Steelers stars clearly call out member of defense in midst of struggles

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The Steelers clearly have an issue with someone on their defense

The Pittsburgh Steelers have lost three straight games in 11 days, taking their record from 10-3 to 10-6 in the blink of an eye- and this constant losing seems to be boiling over into something much bigger.

After the 29-10 Christmas day loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, multiple members of the Steelers’ defense not-so-subtly called out an unnamed player. Safety DeShon Elliott was very blunt with his words.

“First off, guys can’t be wide f*cking open,” Elliott said. “That’s the first thing. Do your job… it’s [Week 17]. We shouldn’t be having these problems in [Week 17]. This is a Week 1, Week 2 problem. So I don’t know where we went down the line and started becoming a whole different defense of who we were.”

Alex Highsmith says that some players don’t have enough urgency and “want-to” right now.

“There’s got to be a want-to,” Highsmith said. “There’s not enough of that right now… it’s that time of year where we’ve got two guaranteed games left. We’re gonna find out who wants it.”

Cam Heyward is in the midst of one of the best seasons of his career, and his frustrations were evident, as well.

“When 10 guys do their job and one guy doesn’t, we’re screwed.”

T.J. Watt praised the guys in the locker room who love the process, but hinted that there were players that don’t in doing so.

“I love football. I love the process and I know there’s a lot of guys in the locker room that do also.”

There is evidently a lot of toxicity going around right now on the defensive side of the ball, and it needs cleaned up if the Steelers want to end this drought of playoff winless football.