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    Aug 28, 2019 4 minutes
    BOB LABRIOLA

    It’s being cast as a kind of referendum. Tranquility vs. turmoil. Team vs. talent.

    If only it were that simple.

    This overly simplistic, some might even call it lazy, approach to the 2019 Steelers can be traced to the issues/distractions the team no longer will have as a result of the running back who now plays for the New York Jets and the wide receiver who may or may not be playing for the Oakland Raiders, pending the outcome of his most recent helmetgate grievance. Not to be sarcastic.

    It’s overly simplistic to assign complete culpability for the Steelers’ playoffless 9-6-1 finish in 2018 to some combination of Le’Veon

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