Maybe Mike Tomlin should have gone to his bullpen after all.
Maybe it would have been a good idea to bring in Mitch Trubisky — his new long reliever — and hope the quarterback he signed in free agency could do for the offense what he did a week earlier against Tampa Bay.
Maybe it would have resulted in a victory that kept alive the belief the season might still be salvaged, despite an offense that flops around like an Atlantic salmon.