But I'm not one to generally overreact over football-related things.
And guess what?
Yesterday's loss isn't going to change that for me.
And that is the mindset I'm going with into the offseason.
Things definitely need to change and I feel confident that they will because there is plenty of heat, not a lot of money, contracts that are up or in flux, and a stale foundation that we have seen crumble.
People will want to point the finger at 1 singluar issue but the truth of the matter is that there wasn't 1 singular issue that led to this collapse. Every issue plays a hand with something else. From Tomlin all the way down to the bottom tier players. Lots of moving pieces.
Every fan sees the issues. Every fan wants change after last night.
But "Fire everyone. Cut everyone. Blow everything up."?
Great on paper, not realistic in reality, particularly for a franchise that craves stability.
They didn't do it in the dark years, they likely won't now.
There are a lot of question marks heading into the offseason and none of us know what will actually happen. A lot of moves that will be praised and a lot that will be met with criticism. As is the way of business decisions within a franchise.
There will always be things we don't know about why a particular decision was made. We aren't in those meetings. We aren't at those practices. We aren't a part of those phone calls.
Coaches/execs are far from perfect & make mistakes.
But so do we nor do we have all the answers.
Everyone has the right to hope that the Steelers tear it all down and start from scratch and be mad about things. Quite frankly, it might appear that way with how different the roster might look next year.
But you won't see overreactions from me.
Wait to see the full picture.
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The idea that you HAVE to have a 50-50 split running/passing the ball is a relatively outdated way of thinking in terms of today's offensive production.
The distribution of the Steelers' run/pass tendencies isn't really the issue. If they want to run the ball <20 times, fine.
All coaches would love to be able to deploy a completely balanced attack through the air and on the ground but history and statistics have shown us time and time again that you don't HAVE to be structured like that to have success. If you can move the ball and score, you win.
The biggest issue is their ineffectiveness/inefficiency in when they DO run the ball. If you want to be a pass heavy, 10 personnel team (which why wouldn't they want to with the weapons they have at WR/TE), so be it. But when you decide to run the ball, you can't average 1.5 YPC.