PITTSBURGH — The Browns moved to 1-5 after a bad 23-9 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, and it came down to the little things.

The Steelers defense came prepared for Dillon Gabriel, and a run game that had been strong in recent weeks.

Their offense was prepared for Myles Garrett and one of the league’s best defenses.

Here’s how they stood 10 toes down, from their words.

Containing Gabriel

Gabriel came off a solid Week 5 performance where he was steady and didn’t make any big mistakes.

The one area of the rookie quarterback’s game that Steelers coach Mike Tomlin complimented was Gabriel’s presnap disguise.

“I thought they did a nice job with their presnap disguise,” Tomlin said. “They didn’t allow (Gabriel) to digest information prior to getting the ball in his hands. That’s the first component of slowing down the process.”

That was something they planned to counter, along with Gabriel’s time in the pocket.

Gabriel completed 55.8% of his passes for 221 yards Sunday, but the number that stuck out from his performance was six.

That’s how many times Gabriel was sacked. Six times.

Pittsburgh’s pressure was immense, and they bum-rushed the pocket whenever they felt like it.

Two of the sacks belonged to cornerback Jalen Ramsey, who was ecstatic to know he had more sacks than the star edge rushers in the game: Garrett and the Steelers’ T.J. Watt.

“I’m gonna probably tell my kids about this. I played in a game with (Watt) and (Garrett) and I had two sacks,” Ramsey said.

Two more belonged to Nick Herbig, who wasn’t satisfied with the amount of yards given up, despite holding Cleveland to three field goals.

“Still let up too much points, too much yards. Not satisfied with what we did out there. We can be a lot better, and I’m excited to get back to work,” Herbig said.

The pressure overlapped with the run defense clogging the gaps and keeping Browns running back Quinshon Judkins, who had 110 rushing yards in Week 5, to only 36 yards on 12 carries.

“If you’re neutralizing the run, you have a young quarterback trying to see what you have…to see if he can get the ball into the playmaker’s hands,” Watt said after logging five tackles and 0.5 sacks. “That’s what (Cleveland) planned today, and we did a good job of stopping (it).”

Stopping Garrett

Pittsburgh is familiar with Garrett.

They watch him break records from afar, and try to keep him from doing so in their two meetings every year.

With the Steelers coming off their bye week, No. 95 was at the top of their gameplan.

“That’s one of the first things that Coach Tomlin put up on the board in the team meeting on Monday. (Garrett’s) a game wrecker,” right tackle Troy Fautanu said.

Matchup-wise, it was Broderick Jones on Garrett. But to keep Garrett from even laying a finger on Rodgers, Pittsburgh did a fine job in routinely implementing double-teams.

“Myles knows we’re trying to put four hands on him, so he’s obviously got to figure out their coaches got to figure out a way to scheme him up to get free,” Fautanu said.

The gameplan worked to a tee, because they made Garrett a no-show on Sunday.

Garrett was held to two tackles. That’s it.

The gameplan worked to a tee, as they double-teamed him and even let Jones do his thing one-on-ones.

Garrett is notorious for his graveyard around Halloween, filled with “tombs” of the quarterbacks he’s sacked over the years.

He had referenced his desire to add Rodgers to the list.

“I’d be honored to put (Rodgers) in the graveyard, and definitely a lot of respect for what he’s done in his career, because he’s special,” Garrett said Friday.

Before Sunday, there were five such games in which Garrett finished with no sacks versus Pittsburgh, the most recent coming in Week 2 of the 2023 season.

Make that six games after Sunday.

“I thought we did a good job with the tight ends, variation body types, and running backs out there trying to chip him just to kind of slow him down,” Rodgers said. “But when (Jones) had singles, I felt like — I got to look at the film, but it seemed like he played pretty well.”

Containing Garrett was only the tip of taking what Cleveland’s defense gave them.

The quick passes broke down the Browns, as Rodgers took no more than 2.73 seconds in the pocket, per Next Gen Stats. He completed 70.0% of his passes for 235 yards and two scores.

The first touchdown came off directing Connor Heyward before zipping it to him. The second came off a deep ball to DK Metcalf.

Deep balls by Rodgers had been a topic of discussion all week. Coming into Sunday, he’d had only had 10 passes that traveled 20 or more yards downfield, per Pro Football Focus.

Against the Browns, he completed three of his five deep passes, and one of which was the 25-yarder to Metcalf.

Rodgers had nothing but praise for his guys after the game.

“Connor is a really smart player, and I was just kind of, like, either you or DK, one of you guys see this and go that way,“ Rodgers said. ”Connor did, and I put a decent ball on, and he made a nice catch.”

Despite not accounting for points, the Steelers run game had 100 yards on the day and carried multiple series that led to points.

The offensive line had some work to do after allowing four sacks in Week 1, and have only allowed five in the following four games since.

Rodgers and Metcalf connected, the run game was solid, and the offensive line did their job.

But they’ll have to replicate the next time they play Cleveland on Dec. 28.

“This is probably the best (defense) we’ve seen so far this year. Cool thing we see (Garrett) again…just make sure we’re prepared for the next time,” Fautanu said.