It’s a new season in Pittsburgh.
All-Pros and Pro Bowlers of years ago are gone, as Antonio Brown has been traded to Oakland this offseason and Le’Veon Bell jetted to New York in free service. With them supposedly went the drama and diversion that’s characterized Steelers soccer over the past half-decade.
The final of the Killer B’s in the Steel City, Ben Roethlisberger sees the Steelers’ new ordinary less a setback but as a welcome trial.
“It’s an awesome challenge for each of us,” Roethlisberger said Tuesday at the start of Pittsburgh’s mandatory minicamp, per ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. “To get to know one another to learn to do whatever we are the best because that’s ultimately what we’re trying to do is win a championship. In order to accomplish that we’re going to have to be at our very best.”
Roethlisberger is not the sole Pittsburgh participant to feel a sense of relief and relief from the locker area. His protector, David DeCastro, feels equally, lauding his longtime quarterback from the process.
“I think things have changed fairly well around here, more team-oriented, and that is the very first measure,” DeCastro said, per SteelersNow.com. “I think everyone is on the same page. Ben’s always been a fantastic leader to me and I am excited to play a guy like that. I have a lot of respect for him. How could you not? He’s one of those men that you get in the huddle together, he brings you up, because he’s so competitive. I’m just excited about getting back on the field with him.”
Losing Bell and Brown, among the game’s most distinctive and irreplaceable talents, would ruin several clubs’ odds of maintaining the identical amount of competition the following season. But the feeling inside Pittsburgh’s facility is that the exodus of these stars is addition by subtraction and the Steelers shouldn’t be viewed as worse off heading into 2019.
“I have been here a very long time. We are still the Pittsburgh Steelers, we’re still going to go out and try to win every football game,” Roethlisberger said. “It has been a long time since we’ve been into the major one. However, like I said when everyone puts on the effort which most of us think we can an with the ability we have in this room we feel confident that we could be quite great.”
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