STEELERS NEED TO GO 5-12

Here's an excerpt from my latest TribLive.com column:

Signing Aaron Rodgers isn't what's best for the Steelers.

What's best for the Steelers is to go 5-12.

Then, in the 2026 draft, the Steelers select the quarterback you get when you go 5-12. Who figures to be considerably better than the quarterback you pick when you go 10-7. (That draft is in Pittsburgh. You want showbiz? You got it.)

The obsession with clinging to the mushy middle like it's a good thing is dumbfounding.

The Steelers don't see that, and neither do most of you.

But the formula is proven, and it's simple.

Go 1-13, draft Terry Bradshaw, win Super Bowls.

Go 6-10, draft Ben Roethlisberger, win Super Bowls.

What don't the Steelers understand? But they don't.

They believe their own horse manure. That's a problem. They believe their method supersedes doing what's needed to get the best long-term quarterback possible.

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The big chance came in 2019.

Ben Roethlisberger popped his elbow in the season's second week. It was the perfect chance to tank.

The 2020 draft was flush with quarterbacks: Joe Burrow, Tua Tagovailoa, Justin Herbert, Jordan Love, Jalen Hurts.

The Los Angeles Chargers went 5-11 and got Herbert.

The Steelers traded their first-round pick for safety Minkah Fitzpatrick and went 8-8.

Roethlisberger retired after the 2021 season, the Steelers whiffed when they drafted Kenny Pickett in 2022, they still don't have their long-term quarterback and Fitzpatrick has never won a playoff game.

There's zero nobility in the Steelers' approach. There's zero nobility in not winning a playoff game for eight seasons.