Staring at an 0-2 start with the Chicago Bears coming to town on Sunday, the Steelers held a veterans/captains meeting earlier this week to try and address the sinking attitudes of the team as a whole. Jory Rand was all over it on Twitter:
1 change to come out of Steelers veterans meeting yesterday is younger players arent allowed to play pool or ping-pong during business hours
— Jory Rand (@JoryRand) September 19, 2013
FIXED IT!
Seriously, I'm all for the players figuring out why they suck at football so far, but what exactly does this accomplish? Were Mike Adams and Marcus Gilbert playing so much ping pong that they forgot how to actually block in a football game? Will they get their acts together because they had to watch Ben Roethlisberger and Heath Miller play pool instead?
Ike Taylor coyly talked of punishments for breaking rules, but wouldn't say what rules were broken, nor what the punishments would be.
— Jory Rand (@JoryRand) September 19, 2013
Anyone else get the sense that older guys are just going to make up rules to give them an excuse to tape someone to a goalpost? Total frat move. Don't know how this does anything but create a divide between younger players and older players (That must be the secret to winning football games).
Isaac Redman: "Young guys can't play pool, ping pong or shuffleboard. Sucks to be a young guy, I guess."
— Jory Rand (@JoryRand) September 19, 2013
This is embarrassing. If the players aren't focused on winning, there's a problem A) with those players and B) with the coaches. Now one step away from making pledges clean the basement with toothbrushes, the Steelers are entering a bizarre territory not only as a team, but simply as a group of grown men. I know winning cures everything, but I've yet to see anything about taking steps to beat the Chicago Bears on Sunday night.
