It’s a new season in Pittsburgh.
All-Pros and Pro Bowlers of years ago are goneas Antonio Brown was traded to Oakland this offseason and Le’Veon Bell jetted to New York in free agency. With them allegedly went the drama and distraction 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 normal not as a drawback but as a welcome trial.
“It is an wonderful 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 is ultimately what we’re trying to do is win a championship. So as to do that we are going to have to be at our very best.”
Roethlisberger is not the sole Pittsburgh participant to feel a sense of relief and rejuvenation from the locker area. His protector, David DeCastro, feels similarly, lauding his longtime quarterback from the process.
“I think things have changed pretty 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 great leader to me and I am eager to play with a man like that. I’ve got a lot of respect for him. How could you not? He is one of those men that you get from the huddle with, he brings you up, since he’s so aggressive. I’m just excited about getting back to the field with him.”
Losing Bell and Brown, among the game’s most distinctive and irreplaceable talents, could ruin several clubs’ odds of preserving the same level of competition the following season. However, the feeling inside Pittsburgh’s centre is the exodus of those stars is addition by subtraction and the Steelers should not be seen as worse off heading into 2019.
“I have been here a very long time. We’re still the Pittsburgh Steelers, we’re going to go out and attempt to win every football game,” Roethlisberger said. “It’s 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 have in this area we feel confident we can be pretty great.”
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