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Donald Starve to SteelersToday.com:

"Last night (on national TV, I might add) the Steelers lost against the Cleveland Browns by a score of 13-6. The loss sealed an embarrassing trifecta. The Steelers have now lost against the Chiefs in Kansas City, Oakland Raiders and Cleveland Brown in the same season. That's what I call the trifecta of shame. "

I'm not really sure what to think of the team more. Are they a good team that has suffered due to the loss of two of their best players (Aaron Smith and Troy Polamalu)?Or are they a really bad team that was exposed by some of the worst teams in the NFL?

Ed Bouchette, long Steelers beat writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

"Their five game losing streak is the first in a Super Bowl champion since the 1987 New York Giants, who did it with an asterisk because a part came during this season replacement games.

There are five defeats and there are trails that the Steelers are on. Losing to Baltimore and Cincinnati in close games - with one-quarter green - can be explained.Losing to the people of Kansas City, Oakland and Cleveland can not, except in theory.

The team then hit the wall. "

Bouchette discusses the ages of some of the Steelers defenders starters: 33, 32, 34, 35, 32, 30 and 31.

"The slogan popularized after the Steelers won their fourth Super Cup in January 1980 became" one for the thumb.''It took 26 years to get the fifth ring. The aim is now for them not to take so long to reach "Seventh Heaven" as their second best decade of football ends with a thud. "

Finally, Jim Wexel of SteelCityInsider.com:

"The Browns wanted it more.

They were superior in terms of urgency and emotion.

Heart Steelers failed.

Entered flat and stayed that way....

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