For all the problems the Pittsburgh Steelers are having right now, there hasn’t been nearly enough attention given to just how awful the offensive line has played. But NFL analyst and former Steelers fullback Merrill Hoge isn’t letting them off the hook at all.
Hodge was on the DVE Morning Show and he said the Steelers offensive line is playing “patty cake” out there.
“Your left guard, who was a beast in Philly, has just gotten destroyed,” Hoge said. “Your center’s destroyed, your tackles are getting destroyed, I mean across the board. This is as bad of a group as there is the National Football League right now.”
Then Hoge offers up some information that all the “fire Canada and bench Kenny Pickett crowds aren’t going to like.
“Unless they get better, you’ve got no shot at getting better. We can quit pointing fingers at Kenny Pickett because if that doesn’t get corrected, you’re not going to do anything offensively.”
This is the hard truth we all must accept. This group was supposed to be upgraded and if anything they have taken a serious step back. The team cannot run the football and until that changes, nothing else will matter.
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