The club eventually switched planes, though, much to defensive end Cam Heyward’s chagrin, not one owned by Taylor Swift. Pittsburgh’s flight home from Las Vegas made an unexpected stop in Kansas City early Monday morning when the plane had an issue that needed to be addressed on the ground. Watt was right when he called the youngest of the three Watt brothers “the best defensive player on the planet.”Ĭharter planes.

Week in, week out, Watt is a force regardless of how opponents are trying to defend him. Twice he forced Raiders quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo into releasing the ball before he wanted, leading directly to Levi Wallace interceptions. The perennial All-Pro already has six sacks through three games and even when he doesn't get to the quarterback, he's a game-wrecker. Now Pittsburgh heads into the meat of its schedule hoping what happened in Vegas doesn't stay there.Įvery single thing Watt does. The victory over the Raiders provided a welcome chance to exhale. The Steelers have scored 20-plus points in three straight games just once since Canada replaced Randy Fichtner as offensive coordinator in 2021. Now comes the hard part: making it look that fluid on a consistent basis. It’s still very early stages of the year.” “We did what we needed to do to secure a victory. “There are opportunities for growth obviously, but I was really proud of the efforts and the playmaking,” Tomlin said. Watt, those six plays provided breathing room and a chance to exhale, a rarity for most of the past two-plus seasons. Pickett then followed by rolling to his left and lobbing a pass to a wide-open Freiermuth.įor an offense that entered the game with the fewest first downs in the NFL, for an offensive coordinator that had fans chanting for his dismissal during a game the Steelers were actually winning, for a defense that has a perpetually disruptive force in outside linebacker T.J. Najee Harris found a crease and darted 17 yards. Pickett connected with Freiermuth - an afterthought during the first two weeks - over the middle for 14.

Jaylen Warren churned for 4 yards then caught a well-designed delayed screen that turned into a 16-yard gain. On first down at the Pittsburgh 19, Pickett lined up in the shotgun, faked a handoff then found George Pickens in stride for 17 yards. 'I actually think that’s a positive we could take away.” “There were a lot of different things in that drive that were really positive,” Pickett said after throwing multiple touchdown passes in the same game for the first time in his career. Most of them produced first downs, the last technically coming on a 13-yard touchdown pass from Pickett to tight end Pat Freiermuth that gave the Steelers a 16-point lead and was executed so perfectly rookie tight end Darnell Washington - running an underneath route - raised his hands in celebration when Pickett's pass was only halfway to Freiermuth's awaiting hands in the back corner of the end zone. In the span of 3:19, Kenny Pickett and company covered 81 yards in a half-dozen snaps. For six plays in the third quarter of Sunday's 23-18 victory over Las Vegas, it all returned - even the play-calling, maybe especially the play-calling - offering a glimpse of what the Steelers (2-1) hope can become a regular occurrence over the next three-plus months.

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