Pittsburgh Steelers Report Card/Week Five: Still No Cure For Super Hangover

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Published: October 12, 2009

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... Once is an accident, twice is a trend. But what do you call three or four times? Fatal, that’s what.

Once again, the uninspired Steelers took a lead into the fourth period, and once again, they had one foot over a cliff at the finish. And remember, this was against a toothless Lions team.

Anyone one who thinks the trend will change any time soon has chugged too much black and gold Kool-Aid lately. This group has too much age and too little focus to put teams away any more.

2. For the record, the Steelers haven’t had a wire-to-wire blowout since Week 17 of last season, a span of eight games. And that was the Cleveland Browns, so it doesn’t count, really.

3. The Browns are next on the schedule, which is why safety Troy Polamalu should play on pass downs only if he has tested his strained knee ligament at all.

4. The Lions converted 11 of 18 chances on third down. Not only that, but they did it without their best player (Calvin Johnson) an...

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