There is a saying that ‘context is everything’. There is also a saying that ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same’. With the retirement of Pouncey, the former saying trumps the later. Right now, here today, we find this franchise at a crossroads. The biggest problem last year, only got bigger with time. The Steelers O-line will be significantly different next year and it is possible, even likely, that right now we still have not seen all the change that will occur just with the personnel that played last year.
I will point out that one thing that we won’t ‘see’ but it will be very real, is the loss of his leadership in the locker room.