You may have heard once, twice or a thousand times last season that Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has never had a losing season.
That fact became commonly overplayed last season, but there's a good reason: It's an incredible feat. The NFL isn't college football, where the best programs stay dominant because they can get the best players each year. The NFL is designed so no team stays on top too long. Tomlin's teams haven't always been on top. But for 16 seasons, they've never been bad either.
Last season should have been bad. They had to replace Hall of Fame quarterback Ben Roethlisberger with either Mitchell Trubisky or rookie Kenny Pickett, who was a first-round pick but not considered an elite prospect.