{"id":172102,"date":"2025-07-01T04:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T04:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/172102\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T04:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T04:41:14","slug":"this-is-a-whole-different-football-team-bill-cowher-says-steelers-offseason-speaks-to-sense-of-urgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/172102\/","title":{"rendered":"‘This Is A Whole Different Football Team:’ Bill Cowher Says Steelers Offseason Speaks To ‘Sense Of Urgency’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers and Miami Dolphins shocked the NFL world today with a late-June blockbuster that saw Pittsburgh acquire<\/a> CB Jalen Ramsey and TE Jonnu Smith in exchange for FS Minkah Fitzpatrick and a late-round pick swap in 2027. It was another big move by the Steelers in an offseason full of them, and former head coach Bill Cowher thinks Pittsburgh\u2019s roster-building strategy shows their urgency to win a playoff game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis makeover on this football team is pretty significant\u2026this is a whole different football team from a roster standpoint, from a starting standpoint. Some of the same staff, but I think again, there\u2019s a lot of excitement. I think it speaks for the sense of urgency that I think when you look at what Omar Khan and Mike Tomlin have done this offseason,\u201d Cowher said on Movin\u2019 The Chains on SiriusXM NFL Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cowher said the reason why this offseason feels un-Steeler-like in terms of how they\u2019re building out their roster is because of their lack of playoff success.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s different because they haven\u2019t won a playoff game in six years, so I think you better take some different measures. So I think again, it speaks to the degree of urgency that they have. We are making wholesale changes. There\u2019s a personality change with what they\u2019re trying to do, maybe not so much schematically.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Cowher said the Steelers haven\u2019t won a playoff game in six years, it\u2019s been a bit longer, with the team\u2019s last playoff win coming after the 2016 season. With an even longer drought than Cowher cited, it really does show that the Steelers are doing whatever it takes to win and win now.<\/p>\n

With Aaron Rodgers in the fold for one year, the Steelers are showing that they\u2019re committed to going all-in. The offseason started with a bang, with the team acquiring WR DK Metcalf via trade, a major move that felt like a surprise, and it\u2019s only continued from there. Signing Rodgers and now making a big move to acquire Ramsey and Smith is the Steelers\u2019 way of sending a message that they want to go for it in 2025.<\/p>\n

Players like Cameron Heyward and T.J. Watt have experienced little to no playoff success during their tenures in Pittsburgh. Those guys aren\u2019t getting any younger, and the narrative around head coach Mike Tomlin has begun to shift with questions about whether he can ever get it done in Pittsburgh again. This is Pittsburgh\u2019s attempt to win for their aging defensive core and for Tomlin to make another playoff run.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been an unconventional offseason, but as Cowher said, sometimes you have to go a different route when things aren\u2019t working. It\u2019s the splashiest offseason the Steelers have had in a long time, maybe ever. It was a little bit surprising last offseason when the team went out and signed Russell Wilson and traded for Justin Fields, but this offseason has topped that with the nature of the moves Pittsburgh has made and Omar Khan\u2019s aggressiveness in trading for talent.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a gamble for the Steelers, especially with the team getting older, but Khan, Tomlin, and co. are hoping their unconventional offseason pays off in the form of a playoff run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers and Miami Dolphins shocked the NFL world today with a late-June blockbuster that saw Pittsburgh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19409,7,1255,38076,6,1256,34809,691],"class_list":{"0":"post-172102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-bill-cowher","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-mike-tomlin","11":"tag-movin-the-chains","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-omar-khan","14":"tag-siriusxm-nfl-radio","15":"tag-trending"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114776144991112248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}