We like to complain about Pitt's offense being outdated, well, the Steelers offense is legitimately in the stone ages. Canada is a part of it, but I think Tomlin wants the offense to be this conservative. Two straight coordinators playing this style of ball. Three QBs under Canada not being able to put up points. It speaks more to the scheme than to the players, IMO.
I think this largely true. Canada has far more imagination than his pro offense has shown so far. It can be debated whether his college designs would work against NFL defenses. But other than a random WR run, we see little to nothing of his Pitt offense.
Art see the stage two years ago in one of the annual royal interviews he grants: he wanted a running offense. To Tomlin’s credit/defense, by reinforcing this with his OC, he is doing what his boss wants.
And there are hints that running is becoming more in vogue in the league … but not with the top playoff teams. Most that do it now do so less out of principle, but seem resigned that they don’t have the offensive coaching and talent that the top teams have, so they are merely going to try to slow games down and hope to win by attrition, rather than look to outscore anyone. But by definition the NFL is the best of the best, so every team DOES have talent, and certainly could be more imaginative and aggressive than they show.
You can see why a Georgia Texh would play that way against Pitt last year; just sit on the ball and hope Pitt self destructs (which we happily obliged); GT had no talent and literally no coach so it made sense. But the NFL is loaded (at least theoretically) with the elite talent in spades.
Fans in towns like ours, that look to be 10,000 years difference in competence from KC, deserve to be disappointed. Nobody else has a Mahomes of course, but they still have sh1t loads of elite talent.
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