{"id":249077,"date":"2026-07-22T05:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249077\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:12:37","slug":"thats-what-the-steelers-do-prisco-sees-issues-in-pittsburgh-that-will-lead-to-another-mediocre-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249077\/","title":{"rendered":"‘That’s What The Steelers Do’: Prisco Sees ‘Issues’ In Pittsburgh That Will Lead To Another Mediocre Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many Pittsburgh Steelers fans clamored for the team to part ways with Mike Tomlin in recent years. The Steelers have felt stuck in recent years.<\/a> While they\u2019ve remained in the playoff picture, they haven\u2019t won a postseason game in almost a decade. That led to Tomlin stepping down this offseason, but Pete Prisco sees more of the same coming for the Steelers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they\u2019re the third team in the division,\u201d Prisco said Tuesday on the 2 Pros and A Cup of Joe podcast.<\/a> \u201cThey\u2019ll win nine games, eight, but not make the playoffs. That\u2019s what the Steelers do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prisco isn\u2019t too far off base. The Steelers have finished each of the last three seasons at 10-7, and they had two nine-win seasons before that. Tomlin never had a losing season in Pittsburgh, but just making the playoffs hasn\u2019t been good enough, either.<\/p>\n

However, Prisco still might be selling the Steelers a little short. Yes, they\u2019ve hovered around the same record in recent years, but they also won the AFC North last year. The Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals have franchise quarterbacks, but that\u2019s not always enough to win in the NFL. They have holes at other positions that held them back last year.<\/p>\n

Also, while Prisco hasn\u2019t been as pessimistic about<\/a> Aaron Rodgers as other analysts, his faith in the four-time NF: MVP \u2014 and the team around him this year \u2014 is starting to dwindle.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been a great, great, great player. He just wasn\u2019t a great, great, great player last year. Wasn\u2019t very good last year,\u201d Prisco said. \u201cAnd I do like Aaron Rodgers, but I think that that team has some issues as well. Could they get 10 [wins] and get into the playoffs?<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe, because they do still have talent on defense. But they didn\u2019t run the ball [well in 2025]. They have some offensive line issues. They\u2019ve had issues over the years. T.J. Watt wasn\u2019t as good last year. There\u2019s a lot of things at play.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Steelers indeed have some major question marks, including the age of some of their top players. Father Time could catch up to them, and that could leave Pittsburgh in a tough spot this year.<\/p>\n

However, the Steelers shouldn\u2019t be counted out yet. Much like how they\u2019ve basically been the same team in recent years, the discussion around them hasn\u2019t really changed. The past few years have seen many analysts give negative predictions about the Steelers, and yet, the bottom hasn\u2019t fallen out in Pittsburgh yet.<\/p>\n

Perhaps a new coaching staff will<\/a> spark the Steelers. Mike McCarthy has had success in two other stints as an NFL head coach, and he\u2019s assembled a solid staff. Could the Steelers finish with yet another 10-7 season? Maybe, but that doesn\u2019t matter if they finally win a playoff game. That\u2019s the ceiling that they\u2019re trying to break through. They\u2019ve proven doubters wrong in the past, and they could do it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many Pittsburgh Steelers fans clamored for the team to part ways with Mike Tomlin in recent years. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[106584,106585,73,75,74,1833],"class_list":["post-249077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-2-pros-and-a-cup-of-joe","tag-pete-prisco","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}