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DeCastro Criticizes Steelers For Focusing on Patriots

He's talking about Mitchell and Leveon.. more specifically Mitchell who is the worst safety we've had since I can even remember. Tyrone Carter was a ten times better player. Mitchell does absolutely nothing.
 
Here's what I don't get...every time Bell runs to Decastros side he breaks off nice runs. Yet he still continues to run left, his shimmy shake 2 step hesitation and get swallowed up behind the LOS.

Decastro is all heart, sadly I don't think a lot of these guys give a damn they still cash their big fancy check and act like oh well.
 
Skott said:
Here's what I don't get...every time Bell runs to Decastros side he breaks off nice runs. Yet he still continues to run left, his shimmy shake 2 step hesitation and get swallowed up behind the LOS.

Decastro is all heart, sadly I don't think a lot of these guys give a damn they still cash their big fancy check and act like oh well.
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DeCastro was probably the most upset and pissed off player during interviews. AB was really bummed too.
 
That's all well and good. Did he tell them to shut the **** up in the locker room? Him talking to the press is no different than the rest of them doing it. And with all due respect, once you're on the field and get punched in the mouth the first drive on both sides of the ball, nobody is thinking NE any more. It's a bull **** excuse after the fact.
 
Supersteeler said:
That's pretty damning from a normally quiet guy like Decastro.
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So true. If he said this publicly you can imagine how he is seething on the inside. This kind of selfish **** is why I think Ben questions his resolve to come back year to year, going from a veteran team with true leaders like Hines, Aaron Smith, Hartings, etc to this immature me first hip hop mentality has to be killing him.
 
I just have this feeling Mitchell is going to get released. and I think the message is going to come from the man at the top. it won't be Tomlins decesion
 
SteelDan said:
So true. If he said this publicly you can imagine how he is seething on the inside. This kind of selfish **** is why I think Ben questions his resolve to come back year to year, going from a veteran team with true leaders like Hines, Aaron Smith, Hartings, etc to this immature me first hip hop mentality has to be killing him.[/QUOTE

Hip Hop mentality? What the **** does that mean? You do know Ben talks to the press when he shouldn't too, right?
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You don;t know what it means? It mean we celebrate TDS 3 TDs down, it means we talk retiring the week of the playoff game, irt means we make rap albums when we have no talent.it means we bake on the way to a team flight. It is the me first culture of young immature millionaires who don't care about the team first and foremost. It means we have a head coach who allows and condones this behavior, is that clear enough for you ?
 
if only our coach was as smart as decastro
 
Supersteeler said:
That's pretty damning from a normally quiet guy like Decastro.
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Very telling. DeCastro is a very loyal and quiet type. And he’s right. A good head coach gets his team to focus. The Steelers were not focused

I’d really like to see Tomlin’s audio during this game. He looked like a deer in the headlights.

I wish Ben has a closed door meeting with Rooney and says I’ll play next year but Tomlin has to go.


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I agree with David. Keep your mouth shut & do your talking on the field.
 
SteelChip said:
Fixed it for ya Coach. Ben and Haley are not .....well, let's just say, they are not.
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We won't be fixed until Tomlin leaves. Ben should force a power play.
 
I'll be honest. What I think would benefit the team the most going forward is a culture change. We have become a team with too many divas and big talkers who are more worried about their next contract than winning. Bell and Bryant come to mind immediately. AB is a diva too but he usually puts his money where his mouth is and delivers. The other two are pretty much a constant distraction. Mitchell also runs his mouth constantly and can't back it up. I think the inmates are running the asylum in a lot of cases with this group. I think a lot of it boils down to a lax atmosphere by the coaching staff and a "me first" attitude by the players.

I don't think we will a SB until that changes. The more I hear about what ******** the players were acting like before the Jags game, the more I think they deserved to lose and the less upset I am about losing it.
 
