Scared money don’t make money. That was Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin’s message to his club this week. Coming off a three-game losing streak that may prove too deep a hole to dig out of, he was encouraging his clan to be bold and go for the jugular.
As the scoreboard bears out, it worked. The 34 points scored by the offense was the most that they put up all season, and the most they’d managed to score in a game that they actually won in years. their 23-point win is also quite a rarity, again, the last one coming years ago.