CHICAGO — This was the game, right?
If you looked at the Steelers schedule before the season, searching for the annual road implosion against a bad team, this one leapt off the page like an eager school kid and screamed, “Pick me!”
Yessir, this was the game that would provide an early indication of whether the Steelers had finally grown up. Whether they had matured to the point where they could take care of business and secure the kinds of road wins that would help them play at Heinz Field through January.
Or, it might signal that they still hadn’t figured it out against the Mike Glennons of the world and will probably wind up in Foxborough, Mass.