Steelers: 2 things Pittsburgh must do immediately to fix offense

Steelers must push the ball down the field

The other thing Pittsburgh needs to do is to throw the ball down the field.

This horizontal passing game may work in college where you see a whole bunch of tunnel screens and the like. But that frankly does not work in the NFL for any sustained period of time for the simple fact that NFL defensive players are as fast, if not faster, than some offensive skill position players.

I don’t know what type of scheme we would label the Steelers offense through one game, but I would label it as a college offense.

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No disrespect intended toward first-year offensive coordinator Matt Canada. But for the sake of my health, please stop calling tunnel screens and slants. Throw the ball downfield, and if you want to call a screen, call a middle screen, which was wide open, but Najee Harris could not reel in the ball.

Pittsburgh used to be the best at calling middle screens back in the day, and they always worked.

So here’s what the Steelers offense needs to do: get back to the power-run game and throw the ball down the field.

Simple, right?