The Pittsburgh Steelers’ season isn’t over after another routine embarrassment in primetime. They’re still at the top of the AFC North, even if their grip is fading quickly.
But this season, as fans knew from the beginning, would go as Aaron Rodgers goes. The 41-year-old came into this, what will likely be his final season, with plenty of doubters casting reasons why this experiment would blow up in Mike Tomlin, Omar Khan, and Art Rooney II’s faces.
The loss to Los Angeles didn’t end the Steelers’ season. It did, however, give every Rodgers doubter this past offseason plenty of vindication that, in the end, they were right.