Chris Carter of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, hosts the Locked on Steelers podcast.

If the Pittsburgh Steelers want to stop their season from falling off a cliff, they have to get back to playing elite defense soon. That will be tough without T.J. Watt, but the it all comes down to fixing the run defense to let the rest of the defense get back to what they do best. That starts up front with Cam Heyward, Larry Ogunjobi and Tyson Alualu as the defensive line has gotten beat too much. But that might just come from this group being exhausted after averaging almost 80 snaps per game over the first three contests.

In addition, the Steelers' secondary also got eaten up as Terrell Edmunds, Ahkello Witherspoon and Cameron Sutton gave up big plays. How to fix it, may not be too complicated.

Finally, all week 3 grades for the Steelers' week 3 loss to the Cleveland Browns, who hurt them the most, and why Devin Bush might have had his best showing of the season.

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