Those who coach or manage a professional sports team tend to show two distinct phases when dealing with injuries:
1. Standard's the standard, blah, blah.
2. Find me some sturdier bodies.
And the chasm between those steps couldn't possibly sound more contradictory, from hearing Mike Tomlin's passionate preachings about 'next man up,' to Mike Sullivan's 'we just play,' to Clint Hurdle's 'shower well' -- even as we all realized they'd much rather have their primary players participating -- right through to the stage where the next chance would come for action.
For the Steelers, pending the passing of the ongoing apocalypse, this is shaping up to the summer of ... well, shaping up or shipping out.
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