Will Steelers Get It Right This Time? | Steelers Morning Rush
Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it’s reasons for optimism that the Steelers are or have corrected the offensive issues laid out by former running back Najee Harris.
Harris talked about a dysfunctional offense, with no leadership from the locker room or the coaching staff, after the retirement of Ben Roethlisberger at the end of the 2021 season.
The team seems to have fixed most of those issues, with a new, been-there, done-that offensive coordinator in Arthur Smith, a new foundation of the offense being built from the trenches out, instead of the wrong way around, under Omar Khan and Andy Weidl.
When Khan and Weidl took over, the team immediately shifted to a trenches-first rebuild instead of the cart-before-the-horse approach that netted them Harris in the first round. When the team was desperate for a quarterback in 2022, that’s all they looked at in NFL Draft prep. This time around, they seem more focused on defensive tackle amid a weak quarterback class.
So why should we expect them to get it all wrong? Alan breaks it down.
