Failure can be an exciting thing. Failure can teach you where you need to get better to improve your chances of succeeding next time. In perhaps no other field is that lesson so repeatedly and viscerally learned than in sports, a journey that we see athletes take every year.
It’s the central premise behind the ‘second-year jump’ that we often hear about, and of which Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin is a big advocate. Considering this is a team that has more than half a dozen contributors entering their second season in 2022, including several starters, that’s pretty important.