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stillers4me
10-14-2013, 09:15 AM
Oh, to have been a bug-equipped fly on the wall at the Steelers (http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/)' South Side headquarters the past few days. To have heard Mike Tomlin peeling the paint off the place.

To have heard the paid athletes lamenting the loss of pingpong privileges and whatever other frivolity might have stolen so much as a second from focusing on 0-4.

Then again, maybe we did hear it all.

Or at least its echo.

Because those same Steelers, the ones who finally competed anywhere close to their commensurate talent in checking down the Jets, 19-6, on Sunday at MetLife Stadium … those Steelers very clearly benefited from the coach's very big boot administered all through the bye week.

Which says a lot, both good and bad. The good was obvious. And I do mean obvious.

“Obviously,” Tomlin opened his postgame news conference, “that's a significant win for us.”

“It's good to get a win,” Ben Roethlisberger opened his news conference, “obviously.”

Obviously, then, the bad was just as glaringly obvious: This team was underachieving..........




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