The Terrible Take - Episode 1726 - November 24, 2025

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The Terrible Podcast

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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November 24, 2025 - For Episode 1,726 this Monday afternoon, Ross McCorkle wonders if Mike Tomlin will ever adapt from the (failing) way he prefers to "engineer victory". ⁠⁠steelersdepot.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.0	slash AI dash glasses. Welcome to The Terrible Take, a daily segment telling Steelers Nation,
1:03.6	what's on our mind. I'm Ross McCorkel. Mike Tomlin has talked about it several times over the
1:08.6	19 plus years that he's been with the Pittsburgh Steelers,
1:12.1	and more so recently as he shifted to a hyper-conservative style of coaching, he has a very
1:18.5	particular way that he likes to engineer victory. That is, take the ball away, protect the
1:25.4	ball on offense, play complementary football, and just basically grind teams down to a win by any means necessary.
1:33.2	It doesn't need to look pretty, but if you play conservatively enough, he thinks that the Steelers can win a lot of games.
1:39.4	And I suppose they have to a certain extent, or else Tomlin wouldn't have his basically meaningless,
1:45.5	18 and maybe counting years of non-losing seasons.
1:50.0	But look at the results.
1:51.3	This is not a team that can win that way, not at all.
1:55.6	Dating back to the end of last season, it hasn't been a team that can win that way.
2:00.1	When the 2024 team was at its best,
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