Steelers HC Mike Tomlin speaks to internal changes: ‘Everything is on the table’
The Steelers’ head coach, Mike Tomlin, discusses internal changes: Everything is on the table’
This late in the season, with a negligible opportunity to make the end of the season games, it’s extremely simple for a group to toss their hands up high. This team appeared to have given up weeks ago, despite Mike Tomlin’s reputation for strong late-season pushes. The merciless misfortune to the Indianapolis Foals just affirmed it.
What’s there left to be finished?
When inquired as to whether he’d change how they get ready and who might play, Tomlin answered, “Everything is on the table at this crossroads. That is not how football should be played.
Tomlin declined to name a beginning quarterback for Week 16, yet Kenny Pickett is pushing to play when the Steelers have the 8-6 Bengals on Saturday. Mitch Trubisky has played more terrible than Pickett. Bricklayer Rudolph went 2-of-3 for three yards. With what is left of Matt Canada’s amateur offense, no roster quarterback can do anything.
The harm is finished.
They have never played like a team with heart through 60 minutes of play, even if they do pull off one or two miracle wins in their final three games (vs. Bengals, Seattle, and Baltimore). They just don’t merit a spot in the postseason, and in the event that they figure out how to arrive, it’s beyond any good time to redesign and supernaturally transform into the sort of group that wins when it makes a difference.
