CRITICISM WITHOUT MERIT: Thank goodness Mike Tomlin is employed by a ‘firefighter’

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Arsonist: a person who deliberately sets a house on fire. A perverted arsonist is a person who sets a house on fire and returns to either help extinguish the fire or watch as a gleeful spectator. On August 9, 2022, I posted a column on newpittsburghcourier.com titled: “The merry, merry-go-round of Steelers backup quarterbacks.” I used that column to profile Chris Oladokun, a young, talented Black quarterback trying to make the roster of the Pittsburgh Steelers. The first question that I asked the readers and journalists alike was, “How long will Chris Oladokun stick around?” At that point, before the 2022 season began, I asked another question and that question was: “Have the Steelers and Mason Rudolph been infected with a ‘variant’ of the Landry Jones syndrome? Did the Black and Gold lose former Steelers and (then) Cleveland Browns QB Joshua Dobbs twice because they held onto Landry Jones a bit too long, hoping that Mr. Jones would somehow morph into a quality NFL starting QB?” No one expressed any regret when Dobbs, the ex-Steelers QB, was unceremoniously sent packing and was gobbled up by their AFC North rivals, the Cleveland Browns. Josh Dobbs ended up moving on to also...

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