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stillers4me
09-09-2012, 08:31 AM
Fridays are the loosest days in the Steelers’ locker room. Heavy duty game prep is finished. Minds are at ease.
Coach Mike Tomlin sometimes circles the room after practice, delivering good-natured digs along his route. Players razz each other to no end.

This past Friday, defensive end Ziggy Hood and linebacker LaMarr Woodley — who comprise the left edge of the Steelers’ defense — started slinging verbal darts.

As Hood spoke to a reporter about the man he replaced — retired defensive end Aaron Smith — Woodley piped up.
“You’re talking about Aaron Smith?” Woodley said. “You don’t even belong in the same sentence as Aaron Smith.”

“Shut up,” Hood shot back, before turning to the reporter and saying, “I don’t even like LaMarr Woodley. Anybody who names their kid LaMarr …”


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