For Kermit The Frog, it ain’t easy being green. And for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the fanbase, the idea of “play Justin Fields” is more complicated than that. His talent is worth exploring, but he isn’t the Flextape seal of “he’ll fix everything,” red zone or otherwise.
It turns out there’s a reason teams prefer to have just one quarterback. Rotating in someone else brings a lot of layers. Pittsburgh found that out the hard way in Thursday night’s loss to the Cleveland Browns.
Here are just a handful of things to consider.