13 games into the 2019 season, the Pittsburgh Steelers were sitting at an improbable 8-5 after starting off the season with a 1-4 record in the first five weeks, rattling off a 7-1 record in the middle of the year. Head coach Mike Tomlin’s name was being bandied about as a strong contender for head coach of the year, a distinction not earned by a Steelers head coach (at least for the Associated Press) since Bill Cowher’s first year in 1992.
Then Devlin Hodges laid an egg, not typically something you would expect from a Duck by stereotype, though they do, of course, lay eggs.