Matt Canada lost the players and had no answers for fixing Pittsburgh Steelers offense

Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has never fired an assistant coach in the middle of a season.

Offensive coordinator Matt Canada’s unit performed so poorly that Tomlin had no choice. After all, Pittsburgh (6-4) is just 1.5 games behind first-place Baltimore (8-3) and amid the AFC wild-card race.

The Steelers don’t play this week, making it a good time to elevate quarterbacks coach Mike Sullivan or assistant Glenn Thomas to play-caller.

Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has never fired an assistant coach in the middle of a season.

Offensive coordinator Matt Canada’s unit performed so poorly that Tomlin had no choice. After all, Pittsburgh (6-4) is just 1.5 games behind first-place Baltimore (8-3) and amid the AFC wild-card race.

The Steelers don’t play this week, making it a good time to elevate quarterbacks coach Mike Sullivan or assistant Glenn Thomas to play-caller.

“Matt Canada has been relieved of his duties as offensive coordinator. I appreciate Matt’s hard work and dedication, and I wish him the best moving forward in his career,” Tomlin said in a statement Tuesday morning.

“You can look at it two ways,” Harris said to reporters. “You can look at the record and say, ‘OK, we’re still good right now.’ Or you can look at the record and be like, ‘If we keep playing this type of football, how long is that [expletive] going to last?

“I look at it like, ‘How long is that [expletive] going to last? Y’all can look at it like it’s a good record, but it’s the NFL. Winning how we did is not going to get us anywhere.”

“There’s a lot of stuff that goes around that you guys don’t see. I’m at a point where I’m just tired of this [expletive].”

A week earlier, receiver Diontae Johnson complained so vigorously on the sideline that he reportedly had to be separated from an assistant coach. Then, he had an intense conversation with Tomlin on the sideline.

A few weeks earlier, receiver George Pickens scrubbed his IG account of Steelers-related content and posted “free me” after a couple of games with minimal production.