Ben Roethlisberger says Steelers culture is lost on current team
Coach Tomlin is seemingly catching heat from all angles at this point. Whether it be current players defying his comments, past Pro Bowlers saying his messaging has run dry, or close friends suggesting he could up and leave town, it hasn't been easily sailing over the past two weeks for Coach T. And now, the […]
Coach Tomlin is seemingly catching heat from all angles at this point.
Whether it be current players defying his comments, past Pro Bowlers saying his messaging has run dry, or close friends suggesting he could up and leave town, it hasn't been easily sailing over the past two weeks for Coach T.
And now, the man he won a Super Bowl alongside of at QB: Big Ben Roethlisbreger has taken a shot at Coach Tomlin:
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"I said, (and one of the leaders at the time kind of got on me for saying it) that I felt some guys on the team aren't in it for the team, they're in it for themselves, Roethlisberger said on a recent episode of his podcast Footbahlin. Well, now some of the guys on the team are saying the same thing. So maybe I wasn't too far when I said that. I know that I'm retired, I'm not in the locker room, I get it. It just feels like that. It just feels like something that's been lost on this team a little bit. It just feels like the Steeler Way is just not."
But not only did Big Ben question the leadership that is going on in Pittsburgh, he also disapproved of in-game management, especially in terms of the clock and timeouts:
"Having timeouts is huge, added Roethlisberger. Sometimes, (I know it sounds crazy) sometimes it's better to take the five-yard delay of game than it is to waste a timeout. Because at the end of that game, If we had one more timeout, we have another chance. And so when you lose timeouts because of silly penalties…to me, that's bad. It's bad coaching."
The "Silly penalties" that Ben is referring to would be the illegal formations and too many men on the field penalties that have plagued the Steelers over the past few weeks.
Most penalties, (but those two especially) are signs of a lack of preparation from the team, which is an indictment on the coaching staff.
So it's safe to say Coach Tomlin is taking it on the shins and from all directions at this point. But if anything is true in the NFL, it's that winning cures all in this league, and that's something Tomlin looks to do with a month left and a playoff spot on the line.
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