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Steelersfan43 · Dec 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM

dirty · Dec 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM

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Well is this really a bad thing? Maybe with the offense being so offensive to watch, we have been spared from having to watch too many offensive snaps.

Bubbahotep · Dec 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM

NorthernBlitz said: ↑

I think this season is a good chance for us to get to the bottom.

If we don't, the team will try to paper over the holes again.

Because the mission statement is to not play meaningless games / always be in competition for a playoff spot.

We won't try a rebuild to get younger and focus on the medium term over the short term.

The good thing and bad thing about Steelers ownership is that the need to run it like a business, not a toy. Rooney is rich by normal people standards, but not by NFL ownership standards. I think he needs the team to be consistently competitive for the business to work.

It's good because as fans we haven't had more than a handful of meaningless regular season games in decades. But it's bad because the team is in that valley of death right now...not good enough to do anything but maybe squeak into the 7th seed / not bad enough to draft a QB that can drive the team forward. And as a business decision, it's a better bet to stay in this limbo than to bet on a full rebuild and missing. Just like we completely whiffed on the last retooling of the offense (Najee, Pickett, Pickens, PF is at least OK, Jones not going to get the 5th year option...). Who's our best recent offensive draft pick? Dan Moore?

This is the same reason he isn't going to pay Tomlin $40MM to not coach for us + whatever a new coach is going to cost to run the show. Gotta wait until the contract is up.
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This is easily solved by giving the billionaire minority owners a bigger interest in the team. But of course that means the Rooney family gives up its legacy. Art senior would roll in his grave.

NorthernBlitz · Dec 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM

Bubbahotep said: ↑

This is easily solved by giving the billionaire minority owners a bigger interest in the team. But of course that means the Rooney family gives up its legacy. Art senior would roll in his grave.
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Maybe. But this might also be a painful thing for Rooney financially. Because I think they would have to pay capital gains taxes on the appreciation of the share of the team he sells.

Not a tax pro, but IIRC this is at least part of the reason they have minority owners from last time team ownership was being transferred down a generation of the Rooney family.

biggbunch68 · Dec 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM

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I agree. But that's not the Steelers way
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Well The " Steelers way isn't working"

Blast Furnace · Dec 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Steelpens65 · Dec 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM

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Thats awful. Seriously, any other team and Tomlin would be getting fired this morning. At the very least, the OC would be.
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Going out on a limb here
Probably fire ST coach Danny Smith

Steelpens65 · Dec 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM

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"But Tomlin would be hired by any team in the league in a second!"

Yeah. And his ass would've been handed to him along with his pink slip long ago for almost any other team in the league.
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Wish the Cowboys would take him
Oops
Pickens would demand a trade

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