Surely, it had to be a coincidence. The Steelers cutting David Johnson, Fitzgerald Toussaint and Cobi Hamilton Saturday simply was a matter of them getting beat out by better competition. But it’s hard for anyone who knows Steelers history not to notice the purging of previous playoff goats.
It was Johnson who infamously missed his block early in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLV that led to a Rashard Mendenhall fumble. The Steelers were driving for the go-ahead score, and it ended up being the turning point in the eventual 31-25 loss.
It was Toussaint who infamously fumbled in the fourth quarter of a 2015 AFC divisional round game in Denver.