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 agency. Together with them allegedly went the play and diversion that’s characterized Steelers soccer over the last half-decade.
The final of the Killer B’s in the Steel City, Ben Roethlisberger sees the Steelers’ new normal not as a setback but as a welcome trial.
“It is an wonderful 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 are the best because that is ultimately what we are trying to do is win a tournament. So as to accomplish 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 relief from the locker area. His protector, David DeCastro, feels equally, lauding his longtime quarterback from the procedure.
“I think things have changed pretty well around here, more team-oriented, and that’s the first measure,” DeCastro said, per SteelersNow.com. “I think everyone is on precisely the same page. Ben’s been a fantastic pioneer to me and I am excited to play a man like that. I have a lot of respect for him personally. How do you? He’s one of those guys that you get in the huddle together, he brings you up, because he’s so competitive. I’m just excited about getting back to the field .”
Losing Bell and Brown, two of the game’s most unique and irreplaceable talents, could ruin several clubs’ chances of preserving the identical level of competition the following season. But the feeling within Pittsburgh’s facility is that the exodus of those stars is addition by subtraction and the Steelers should not be viewed as worse off heading into 2019.
“I have been here a long time. We’re still the Pittsburgh Steelers, we’re going to head out and try to win every football game,” Roethlisberger said. “It has been quite a while since we have been into the major one. But like I said if everybody puts on the effort that we all believe we can an with the ability we have in this area we feel confident we can be pretty great.”
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