It’s a Brand New season in Pittsburgh.
All-Pros and Pro Bowlers of years ago are gone, as Antonio Brown was traded to Oakland this offseason and Le’Veon Bell jetted to New York in free service. Together with them allegedly went the drama 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 drawback but as a welcome trial.
“It’s 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 whatever we can to be the best because that is ultimately what we’re trying to do is win a championship. So as to do that we are all going to have to be at our best.”
Roethlisberger is not the sole Pittsburgh player to feel a sense of relief and rejuvenation in the locker area. His guard, David DeCastro, feels similarly, lauding his longtime quarterback in the procedure.
“I believe things have changed fairly well around here, more team-oriented, and that’s the first step,” DeCastro said, per SteelersNow.com. “I think everybody is on precisely the same page. Ben’s always been a fantastic leader to me and I am eager to play with a man like this. I have a lot of respect for him. How do you? He is one of these men that you get in the huddle with, he brings you up, since he’s so aggressive. I am just looking forward to getting back to the field with him.”
Losing Bell and Brown, two of the game’s most distinctive and irreplaceable talents, would ruin some clubs’ chances of maintaining the identical level of competition the following season. But the feeling within 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 long time. We are still the Pittsburgh Steelers, we’re still going to go out and attempt to win every football game,” Roethlisberger said. “It has been a long time since we have been to the big one. However, like I said when everyone puts forth the effort that most of us believe we could an with the ability we’ve got in this room we feel confident we can be pretty great.”
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