Mike Tomlin has said that the Pittsburgh Steelers need to improve "in a hurry" following their second pre-season loss.

The AFC North side were turned over three times in the first half during their 24-13 defeat to the Washington Redskins last night.

The team's head coach told reporters: "Obviously, we are not finishing drives. Execution needs to improve in that area. We turned the football over three times in the first half and it going to be difficult to win football games.

"There were some positive things and some things to build off of but we aren't looking for comfort in that regard. We are going to watch this tape, grow from it and get better. We need to get better in a hurry and we will start that on Wednesday with the guys.

"We have gotten a little better in some areas but obviously not enough to win the game and that's what we came to do. We didn't get that done because we were highly penalised and that not only put us behind the drive and made conversions more difficult, but we actually converted a couple of third downs that were negated because of penalties."

The Steelers will play the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday.