There’s always a palpable sense of hopelessness when a Pittsburgh Steelers’ season goes down in flames at playoff time. Typically, the knee-jerk reaction is to go back to the drawing board—not only in terms of strategy but also with respect to personnel. So it came as no surprise that, no sooner had the Jacksonville Jaguars ended the Steelers season, the team bid a fast farewell to Todd Haley, the man widely panned for the under-performing ways of the 2017 Steelers’ offense. And as long as we’d already broken out the torches and pitchforks, what about Mike Tomlin, the head coach who, if insider reports are accurate, was apparently doing double duty as de facto coordinator of a ridiculously porous defense?
Three Keys for the Steelers return to the NFL’s Promised Land
