Steelers vs. Browns: What they're saying in Cleveland after the loss

What does Cleveland Brown head coach Kevin Stefanski think his team needs to improve upon after a 23-9 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers?

Pretty much everything.

“Name something, we gotta do it better,” he said.

It was a laundry list he cut short during his post-game press conference Sunday after his team’s defeat at Acrisure Stadium. He summed it up succinctly: “all of the above.”

“Just can’t do it on the road versus a good football team,” he said. “And we gotta get it fixed. Before you start winning, you gotta stop losing. We are doing some things right now that are preventing us from winning. So we’ll get it fixed.”

The Steelers haven’t lost to the Browns at home in the regular season since 2003, making Sunday’s win the 22nd consecutive victory over their division opponent. The Steelers moved to 4-1 and the Browns dropped to 1-5.

It was the same old story for the Browns, wrote Chris Pokorny of Dawgs By Nature. The team couldn’t get much of anything going on offense, defense or special teams.

And even though some of the players might be different this season, they produced the same results, wrote Chris Easterling from the Akron Beacon Journal.

“The Browns offensive line has been one of the biggest problems on the team this season,” he wrote.

Everything is hard for this offense and then when something does work there's some kind of mistake. Bad all around.

— Dan Labbe (@dan_labbe) October 12, 2025

Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin has a way of making rookie quarterbacks, like the Browns Dillon Gabriel, look foolish with consistent defensive pressure, Easterling said.

The Steelers defense shined during the game with six sacks and 16 hits on Gabriel. The Steelers held the Browns to 248 yards.

“They’re a really good team,” Gabriel said during his post-game press conference. “I think on the sack end, there’s things that I can help to do to try and get it out as quick as possible, just so we’re not in the negative on first and second downs. Things we gotta learn from.”

Dillon Gabriel played six years in college and never went a game without the offense scoring a TD. He only had four games without a TD pass.
In his second start with the Browns, the offense didn't get into the end zone.

— Scott Petrak ct (@ScottPetrak) October 12, 2025

He agreed with his head coach on the long list of improvements for the team, one of which Gabriel said is sustaining drives.

“It has to go back to action and getting work done so that there is a different outcome,” he said. “Nobody in the building likes this feeling.”

It’s pretty clear Browns defensive end Myles Garrett agreed. A former No. 1 overall pick, Garrett was held without a sack for the third consecutive game. He finished the game with two assisted tackles.

“To lose the same way every time, it’s frustrating as hell,” he said during his post-game press conference.

Asked Myles Garrett if it’s harder and harder to dig deep and keep pressing on amid the losing like it was for #Browns Joe Thomas: “Yep”

— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) October 12, 2025

Myles Garrett was asked what goes through his mind when he watches the Steelers pass rushers get after the QB with a two-score lead.

“Must be nice.”

— Daniel Oyefusi (@DanielOyefusi) October 12, 2025