The Pittsburgh Steelers hired Arthur Smith as offensive coordinator to install his system here. This much is true of any coordinator is a coordinator in anything more than name. But Aditi Kinkhabwala (I know, I know…) suggests that there’s more to it than that. In short, he doesn’t have as much pull in Pittsburgh as he might have had elsewhere or had previously.
Asked about Smith’s offense in Pittsburgh on 93.7 The Fan recently, she said, “I think that that’s more a question of, what [are] Mike Tomlin, and maybe perhaps to some degree what Art Rooney [II] dictating?