It doesn’t seem as though it was all that long ago that Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin was portraying himself as one of the most aggressive head coaches in the league in terms of his willingness to take risks on offense, looking for advantages with two-point conversions and attacking defenses on fourth down, doing so proactively rather than out of necessity.
The Steelers, frankly, don’t have the kind of offense that merits that kind of latitude, and so we saw Tomlin play it very conservatively when he decided to punt on 4th and 1 on his own 34-yard line midway through the fourth quarter, down by two scores.