VEGAS VITRIOL: Omar Khan, Mike Tomlin turn in A+ draft class for the Steelers

The 2024 NFL Draft is now one for the history books and the Steelers GM Omar Khan and Head Coach Mike Tomlin have crushed the haters again, and many folks, as the late, legendary entertainer James Brown might say, “can’t stand it.” All the NFL “mock drafts” have been placed upon an experimental spacecraft and jettisoned toward the destination of oblivion.& Please folks, please read this column very carefully. The primary reason that this column was titled: “Vegas Vitriol” was to warn the naysayers and doubters not to waste their time, energy and money betting against Khan or Tomlin based on the poisonous and subjective rhetoric that originated in the betting parlors of “Sin City,” even though many of those that created and profited from the betting lines oftentimes purposely and forecasted that Omar Khan and Mike Tomlin could not possibly repeat the success they achieved in the 2023 Draft. Why? The logic for the 2024 draft predictions of Khan was initially based on the nickname, “Khan artist” that the “yinzer” media created for Omar Khan. & Smoke and mirrors, and three card monte were not the reason for the success of the Steelers’ 2023 or the 2024 draft class....