously because you were more worried about a record\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThey did not go into that game with a real game plan on trying to win. The stats show it. The quickest the ball has been thrown by Aaron Rodgers this whole year, by far. It wasn\u2019t even any attempt at developing routes down the field. It was just hike, throw it or run the ball\u2026 If you ask me, it was a complete failure for the Pittsburgh Steelers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garrett himself said that he felt<\/a> like the Steelers were more focused on him than winning. Despite Harris seconding that claim, it\u2019s just not true.<\/p>\n

The Steelers had the same plan for Garrett that they employed earlier this season. Of course they\u2019re going to devote a lot of attention to him. He\u2019s one of the best players in the NFL. Stopping him tends to correlate with winning.<\/p>\n

Yes, Rodgers got the ball out of his hands quickly, but that\u2019s nothing new. He\u2019s been doing that all year. The Steelers\u2019 passing offense has relied on the quick game.<\/p>\n

Also, the Steelers didn\u2019t have DK Metcalf against the Browns. If Harris noticed any difference in the Pittsburgh\u2019s offensive game plan, that\u2019s probably a big reason why. Metcalf is the Steelers\u2019 best weapon, and he\u2019s a great deep threat. Without him, and with Calvin Austin III missing the game as well, the Steelers\u2019 passing game was handcuffed.<\/p>\n

The Steelers are also on their fourth left tackle. Dylan Cook has played well, but he still doesn\u2019t have a ton of experience. There was no way that the Steelers were going to force him to block Garrett alone for the entire game.<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019 team won the game. You\u2019d think he\u2019d want to focus on what the Browns did, not what Garrett didn\u2019t do. That loss was a total failure by the Steelers. The Browns were the better team. Blaming everything that happened on the Steelers being more focused on Garrett than winning takes away from all of that, though.<\/a> The Browns did more right, and the Steelers did more wrong, than just that.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers are getting a lot of flak for losing to the Cleveland Browns, and rightfully so.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,7,1304,6,57,14403],"class_list":{"0":"post-645067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-clevelandbrowns","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-myles-garrett","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","16":"tag-shelby-harris"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115818773392188596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}