Steelers are skidding into the New Year on a 3-game slide after lopsided loss to the Chiefs
Associated PressPITTSBURGH — Three times in 11 days, the Pittsburgh Steelers faced a team aiming for the Super Bowl, the kind of elite company the Steelers have spent most of the season trying to prove they belong in. And three times in 11 days, Pittsburgh found itself doing all of the little things wrong — and some of the big things too — on its way to a lopsided loss, the latest a 29-10 defeat at the hands of Kansas City on Christmas Day that offered a stark contrast of two teams heading in opposite directions. The Steelers spent three hours “running on the beach” as coach Mike Tomlin put it. “The bottom line is the junior varsity is not good enough, we’ve got to own that,” Tomlin said. He’s done a good job for us down in the red zone and they made a good play.” Though the Steelers managed to get within 13-7 at the break, the defense yielded almost immediately.
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