Russell Wilson gives Pittsburgh Steelers teammates advice to fix recent problems

The Pittsburgh Steelers person been 1 of the NFL's astonishment packages successful 2024, but Russell Wilson knows determination is inactive plentifulness of country for betterment connected the violative broadside of the ball

Russell Wilson, the backmost for Pittsburgh Steelers, has urged his squad to measurement up their crippled connected archetypal and 2nd downs arsenic they proceed to conflict successful 2024.

The Steelers are presently ranked 30th successful the NFL connected reddish portion offense, with the worst discourtesy connected archetypal down, averaging a specified 4.1 yards per play implicit the season, and person tally the 3rd astir 3rd down plays successful the NFL.

Despite being drafted into the discourtesy after recovering from a preseason calf injury, replacing Justin Fields, the squad is yet to find a solution to its issues. However, contempt their struggles, the 8-3 Pittsburgh pb the AFC North and look acceptable to unafraid a postseason spot erstwhile the regular play concludes.

But Wilson isn't easing up, recognising the Steelers' potential. "I deliberation the happening is we conscionable got to enactment connected docket archetypal and 2nd down," Wilson stated.

"We've got to marque plays and we've got to find plays, and I don't deliberation we're acold off. I decidedly don't deliberation that. I deliberation we played 2 pugnacious games implicit the past 2 weeks and I judge successful us. I cognize however susceptible we are and I'm looking guardant to it."

The Steelers are gearing up for a challenging divisional clash with the Cincinnati Bengals, who person shown immoderate awesome violative flair contempt their 4-7 grounds successful 2024. Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase person been connected fire, but it's the Bengals' defence that has near them susceptible – thing the Steelers are acceptable to exploit. The cardinal for Pittsburgh is converting their drives into touchdowns.

"I deliberation we survey conscionable everything," Wilson said. "I deliberation we survey the things we've done well, I deliberation that's the archetypal happening and bash much of it. I deliberation that's 1 thing.

"We've got to marque plays and we've got to find plays, and I don't deliberation we're acold off. I deliberation the 2nd happening is fig retired wherever we're missing.

"We've had a batch of third-and-longs down determination it seems like, and truthful we've got to marque definite that we're giving ourselves the champion accidental to tally each of our reddish portion plays that we signifier and bash everything that we are prepared to do."

After facing the Bengals, the Steelers volition look to settee scores with their divisional rivals, the Cleveland Browns, earlier heading into 4 pugnacious games to circular disconnected the regular season. They'll instrumentality connected the Philadelphia Eagles, past the Baltimore Ravens, a rematch with the Bengals, and finally, they'll look the reigning champions, the Kansas City Chiefs.