Who is our Steve Smith?

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Cam Newton was sitting dejected on the sideline when receiver Steve Smith came over and positively earholed the second-year star.

I'll take it. Now that Hines Ward is gone, who is that leader on the Steelers?

 

kiesel?

 

ryan clark.

 

ryan clark for sure... and it looks like casey was sure telling wallace something .. but clark is the voice of the steelers for sure

HINES

 

It needs to be Ben. It's Ben's team now. After Bettis retired, it was Hines's team. Now that Hines is gone, that role belongs to Ben.

 

I think its good old charlie. Seems anytime somebody has a bad play you see charlie go to them

 

Ryan Clark is the Steeler mouthpiece, he never shuts up.

 

I think Ben is the leader on Offense. He might not be a rah rah guy all the time, but I give him credit not once in his 8 years here has he ever blamed anybody. Even when the line was horrible he always has their backs.

 

I have no problem with what Steve Smith did, but I'd like to think that our players sort this kind of stuff out behind closed doors rather than in a sideline exhibition. There was a story a while back about how Porter had laid into Ben during a team meeting, but it only really came out a few years later, which is how it should be. imo.

 

Joey Porter is our Steve Smith...oh...wait....uhhhh.....

 

Porter probably was.

Now I expect it will be other players, but what I'm saying is historically we don't tend to see things like that happen, because they get it sorted in the team meetings. Joe Greene telling te team to get behind Bradshaw back in the early 70s would be another example.

 

I agree. I was just injecting a little sarcasm. We were talking the other day in a different thread about how we need a guy like Ray Lewis to get up in people's faces and tell them when they suck. I don't think right now we have that. I saw something with Joe Greene once where he said that during a game a literally grabbed the ball from the line of scrimmage and held it up and told the team how much they suck for not being able to take it away or something. We don't have THAT guy for SURE! I wish we did though.

 

I was looking specifically at how he positively got at him. I really don't think getting in people's faces when they suck is as effective as it may have been 30 years ago. We see all the time how a disciplinarian as a coach isn't as effective. People don't respond to being yelled at anymore. Maybe its a cultural thing with the generation of today's players. There is a difference between saying "get up and take mental reps" to become a leader versus "you're stinking up the joint, get your head in the game, yada yada yada".

 

It's funny that you say he "positively" done it. I think you must have read a different article about it than me. I read about it on NFL.COM which said Smith "blasted" him or something. They totally made it out like it was a real fight situation or something. I think one of us must be the victim of journalistic drama. Did you read it from a guy that said he was doing it in a nice kind of way? From what I made of the article I thought the nfl.com blew it out of proportion so I would really say you probably got a more accurate depiction. But when you used the word "positively" I thought you were saying that he "DEFINITELY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY" called him out. I didn't get that you meant he "constructively" did it. Sorry about that.

 

really? i remember reading about how the giants hated their head coach coughlin when he first arrived and how hard he was on players and how hard he made them work in practice and screamed at them. they have also won a couple of SB titles with him and are pretty fine with his way now. there are times for it and there are times to take another approch. if they can't take it those guys might be in the wrong profession. they all have probaly been yelled at most of their football lives by coaches. heck i had one in HS that made us go out in full pads run the stadium stairs, run the hill, run 40's like crazy, hit the sled for the legnth of the practice field twice and then practice. heck we had won by 30. we loved him. of course that was a long time ago.

 

I thought of Coughlin as well when I read the part about disciplinarian coaches. If I had to pick someone on our team that's gonna be more likely to get in someones face I'm gonna maybe think outside the box a little and say Todd Haley. He did it in AZ right? He DEFINITELY did it in KC. So wouldn't it stand to reason to say that he will probably do it here? Ben even said in an article I read somewhere that he completely expects for it to happen. I would maybe think that Mike McCarthy might be somewhat of a discipline guy as well. I don't know that I just wouldn't be surprised if he let somebody have it. But just to be clear are we talking about publicly or privately? Because I bet a LOT of coaches are pretty rough privately.