Ben Roethlisberger criticized Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Steelers again on his podcast, Footbahlin. The former Super Bowl champion believes the team has become stuck in the past and has gradually lost its essence.
âYou have to evolve. You have to evolve as a team. You canâs just assume that everybody wants to come and play for the Steelers anymore like they used to. People used to want to come play for Pittsburgh because you had a chance every year to win a Super Bowl. I used to joke that weâd be up three or four points before the game even started. Right? Because there were people saying like: âMan, weâre about to get hit in the mouth by these guys.â I think that youâve lost a little bit of that.â
The situation is critical for the Steelers at the moment. Itâs been 16 years since they won a championship, eight seasons without playoff victories, and total uncertainty at the quarterback position among Russell Wilson, Justin Fields, or a free agent.
What did Ben Roethlisberger say about Mike Tomlin?
Ben Roethlisberger said that the Pittsburgh Steelers have lost one of the key traits that characterized them: physicality. In fact, for the legend, itâs inconceivable that they allowed nearly 300 rushing yards in a playoff game, considering the history of the franchise.
âI get itâs all about winning games, but itâs got to be done in a physical type of way. In a way that you take pride in certain things. Iâm not saying that the team doesnât have it, Iâm sure Tomlin is still preaching it about that, but, you donât hear about guys running for 200 yards on the Pittsburgh Steelers. 150, 180, things like that. It just didnât happen. So, the game evolves, teams evolve, players evolve. A team has to know when theyâre playing the Pittsburgh Steelers that theyâre going to be hurting. Same way I knew when I was playing Baltimore. I donât know if thatâs been lost from players now.â
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