It’s a new season in Pittsburgh.
All-Pros and Pro Bowlers of years past are goneas Antonio Brown was traded to Oakland this offseason and Le’Veon Bell jetted to New York in free service. With them allegedly went the drama and distraction that has characterized Steelers football over the last half-decade.
The last of the Killer B’s in the Steel City, Ben Roethlisberger sees the Steelers’ new normal not as a drawback but as a welcome trial.
“It is an awesome challenge for all of us,” Roethlisberger said Tuesday at the start of Pittsburgh’s mandatory minicamp, per ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. “To get to know each other to learn to do everything we can to be the best because that’s ultimately what we’re attempting to do is win a tournament. In order to do that we’re all going to have to be at our best.”
Roethlisberger isn’t the sole Pittsburgh player to feel a sense of relief and rejuvenation in the locker room. His protector, David DeCastro, feels equally, lauding his longtime quarterback from the procedure.
“I believe things have changed fairly well around here, more team-oriented, and that’s the first measure,” DeCastro said, per SteelersNow.com. “I think everyone is on the same page. Ben’s been a fantastic leader to me and I am excited to play with a guy like this. I have a lot of respect for him. How do you? He is one of those men that you get from the huddle together, he brings you up, since he’s so competitive. I am just excited about getting back on the field with him.”
Losing Bell and Brown, two of the game’s most distinctive and irreplaceable talents, would kill several clubs’ odds of maintaining the identical level of competition the following season. However, the feeling within Pittsburgh’s centre is the exodus of those stars is addition by subtraction and that the Steelers should not be seen as worse off going into 2019.
“I’ve been here a long time. We are still the Pittsburgh Steelers, we are going to go out and attempt to win every football game,” Roethlisberger said. “It’s been a long time since we’ve been to the major one. However, like I said when everybody puts on the effort which we all think we can an with the talent we have in this room we feel confident that we could be pretty great.”
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