This isn’t your grandaddy’s Pittsburgh Steelers offseason. The most aggressive and radical week of free agency the team’s ever experienced begs the question of – why? Why are the typically stable and careful Steelers, known for making fixes around the margins than wholesale changes, taking this approach?
The last seven years is why. No matter what the Steelers have done, who they’ve signed, who they’ve hired, how they’ve persevered, the results have been the same. No playoff wins.
This seven-year drought is the longest post-merger in team history. It’s changed the Steelers from Pittsburgh: Super Bowl contenders to Pittsburgh: let’s just have a winning record.