Resilience leads to relevance

When the Steelers assembled at Greater Pittsburgh International Airport for a Saturday morning flight that would take them to LAX on Oct. 12, included in the baggage they were transporting were a 1-4 record and the reality that the people who had occupied the top two lines of their depth chart at quarterback when this regular season began would be unable to help them on the trip.

The Steelers now are halfway through a season that has been filled with potholes and obstacles, some of their own doing and others seemingly a perverted gift from the football gods. They played that game against the