Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.
Antonio Brown has been allowed to act like a clown for years now. He 100% has been coddled and allowed to act "above the team" by both Tomlin and the Rooneys.
Some of us have been pointing out the selfishness and me-first attitude that Tomlin has fostered among the players. I'm old school and I don't like celebrations at all. Not even first down signals. But I recognize that I am a distinct minority in that attitude. But here's the thing: Brown and others have taken the celebrations to the point where they get penalized (actually hurt the team) and Tomlin has basically shrugged it off.
This team has been focused on its own high-school girls club drama for quite a while now. This team is unfocused, undisciplined and in complete meltdown mode. Now it's blame Brown time. Run him out of town! Boo, Antonio Brown. He's such a jerk, etc.
Yeah. Well, you have to be willfully blind not to see the pattern of mismanagement and idiocy that has gotten the Steelers to this point. This team, from the Rooneys to Tomlin to Ben himself, have basically squandered the 2nd half of Ben's career by allowing this environment to take root. Now, it's too late to fix.
Just about the only cure is to either fire Tomlin or have Tomlin re-establish himself as a disciplinarian with Brown being sacrificed as a scapegoat. Either scenario is a disaster, but I don't see how Tomlin and Brown can co-exist without this team being set up for a repeat circus performance.
Brown has not been penalized a single time this season or last for celebrations.
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How is it missing the point? You are the one who said "But here's the thing: Brown and others have taken the celebrations to the point where they get penalized (actually hurt the team) and Tomlin has basically shrugged it off."
It turns out that AB has not, in fact, been penalized and thus hurt the team. While a tantrum on the sideline might be seen by some as passion it could also be seen as whining. Who cares if the guy rode in a helicopter to camp? I don't care if he rode the friggin' space shuttle as long as he minds his busines..
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