Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin inherited a roster that won a Super Bowl two years earlier. Nobody is more happy to remind everyone of this fact than his detractors, yet we must also acknowledge the inevitable messiness of a team moving on from a franchise quarterback.
Tomlin has never steered the ship through such waters before. For 15 years, he had Ben Roethlisberger upon which to rely, who offered a baseline level of performance. And we really should view the moves of this offseason in light of that new mindset that comes with ambiguity.
You have to take more swings when you’re looking for your franchise quarterback, which Tomlin is.