The Steelers’ farewell week priorities suggest that things are as bad as they have been for a long time in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh Steelers 2-6 and eventually died in North Asia. Right now, they’re on track for their worst season in terms of total wins in the Mike Tomlin era. It’s been an eventful season so far, including week one starter Mitchell Trubesky, and switchback to rookie quarterback Kenny Beckett.
Obviously things aren’t great, and with the team saying goodbye, you might expect it would be a good time to recalibrate and get a few things in order in practice. Instead, it appears that there was more to the character than the game plan. This is not good news.
This team has participated in eight matches and is still not on the same page. They’re spending their farewell week not honing things and putting some polish on their current game plan, but instead airing things out.
Is this elementary school?
2013 had a rough start too, but the farewell week’s comments were a lot different from the Steelers
In 2013, the Steelers started 0-4 before going early in the fifth week. The team will close the season after farewell 8-4, including 6-2 in the last eight games of the year. In that season, the tune would have been a similar combination of using a farewell week to manage characters, especially early in the season, to get on the same page, but it was more of a schematic week.
This is what Ben Roethlisberger had to say in the fifth week during his farewell that year About the team:
“The people who are here… that they were here, they are good players and we trust each other. Give it our all. Get some rest and make our bodies healthy for 12 games and let’s give it our all.”
A far cry from where things feel the way they are now, huh?
And yes, Big Ben was founded at that point, but it wasn’t a team without guys. Le’Veon Bell was a novice at the time to paint a picture of where things were.
This year, they have seven players rushing in or rushing in to play 10 or more matches aged 25 or younger. In 2013, they had six such players.
Obviously, the big difference is in the middle. Beckett is thrown into the fire and quickly finds out. But keeping the locker room intact goes far beyond him in terms of who’s in charge, and it looks as if the ball has been dropped.
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