The Pittsburgh Steelers, for yet another year, fought very hard to secure one of the last spots in the playoffs only to bow out immediately. Monday night's 30-6 loss to the visiting Houston Texans was the franchise's seventh straight postseason defeat—a streak that has taken a lot of shine off Mike Tomlin's 19-year stretch of finishing at .500 or above. Pittsburgh was clearly overmatched and incapable of doing anything at all with a 42-year-old Aaron Rodgers under center but managed to hang around in a one-point game until the fourth quarter before the wheels really fell off.
T.J. Watt, the face of the Steelers defense who played through a painful collapsed lung down the stretch, was asked to reflect on what has become a bit of a Groundhog Day-type situation in the Steel City.
