The best part—if you can call it that—of watching your favorite team’s season come to a close is the reckoning. The worst part is setting aside some of the acrimony and figuring out where to start.
The Pittsburgh Steelers, two weeks after concluding the most successful regular season campaign of Mike Tomlin’s tenure, lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars 45-42 in the Divisional Playoffs, which was a result driven by poor coaching, even poorer defense, and, depending on how spicy you like your takes, lack of focus by the players. Before we get around to deconstructing this whole thing, though, it should be noted that it doesn’t make, like, a ton of sense do to a stock report or whatever.