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Mike Florio Sees Starting Pickett As A Way For Steelers To ‘Excite And Energize’ With Lagging Engagement

The Pittsburgh Steelers have a business, and their business is winning football games. In no small part due to stability at the most crucial position on the field, they have managed to do that will impressive relative consistency for the better part of the past couple of decades.

But they found themselves at an impasse under center with Ben Roethlisberger retiring. They believed that Kenny Pickett would give them the best chance to replace what they were losing. But that perhaps goes both on and off the field, Mike Florio ponders for Pro Football Talk.

“Look, I know the Steelers aspire to win every Super Bowl, and for them, it’s not just hollow talk to fill the stadium”, he said as a preface.