Steelers' Former Safety Ryan Clark Reveals Why Pittsburgh Is Having Concerning Locker Room Issues

[SteelerNation.com News]

The Pittsburgh Steelers are on a three-game losing streak, which has brought out frustrations in not just the fans, but the players too. Tempers have flared and fingers are seeming to be pointed, even if the players aren't directly calling anyone out in particular. It seems that most, if not all, of the finger pointing is coming from the defense, who has struggled immensely over the last month. Many of Pittsburgh's star play-makers on defense have been visibly frustrated since their Christmas Day loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, a loss which dropped the Steelers to second place in the AFC North.

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[Fiji Mariner]

So a guy that was brought in from Washington and that is not in the locker room speaks to what it means to be drafted by the Steelers/being homegrown and the current issues of a locker room he ain’t in.

**** is laughable

Ryan was a great player but frequently bores me
To death with his takes

 

[stillwright]

So a guy that was brought in from Washington and that is not in the locker room speaks to what it means to be drafted by the Steelers/being homegrown and the current issues of a locker room he ain’t in.

**** is laughable

Ryan was a great player but frequently bores me
To death with his takes

Just where our team culture is now. Years ago as Clark pointed out....they would lock the door and the lockerroom leaders would work out the issues in house. Some here bashed me when I stated Heyward has never been one of those leaders. He just isn't. In fact I don't know if we have one player that is. The one player who attempted to lead was shut done asap by Tomlin.

 

[Badcat]

Ryan Clark, a bygone era. **** is different now.

 

[xjx]

Talk is cheap. Actions speak louder than words. Tomlins team is on a 3 game losing streak. Shut up and play ball.

 

[Fiji Mariner]

Just where our team culture is now. Years ago as Clark pointed out....they would lock the door and the lockerroom leaders would work out the issues in house. Some here bashed me when I stated Heyward has never been one of those leaders. He just isn't. In fact I don't know if we have one player that is. The one player who attempted to lead was shut done asap by Tomlin.

Man I miss Hines for what he brought

Also miss a guy like James-sure Watt is awesome, but dudes ain’t afraid of TJ…you’d better fear acting like a clown around James.

We miss those guys that brought the toughness and the fear to the sidelines

A lot of it is just the changing of times tho imo

Today’s athletes are just different
It’s all about a brand these days- and toughness and fear aren’t the current fashion of the brand

 

[Lloyd]

So a guy that was brought in from Washington and that is not in the locker room speaks to what it means to be drafted by the Steelers/being homegrown and the current issues of a locker room he ain’t in.

**** is laughable

Ryan was a great player but frequently bores me
To death with his takes

He has grown to favor his own voice on many issues. I don't know, he's a member of the media, what's he supposed to do?

 

[Lloyd]

Man I miss Hines for what he brought

Also miss a guy like James-sure Watt is awesome, but dudes ain’t afraid of TJ…you’d better fear acting like a clown around James.

We miss those guys that brought the toughness and the fear to the sidelines

A lot of it is just the changing of times tho imo

Today’s athletes are just different
It’s all about a brand these days- and toughness and fear aren’t the current fashion of the brand

Harrison was just a bad @$$, no two ways about it. He lived and breathed bad @$$nes to his very soul. When his hit you, you went down, hard. NO ONE was ever the bad @$$ that Harrison was, ever.

 

[Gildong Sack]

So a guy that was brought in from Washington and that is not in the locker room speaks to what it means to be drafted by the Steelers/being homegrown and the current issues of a locker room he ain’t in.

**** is laughable

Ryan was a great player but frequently bores me
To death with his takes

I watched that show and his take. Anything to avoid blaming Tomlin. At the end of his harangue he realized how ridiculous his take was and said something like "sure coach Tomlin is partly to blame." Beat it Ryan, we get enough "Dear Leader is infallible" from the regular sports media that didn't play for him.

 

[ExUSAF]

"There aren't a lot of these homegrown and home-raised Steelers that were drafted here, that understand the culture...". Whatever you think of Ryan Clark, this is the real problem - the culture of this team is that a non-losing season is good enough. That is the only culture to understand since there are no players left that have known any other culture.

 

[Lloyd]

"There aren't a lot of these homegrown and home-raised Steelers that were drafted here, that understand the culture...". Whatever you think of Ryan Clark, this is the real problem - the culture of this team is that a non-losing season is good enough. That is the only culture to understand since there are no players left that have known any other culture.

I don't know how we got here: where a non-losing team is good enough. Lloyd, Woodson and co. sure didn't possess that soft attitude, must be the coach.

 

[warriors42]

"There aren't a lot of these homegrown and home-raised Steelers that were drafted here, that understand the culture...". Whatever you think of Ryan Clark, this is the real problem - the culture of this team is that a non-losing season is good enough. That is the only culture to understand since there are no players left that have known any other culture.

^^^^THIS^^^^.. This is exactly why losers stay losers, there is nobody on the team that understands winning and that includes coaching. I grew up in MI so Detroit has always been my second favorite team, over the years they had plenty of good players, they just didn't know how to win until Dan Campbell got there.

This is why Detroit is fun to watch, it's like the birth of a new team. Campbell's attitude is we might lose but we're gonna do it on our terms not anyone else's. his player have bought into it. I personally think that if they had all their defensive starters back they would be unbeatable. My wet dream is us against the Lions in the SB but I realized it would turn into a wet nightmare because Dan Campbell is a thousand times a better coach than MT.

 

[SteelerFan448]

"There aren't a lot of these homegrown and home-raised Steelers that were drafted here, that understand the culture...". Whatever you think of Ryan Clark, this is the real problem - the culture of this team is that a non-losing season is good enough. That is the only culture to understand since there are no players left that have known any other culture.

A combination of bad draft picks not worth re-signing and letting the good draft picks they should've kept walk. They kept the small handful of elite talent, but let the middle go.

 

[steelhurt]

I like what they’ve done in Detroit, and those fans totally deserve a winner. I like Dan Campbell and both coordinators who I think will be HCs soon.
Dan Campbell had a vision on what he wanted to build and with what players to accomplish that vision.
What we have here is a hodgepodge of nothingness with drafting players without any clear picture or vision of what we are trying to accomplish.
The Eagles are the other team that had a plan of what they wanted be. They have a very good OL and the Eagles went out and got Sequan Barkley to run behind it.
What did Tomlin do? He drafts a RB in 2021 Najee Harris and sticks him behind a crappy OL when he should have built the OL first. But oh, he had Kendrick Green as Ben’s center the last year of Ben’s career.

 

[DebraBarnes]

You are right. They deserved it.