With Bill Cowher retired, will the Steelers running game philosophy change?
It’s not that the Pittsburgh Steelers don’t deal with change well, it’s that the franchise has seldom had to find out. The Rooney family has owned the team for all 75 years of its existence. Mike Tomlin enters the fray as the new coach, but he’s merely the third coach the franchise has had since 1969. While organizational stability is a beautiful thing, the Steelers have also shared this philosophy on the field, in a blue-collar city that thrives on beating opponents up on both sides of the ball. The Steelers have been running the ball confidently and successfully for more than a generation. So, all the talk of a new playbook and spreading out the offense shouldn’t change the effectiveness of the running game, but expand the offense into new areas unfamiliar to Steelers fans. To me, the real question isn’t about the change in the offense, but how the new offense will change Willie Parker, Ben Roethlisberger and others you will need to think about on fantasy draft day, because it’s clea
