TAMPA, Fla. -- "A little sample of what’s to come. I’m excited, to be honest.”
That was Diontae Johnson, but it could've been absolutely anybody across the scope of the Steelers' broad Nation, this after beating the Buccaneers, 27-17, in their preseason opener Friday night at Raymond James Stadium.
Not because of the outcome, for sure.
Not even because of a plethora of positive performances throughout.
But rather, because the first-team offense took the field with the ball planted at the Pittsburgh 17 and, 10 plays later -- feeling in a way like 10 years later based on the previous time any of us had witnessed this level of spread-it-around, peanut-butter-level smoothness -- punctuated what all involved knew would be their only series of the evening with this:
Gorgeous, huh?