It wasn’t a very good weekend to be a Pittsburgh sports fan.

On Saturday, the Pirates basically decided to wave the white flag on the season in mid-January by trading their best starting pitcher, Gerrit Cole, for four random items at Dollar General.

The Steelers then went out Sunday afternoon and said to the Pirates, “Hold my $10 Heinz Field beer.”

Calling what happened to the Steelers a train wreck gives all train wrecks a bad name.

It was an unmitigated disaster.

If you score 42 points against the Jaguars and their defense, if you have a quarterback throw for 469 yards and five TDs against the lauded Jacksonville secondary and if you roll up 545 yards on offense in a playoff game, you should win that game 99 out of 100 times.

The Steelers will say, “Well, this was that one-out-of-a-hundred kind of day.”

It wasn’t.

The field was littered with mistakes.

Most coming from the Steelers’ sideline.

Head coach Mike Tomlin and his staff were completely out-coached. They made decisions that junior high coaches would never make:

Fourth and less than a yard and down 14-0: call a pitch play against one of the best pursuing defenses in the league.

Either Ben Roethlisberger has a no-QB-sneaks clause in his contract, or it was another example of the Steelers trying to get cute.

Onside kick with two timeouts left and the two minute warning.

The Jaguars went three-and-out, but it didn’t matter. The disaster of an onside kick attempt put Jacksonville in field goal range when three points all but ended the game.

No time out before the two-minute warning, letting nine second run off the clock.

Another head-scratcher. Those are nine seconds you’ll never get back. Nine seconds that could have made a difference.

Not kicking the field goal after the intentional grounding call.

Line up. Spike the ball. Kick the field goal with 35 seconds on the clock. Then, at least if you can actually execute an onside kick this time around, you have at worst two desperation passes into the end zone.

Scoring with one second left gives you zero chance.

This has been a symptom for the Steelers for years. It’s been covered up mostly because of their run of success.

It was glaring Sunday.

So was the poor play-calling. Time has run out on this coaching staff.

Offensive coordinator Todd Haley is like that 10-year-old kid who plays Madden and likes to run bubble screens over and over and over again.

The defense deserves a heaping helping of the blame as well, turning Blake Bortles into Johnny Unitas.

Jacksonville had one play for a loss: Bortles’ kneel down at the end of the first half.

You cannot give up 45 points to the Jags. You just can’t do it.

Yet the Steelers did.

And capped a really bad sports weekend in the ‘Burgh.

Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.