Holy crap. This picture says it all

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This $200M defense is the rope that Tomlin is hanging himself with. There are no more easy excuses. If you, as a defensive guru and with easily the leagues highest paid defense, can get carved up by Justin Fields and Joe Flacco . . .

And to think that they haven't had to play Jackson, Burrow, Mahomes, Allen, Stafford, etc etc.

I guess what I'm saying is . . . this may be the moment we have been waiting for. A proficient offense (finally) being held back by Tomlin's inability to coach up a defense chalk full of hall of famers (on paper). How does he talk his way out of this one?

I think he'll double down on turnovers and blame the offense that scored 31 points for "putting the defense in bad situations"

I have a feeling we will hear "We have to execute better and we couldn't make up for the turnovers" That will be pretty much all that is stated and we can get on to unleashing hell again.