Tired of the drama

One of the thing I look forward to is a quiet off season, with some scholarly debate about draft picks. This year, it is Ben's veiled retirement comments, Brown's inability to stay off Facebook, speculation about Bryant returning clean, Bell's being hurt, and who knew about it. Looks like this off-season is going to more exciting than I hoped.

 

Just how far has the Steelers ORG fallen? I think Dan/Art Rooney needs to address the whole organization going forward. Lets tighten this ship,from grooming on down lets look at at
the whole picture.

 

It depends where you think they've fallen from. In an era of social media and 24 hour coverage of the NFL, there will be 'stories' all off season that you simply never heard in past times.

It's not like there haven't been contract disputes, retirement decisions and questionable off-field activities before.

I sympathise with the OP but all we've had so far is the usual fallout at the end of a season. Journalists will soon find some other "controversies" to focus on.

 

I think its more a society issue. A lot harder to find character individuals than in past generations. The front office is likely trying but more likely to swing and miss in today's times

 

What AB does is stupid, immature and annoying, but it's not malicious. He's not doing drugs, he's not beating women, he's not getting hand cuffed outside a strip club at 3am. It's irritating, but that's about all.

ABs stupid behavior is hardly a measure of 'how far the Stiller Organization has fallen'. If he has big game vs NE, nobody says boo about the Facebook video.

Lev Bell has two violations of the NFL drug policy, JPeezy a 40-yr old man get taken hauled off after a bar scuffle, yet AB draws the outrage. Go figure.

 

how do you police it? can each franchise set rules different from the league? for instance if they said, no more social media for any player. can they do that? if so then I am for it. I have a cousin who works at a law firm in Atlanta. they are not allowed to have social media accounts of any kind. they sign a contract and I believe he said a violation means termination.

I am sure the rooneys do not want to take this stance. I mean its not the kind of people they are. I think that they operate the old way. you show us respect and we will you. the problem is that doesn't work today. I am starting to sound like my father but this generation feels entitled. they want respect without earning it or returning it.

 

For me personally, I have a hard time with the suspensions for drugs. The marijuana debate is a whole other issue. The fact that they decided not to follow the rules and get suspended just makes them unlikable to me.

I want to like some of our players the same way I liked the Bus our Hines Ward, but so far I just can't.

 

I completely understand this sentiment!

And let me throw one other "food for thought" item out there. Has LeGarette Blount had any drug/discipline issues under Belichick in NE? I think the players on the Steelers like Tomlin, but I don't think the players have the kind of respect for Tomlin that players need to have. There needs to be a certain dynamic in an organization in which the player has a certain level of respectful reverence for the coach. My honest assertion is that we don't have that on our team.

My ultimate coach is Chuck Noll and you can be sure that he was highly respected and maybe even feared just a little bit, which isn't a bad thing. He had that aura about him. No social media back then but I guarantee when he spoke in the locker room the players listened to what he had to say. He wasn't just white noise like Tomlin appeared to be with several of the players.

 

They like him, I don't believe they have a reverent respect for him. He's their buddy.

 

They respect him in a "buddy" sort of way.

 

Read what Labriola says on this. Given he's around the team facilities most of the time, he has a good insight - and has debunked the whole "friend not coach" several times.

 

All teams deal with drama to some extent. The Steelers are a marquee franchise and an article is guaranteed a lot of clicks. Our distraction stuff will always be front page.

 

Sounds like a winner, I still feel there needs to be more discipline involved thru out the organization in all different facets.
I hope Art and Dan will look into this this off season. We need to tighten the ship.

 

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