Content and satisfied with mediocrity is the epitome of what the Steelers have become. The fact that they even "promoted" Canada without a legitimate search was the laziest thing an NFL team could do. Dumping Kenny Pickett wasn't any sort of genius move. They dumped a young QB that they buried on the depth chart from the day they started drills and replaced him with an aging QB that was run out of town in Denver and a young QB that was run out of Chicago. Add in Rudolph's exploits and you had four guys that have pretty much all performed the same because the offensive philosophy is archaic and there is almost no talent around them. The best receiver is a TE who can't block, the OL has somehow regressed, and the RB you didn't need (but I guess they are brilliantly moving on from) never amounted to anything. Oh, and the one guy that can run the ball and inject a little bit of playmaking into the offense regularly gets benched in pivotal situations. It's tired and the whole thing only works well enough to be just okay enough that they can scapegoat their way out of a fan uprising every year. Will be Pickens this year. Kenny last year. Was the Center the year before that. Juju before that. Claypool. So on and so forth. All we get is gibberish and nonsense and the local media gushes over the ringleader without any critical evaluation of what's actually wrong. So yeah, content is probably pretty accurate because they just keep doing the same thing and seem genuinely surprised it isn't working.Doesn’t seem to me that the ownership and staff are content with it. That's why they drafted Kenny Pickett. That’s also why they dumped Kenny Pickett and brought in Russell Wilson and Justin Fields. Why they finally dumped Canada and brought in Smith. Why they brought in the guy from Philly to serve as assistant GM (or whatever title he has) and to spearhead their draft strategy to build offensive and defensive lines like in Philly, etc.
Again, a lot of things to complain about with the Steelers, the moves they’ve made with staff hires and player acquisitions haven’t elevated them from a little better than average to elite. But it is inaccurate to say they haven’t tried and are satisfied with mediocre.