Right now, the formula, if you want to call it that for the Pittsburgh Steelers is to start slow, look awful for three quarters and then rally late behind quarterback Kenny Pickett. It’s so accepted that head coach Mike Tomlin almost makes it seem like that is what they want to do when no one actually believes that.
Playing mediocre to bad football for 75 percent of the season doesn’t make you a good football team. Not at all. It makes you lucky and eventually, that luck will run out.
The best thing the Steelers can do, and honestly the best thing Tomlin can do is acknowledge this isn’t what the team wants to do and then work toward helping Pickett out so you aren’t forcing a second-year quarterback into game after game where he is playing from behind.
This week the Steelers take on the Jacksonville Jaguars while they work to hold onto slim playoff hopes.