Supersteeler said:
I'll be honest. What I think would benefit the team the most going forward is a culture change. We have become a team with too many divas and big talkers who are more worried about their next contract than winning. Bell and Bryant come to mind immediately. AB is a diva too but he usually puts his money where his mouth is and delivers. The other two are pretty much a constant distraction. Mitchell also runs his mouth constantly and can't back it up. I think the inmates are running the asylum in a lot of cases with this group. I think a lot of it boils down to a lax atmosphere by the coaching staff and a "me first" attitude by the players.

I don't think we will a SB until that changes. The more I hear about what ******** the players were acting like before the Jags game, the more I think they deserved to lose and the less upset I am about losing it.
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Honestly, Tomlin needs to start being a coach and not a friend. Tell these players to keep their damn mouth's shut and not worry if they like you or not.
Players do not love Bellichick(ask Tom Brady) but they respect the hell out of him and know he's going to put them in the best place to win the game which is what matters.
This is a game of winning not being a loving family at all times.
 
Supersteeler said:
I'll be honest. What I think would benefit the team the most going forward is a culture change. We have become a team with too many divas and big talkers who are more worried about their next contract than winning. Bell and Bryant come to mind immediately. AB is a diva too but he usually puts his money where his mouth is and delivers. The other two are pretty much a constant distraction. Mitchell also runs his mouth constantly and can't back it up. I think the inmates are running the asylum in a lot of cases with this group. I think a lot of it boils down to a lax atmosphere by the coaching staff and a "me first" attitude by the players.

I don't think we will a SB until that changes. The more I hear about what ******** the players were acting like before the Jags game, the more I think they deserved to lose and the less upset I am about losing it.
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Sadly, I have to agree with this assessment. I do think there is a lack of discipline in the locker room. Some of it I Place in coaches, but I also place some responsibility on veterans (including Ben) for not providing leadership.

Remember last year when AB did his FB live crap, and everyone defended him because “he’s AB?” That **** is like cancer in a locker room. It spreads. He was doing that WITH younger guys.

Then this year we hear about Martavis bitching about playing time (and his teammates), AB kicking Gatorade containers, Harrison sleeping in meetings, Bell airing his grievances in the media, Mitchell talking trash before the playoff game, stupid taunting penalties and excessive attention placed on showboating., it’s all a sign of a lack of discipline.

In the past, this is where people like Bettis or Hines would have stepped in and redirected. I’m not sure there is anyone doing that in this locker room. Hell, Ben’s to busy throwing his coaches under the Bus in the media and causing his own drama.

I am not sure Tomlin is the disciplinarian that I thought he was. He allows this culture to continue. As to the comment about playing NE, I have no problem with it, but I think he and his veteran needs to have better control of that locker room.

I’m not sure there is a mature/stable voice there. Who knows, maybe that could be DeCastro, if he would just speak up to his teammates, and not to the media.

There is a reason we have developed a reputation for drama.


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SteelDan said:
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A team with a leader and without focus, thank you Tomlin.
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Maybe DDC should've told somebody to stfu before the game...not after.
 
mdk2 said:
Honestly, Tomlin needs to start being a coach and not a friend. Tell these players to keep their damn mouth's shut and not worry if they like you or not.
Players do not love Bellichick(ask Tom Brady) but they respect the hell out of him and know he's going to put them in the best place to win the game which is what matters.
This is a game of winning not being a loving family at all times.
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I've never been on the "Fire Tomlin" bandwagon because that will never ever happen in Pittsburgh and I think he is a fairly decent coach, but I am starting to think there is something to this. I think the divas are being permitted to have free reign over the team. I think they need a big time wake up call but it may be too late to wrangle the control back from them. That does need to change because it's holding the team back.
 
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mightyguru said:
Maybe DDC should've told somebody to stfu before the game...not after.
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Assuming he didn't tell anyone to stfu, he should at least taken some preventative measures, such as bogarting Le'Veon's mobile devices & home computer and placing some kind of tracking device on Mike Mitchell's mouth.
 
Not the first Steeler fed up with the undisciplined scene over there. Troy had had it by the time he left.
 
Tomlin wants to live vicariously through the players. Just be one of the guys. This crap of looking ahead was apparent after yesterday’s debacle. A good coach never, ever alludes his team to look ahead but that’s hard to do when the coach does the same.


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