By Alan Robinson
There's no fear of the unknown for the Steelers.
They finished minicamp — one with only two days of practices rather than three — and headed out Thursday for their last vacation time before they reassemble July 26 in Latrobe.
They'll likely be the same team that they are now. And that raises a question: What team is this?
Is this a team in transition, as coach Mike Tomlin said, one that is merely reconfiguring itself as some key players on the three Super Bowl teams of the past eight years head into their post-football careers?
Or is this a team in trouble, one that has lost too much talent from an underachieving 8-8 team of a season ago to begin talking about a Super Bowl?
“The first thing that coach Tomlin said was, ‘Be here, and show up. If you're going to be here, let's go to work,' ” center Maurkice Pouncey said Thursday. “All of the leaders on this team, including myself, need to really show up this year and play football. Everybody is hungry this year. You can tell it's a different vibe in the locker room.”
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