Tim Benz: How are we to believe Art Rooney II is feeling ‘urgency’ when he’s already walking back his ‘impatient’ statements?
Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney II continues to preach the same message. We all continue to wait for a different result.
During his season-ending press conference, Rooney II said, “I think there’s an urgency. I think everybody, myself, Mike (Tomlin), guys that have been on the team for a while, T.J. (Watt), Cam (Heyward), everybody, we’ve had enough of this. It’s time to get some wins. It’s time to take these next steps. So, yeah, I think there’s some urgency here, for sure.”
On Tuesday, during an interview with Bob Pompeani of KDKA-TV, Rooney II went from “urgency” to “impatient.”
“I made that comment for a lot of us who have been in the organization for a while, and I include Mike Tomlin in this; we are getting impatient,” Rooney said. “We want to take that next step. We want to win playoff games and go deep into the postseason. So, we miss being a part of that, and that’s where the urgency is. We need to get back to playing football deep into January and hopefully February.”
I’ll say the same thing about Rooney II being “impatient” that I said before about him feeling “urgency.”
Great. Wonderful. It’s about time.
Now, show me how that is going to manifest because I don’t see it.
You are extending the same head coach who has failed to win a playoff game 11 of 13 years. You are extending the defensive coordinator. You are reinserting a QB who got benched at the end of the previous year. And the new offensive coordinator, Arthur Smith, has exactly the same mentality on that side of the ball as the current head coach.
