Steelers owner dismisses rebuild talk after Tomlin departure

Art Rooney II said Mike Tomlin's successor will be expected to contend every season as Pittsburgh head coach

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00:00Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure why you waste a year of your life not trying to contend.

00:05Obviously, your roster is what it is every year.

00:07It changes every year, and so you deal with, you know, what you have every year

00:10and try to, you know, put yourself in position to compete every year.

00:14And sometimes you have the horses, sometimes you don't, but I think you try every year.

00:18Like I said, you know, I'm not going to say, well, you know,

00:21we're going to take a couple years to figure this out, and then we'll try to compete.

00:24So I think you try every year.

00:26I mean, you know, and as I said, some years you have the horses to really get there,

00:30some years you don't, but you try every year in my view.

00:34No, I don't know if it's a rebuild.

00:36I mean, it's a new coach, so there will be changes,

00:38and, you know, we'll have to all get comfortable with kind of the plan.

00:43So, you know, whether you call it a rebuild or not, you know, I don't like that word that much.

00:49You know, we'll try to compete day one if we can.