Here's an excerpt from my latest TribLive.com column:
High floor. Low ceiling. That's who the Steelers are. What they want.
As proven in 2019.
Ben Roethlisberger popped his elbow in the Steelers' Week 2 home loss to Seattle. Out for the year.
Facing a season with Mason Rudolph and Devlin Hodges at quarterback, the time was ripe to go 4-12 and get a high draft pick. Nothing great was possible.
Instead, two days after Roethlisberger's injury, the Steelers traded their first-round pick to Miami for safety Minkah Fitzgerald.
Why make a big trade then, but not now?
Because the goal is to never have a losing season.
That's more important than occasionally winning a Super Bowl.
The Steelers haven't finished under .500 since 2003. That's what they care about. The pride of the hypocycloid.
Mission accomplished.
The Steelers went 8-8 in 2019.
And didn't draft Justin Herbert.
Fitzpatrick never won a playoff game with the Steelers.
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