They say that idle hands are the devil’s playground. We can probably tweak that to describe the downtime for an NFL team between games when they have a bye week or a Thursday game, because, boy, has there been chatter surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers since they were last inside a stadium.
From that point of view, Sunday’s game against the Green Bay Packers cannot get here soon enough. They have been mired in a slew of largely manufactured controversies that have only fed upon themselves due to the fact that they haven’t had the opportunity to take the field and change the narrative.