In the 1970s, Chuck Noll helped lead the Pittsburgh Steelers out of the gutter. They went from one of the worst teams in the league to a dynasty. Since then, they haven’t looked back, being one of the most stable franchises in the NFL. The standard is the standard, as Mike Tomlin likes to say. Unfortunately, the Steelers have been a little more underwhelming in recent years, and Jerome Bettis thinks that they haven’t met the standard.
“The standard has already been set,” Bettis said recently on The Zach Gelb Show. “Now, it’s up to each team to get to that standard, and they haven’t.