PITTSBURGH – The Indianapolis Colts entered the season with questions on the offensive line. They went into Week 1 with a rookie, a second-year player and a player waived a week prior to the season opener along the interior.

The group was solid during the first seven weeks of the season. The same couldn’t be said after the Colts’ 51-34 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday.

Quarterback Andrew Luck was sacked only twice, but the official stats had him being hit seven times (it seemed like more than that) by the Steelers in the defeat. Luck was hit so many times you had flashbacks to his first two seasons when you wondered how he managed to continue to get off the ground.

“We ran into a buzz saw,” Colts coach Chuck Pagano said. “They got after us about as good as you can get after anybody.”

Luck recorded his sixth straight game of at least 300 yards passing, which set a new franchise record, but the amount of times he was hit was alarming considering the offensive line had played well in recent weeks.

“We just have to watch the film and figure out what’s going on,” right tackle Gosder Cherilus said.