It has been seven years since the Pittsburgh Steelers last won a postseason game. Steelers edge rusher T.J. Watt finds that fact annoying.
In an interview on SiriusXM NFL Radio on March 22, Watt showed a great deal of contempt for the team’s 0–4 postseason record in his playing career.
According to Steelers Depot’s Jeremy Pike, Watt stated of the 2023 season, “Obviously, didn’t go the way we wanted in the end.” “This past season was my seventh year here. It is disgraceful and not how we do things in Pittsburgh to lose a playoff game.
Since the Steelers won their first playoffs game in 1972, the seven-year winless streak is the longest in the team’s history.
The Pittsburgh Steelers’ final postseason triumph was in the AFC divisional round of the 2016–17 campaign, against the Kansas City Chiefs. The Steelers selected Watt in the first round of the next offseason. Remarkably, the Chiefs selected quarterback Patrick Mahomes by trading up in the same draft.
T.J. Watt and the Steelers Have Not Won in the Playoffs Recently
As a rookie, Watt recorded 7 sacks, 13 quarterback hits, 7 pass defenses, and 1 forced fumble to aid the Steelers in their 13-3 campaign in 2017. But in the AFC divisional round, the squad lost shockingly to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The Jaguars offense, headed by Blake Bortles, scored 45 points against Watt and the Pittsburgh defense.
In the team’s subsequent postseason journey, the Steelers defense didn’t perform much better. The Steelers fell 48-37 to the Cleveland Browns in the 2021 postseason, a squad decimated by COVID that was without head coach Kevin Stefanski due to COVID regulations.
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