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Max Starks Says Steelers’ Fans Should Be Grateful For Team’s Success, Understand 2022 Is Transitional Season

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Most fanbases are used to an ugly season. One that’s over well before Thanksgiving. One where fans talk about draft picks in late October. In Pittsburgh, those are realizations and conversations that haven’t happened in a decade. Appearing on The Zach Gelb Show Friday, former Steelers’ offensive tackle Max Starks tried to put the team in perspective.

“Calm down a little bit,” Starks said. “It takes transitions and I know you’re not used to it, but this is what people go through and the fact that we’ve went through it for the first time in 18 years, you should be grateful.