A Familiar Steelers Formula

Once upon a time a football team hired a young coach to serve as the leader of and produce championships for a hardnosed football team.  This coach along with a dedicated owner and general manager worked together beautifully and found talent throughout the draft.  This coach was a motivator and became a winner with this organization.  He had dominating linebackers, a defensive line that was stingy against the run, defensive backs that were stingy against the pass, a dominant quarterback, and a stable of running backs and receivers that would make any team jealous. 

That coach of course was Chuck Noll.  Who else would I be talking about?  Chuck had THE team.  Four Lombardi Trophies.  He had an amazing owner that was loved by everyone in Pittsburgh; he had a GM that found talent like it grew on trees.  He had Lambert, Ham, Greene, Greenwood, Blount, Shell, Bradshaw, Swann, Stallworth, Harris, Bleier and on and on.  A team like that is a once in a lifetime thing, right?

You know, come to think of it, there are some similarities with that team to the current team.  Not saying this team is as good as that team, but they are starting to play pretty well.  Let’s take a look at this and see what we come up with.

Coach - Mike Tomlin, young impressive coach, will reach 60 wins faster than Bill Cowher: Check

Owner -  Dan Rooney and Art Rooney, son and grandson of Art Rooney: Check, check

GM - Kevin Colbert:  3 Super Bowl appearances under his direction, finds talent like it grows on trees: Check

Dominating Linebackers - in LaMarr Woodley and James Harrison: check

Stingy D-Line -  held Giants to 68 yards rushing Sunday.  That guy at nose tackle is an ageless wonder stopping  up the middle:  check

Stingy D-backs -  Held Eli to 125 yards Sunday.  Steelers No.1 defense against the pass: check

Dominant QB -  amazing in 3^rd down conversions, 2 Super Bowl Wins.  All time Steelers yardage leader: check

Stable of Running Backs -  Dwyer, Redman, Mendenhall, Rainney, who’s number 1, take your pick: check

Stable of Wide Receivers -  Wallace, Brown, Sanders, Cotchery: check

Best all around TE in football -  Heeeeeaaaaaaatttttttthhhhhhh!: check

Like I said, those Chuck Noll teams won 4 Super Bowls, and in this era of free agency it is tough to keep a team together, but the talent and depth on the current edition of the Steelers is ridiculous.  If the young group of high draft choice defensive lineman provide ½ the level of play that the now retired Aaron Smith did, than we may be looking at another run.  As the saying goes, the Steelers don’t rebuild, they reload.