It’s been a number of years now since the Pittsburgh Steelers have had a stable secondary, which is something that I have spent some time going back and looking into earlier this offseason. They haven’t entered from one season to the next with the same starting secondary since Ryan Clark was here.
In other words, the Steelers have experienced a lot of adjustment and turnover, though the coach was stable for that period. Carnell Lake was the team’s defensive backs coach for the past seven seasons, but the personnel has shuffled extensively, in large part due to the retirement of players like Ike Taylor and Troy Polamalu.