That was some old-school, violent, destructive stuff you saw from the Steelers defense Sunday afternoon at Acrisure Stadium. The only thing that looked more torn up than the turf was the Browns offense and their poor little quarterback, Dillon Gabriel.
It was vintage Steelers, is what it was.
At one point, four defenders — Payton Wilson, T.J. Watt, Nick Herbig and Derrick Harmon, if I’m not mistaken — converged on Gabriel and nearly tore him limb to limb. It was impossible to tell who actually got the sack.
“Can you give sacks as a third?” wondered CBS play-by-play man Ian Eagle.
How about as a fourth?
Anybody who believes intimidating, vicious defense is dead need only flick on the tape from this one. They’ll see Steelers linebacker Patrick Queen flat-out bury running back Jerome For