The similarities between what happened to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday was eerily similar to what happened to the University of Colorado Buffaloes on Saturday afternoon. The Steelers and Buffs both went into their respective games on a hot streak and were preparing to square off against inferior opponents.
And both teams severely overestimated their opponents and took huge losses. The Steelers fell to the then 2-8 Cleveland Browns and the Buffs got blown out by the KU Jayhawks.
The difference between the two was how it was handled by the head coach. Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin stayed his usual, robotic self, refusing to acknowledge the loss was anything more than just technical errors.
“Not one of you can say you played your best game, nobody here can say they played good. See the problem is you guys are intoxicated with success”
Deion Sanders talking to the Colorado Buffaloes roster after tonight’s loss to the Kansas Jayhawks pic.twitter.com/slopST0QS3
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Meanwhile, you have Sanders being open and frank about himself and the players getting caught up in their own success and not playing hard enough against the Jayhawks or coaching well enough.
It would be so refreshing to hear Tomlin speak this honestly about his team. And it might put everyone on the team on notice that you can’t just continue to offer up talking points and not make any real changes.