It’s a 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 agency. Together with them supposedly went the drama and diversion 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 ordinary less a setback 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’s ultimately what we are attempting to do is win a championship. In order to do that we are going to have to be at our very best.”
Roethlisberger isn’t the sole Pittsburgh participant to feel a sense of relief and rejuvenation in the locker area. His guard, David DeCastro, feels similarly, lauding his longtime quarterback in the process.
“I think things have changed pretty well around here, more team-oriented, and that is the first step,” DeCastro said, per SteelersNow.com. “I think everyone is on precisely the same page. Ben’s been a great leader to me and I’m excited to play a man like that. I have a ton of respect for him personally. How do you? He’s one of those guys that you get in the huddle with, he brings you up, since he’s so aggressive. I am just looking forward to getting back on the field .”
Losing Bell and Brown, among the game’s most distinctive and irreplaceable talents, could ruin several clubs’ odds of preserving 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 the Steelers should not be seen as worse off heading into 2019.
“I’ve been here a very long time. We are still the Pittsburgh Steelers, we’re going to go out and try to win every football game,” Roethlisberger said. “It’s been quite a while since we have been to the major one. But like I said if everybody puts on the effort which we all think we can an with the talent we have in this area we feel confident we can be pretty good.”
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