Theres more and more evidence this year that the league has parity. Its still early yet but there are no undefeated teams. There are currently 7 1-loss teams, 13 2-loss teams, 6 3-loss teams, 5 4 loss teams and 1 winless team. 60 % of the league falls about where we sit or a game/half game back.
This isnt college (where talent earns you blowouts and shoulds in fact turn to factual)...........on any given Sunday the best can lose to the worst. The Steelers arent title contenders. Lets not fool ourselves.........they are about avg or just above in my book. But we arent a finished product and although we finished hot at the tail end of last season, we still have 22 new players to integrate into the roster.
Bottom line, if we had a defense anywhere similar to what we had 3-4 yrs ago, we'd be 4-1 and projected a division title contender. We arent that far off. We just have to mesh these new parts with the old and hope it bonds substantially. If we hit our stride defensively and the offense clears up half its red zone deficiencies by the time the seasons end approaches we will be a force. Lets see if we can get hot. I do see positive signs defensively though (improvement). Although we get gashed when they run at Worilds side (most of the big gains in the run game happen there)
