Over the last five years, which includes the last couple seasons with Ben Roethlisberger, the Pittsburgh Steelers have played an extremely conservative brand of football on offense. Run the football, avoid the turnovers, and throw outside the numbers. This general strategy has been a staple of their approach. That includes the span of three different offensive coordinators. Who is the common denominator? Mike Tomlin.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Steelers insider Ray Fittipaldo is convinced that the conservative approach has more to do with Tomlin than it does Arthur Smith.
“I just have a hard time knowing that Arthur put together that game plan in Cincinnati a month ago, how much success it had, I just have a hard time that anyone in his position would do what they did,” Fittipaldo said via 93.