The national media this offseason has by and large done an excellent job of being off the mark in terms of their pulse-taking of the Pittsburgh Steelers, with arguably one exception, at least in my experience, and that has been Cris Carter on FS1’s First Things First. I haven’t agreed with everything he’s said on every Steelers-related issue, but he’s been on the nose with a lot of things.
I think he offered an important perspective yesterday on the conversation of Ben Roethlisberger and his leadership, which was essentially this: leadership doesn’t come without question, and being questioned doesn’t mean you’re not a good leader.