One of the hardest parts of the NFL schedule is for a locker room to be trimmed down from 90 players to 63. Bonds are formed over a period of months and then severed suddenly, only for players to come back to their meeting rooms the follow Monday to a much emptier facility.
That could be even more difficult of a process when the roster is closer, and that seems to be how the Pittsburgh Steelers have been this year. That’s what we’ve been hearing since the start of offseason workouts, about how much closer players are to one another in contrast to years past.