Steelers' win against the Colts proves polarizing offseason trade was the missing piece on Pittsburgh's defense

Here's the thing. Someone is going to point out Ramsey's struggles as an outside corner against the Bengals a few weeks back or the way the Packers offense carved up the secondary last week. I'm not going to sit here and say that Ramsey is the same lockdown corner that he once was.

But as he's shown most of the season, and certainly on Sunday, he's a chameleon. He's a Swiss Army Knife, and above all else, he's what the Steelers needed inside the locker room. Many pushed back against bringing him in and letting Minkah Fitzpatrick go. But he's proven both on and off the field, that the Steelers made the right move.

"I noticed that something kind of changed last night when Jalen [Ramsey] spoke," said Aaron Rodgers via the Steelers YouTube channel after the game regarding Ramsey's address to the team on Saturday night. "And it's not easy to speak in front of the team, and even when you're a player, It's unnatural, and coaches are used to it, because they do every single day."

"Mike is fantastic at him, but Jalen kind of went on and on and had the attention of the room, and he said some really, really good stuff. I'm not going to get into it, because I feel like that. . .It's kind of, you know, need to know information, but it was meaningful to me on the offensive side, and I feel like we had a different energy in the locker room today."

That energy radiated throughout the field on Sunday. The Steelers' defense looked like a unit that knew it had to go out and win. They played with an urgency that has been missing for some time. And it's fair to assume that their big offseason trade on defense was a catalyst behind that.