Man, we just weren't successful enough today, man
, to sustain any type of ball control or,
or produce enough points, um, to be functional
today, and that's just the reality of it.
Do the solutions to turn this thing around exist in
your building? Certainly we can see the confidence that
they do. Keep watching. Something that's not being
done right from a coaching aspect or preparation aspect that's
kind of framing you guys in the wrong way.
I know what you're trying to ask, and I'm
not going to go down that road at all.
Um, I believe in the coaching staff, I
believe in Mike Tomlin, that's why I came here
, and players need to take accountability, myself included
, and I will, and I will continue to
. I got to play better. Not the uncapping
of the water bottle. While he thinks of a
way to answer that question, there is nothing more
intimidating and condescending somehow simultaneously that Aaron Rodgers handling it
that way. Willie, you mentioned something during the
highlight which I feel like we have to tap into
, which is, well, someone has to have
heart. What do you make of the Steelers losing
3 of their last 4? If you were to
tell me Buffalo had to go into Pittsburgh without their
two starting tackles and keep Josh Allen upright, I
said no chance in hell. Josh Allen never hit
the turf yesterday. That's, that's what's shocking.
And what's also shocking is you watch his defense put
up a good fight for a good portion of the
first half and the second half lay down. We
talk about. About heart and pride in Pittsburgh.
It's not just something we say or you do,
it's something you walk with as a mantra. You
saw guys time after time make business decisions instead of
football decisions, and that's what's heartbreaking about when you
turn on the tape for the Pittsburgh Steelers. This
is a, this is a brand, this is
an outfit, this is an organization that talks like
an elite football team. And in this season they've
been mediocre and they started week one against the Jets
where they barely escaped out of that building and they
got the W and then you go right here,
this play right here exemplifies it right here. Instead
of going for the tackle, we went for,
uh, the punch out. Can't happen. This
is Josh Allen coming downhill. You gotta make a
football tackle. That's called a football decision. And
you have guys making arm tackles. You got Jalen
Ramsey fighting on one toe to try to keep Josh
Allen out of the end zone, and he gets
mowed over. This is a defense that's get paid
a lot of money to be elite, and they
haven't been thus far. This Bills team had 16
rushing first downs. And they ran for 249 yards
in Pittsburgh. You're looking at Aaron Rodgers, can't
take snaps on the center because he has a cast
on his hands, so that strengths the playbook,
and they're anemic with the receiving and they're tight ends
. They can't do anything. Him and this offense
seem like they've been out of sync for the last
couple of weeks. And so when you put it
all together, to be quite frank with you,
I don't know who the Pittsburgh Steelers are. I
don't know what they do well and what they can't
. Can't do well. What I do see is
a team that's simply trying to thrive, excuse me
, trying to thrive, but they're simply surviving.
And so it's frustrating as a former Steeler, a
guy who has a Super Bowl with a great organization
, had a lot of pride and, and,
and a lot of passion, and I love that
organization like a family. But this last couple of
weeks has been hard to watch because I know for
a fact Mike Tomlin is not coaching that, and
I know that's not what we represent, and you
saw time after time guys on that. The lay
down and that's not to steal away. But Willie
, you talked about the Steelers and you don't know
what they're good at and what they're not good at
. The thing about the Buffalo Bills is we know
what they're really good at, but we also know
what they're not good at, and I think Joe
Brady and that offense understood that what we do really
good is run this football, and that's exactly what
they did. What I really, really liked is
you see these type of plays right here where you
see James Cook bounce it to the outside. When
you, when you run the football, you can't
block everybody. But the Buffalo Bills made a business
decision. They said if I'm gonna have anybody try
to tackle my running backs, it's gonna be these
corners. It's gonna be the DBs. We're gonna
block everybody up front. We're gonna block the entire
D line, the linebackers, and we're gonna force
these DBs to make plays on our running backs every
single, almost all, all night long, and
we're gonna, we're gonna bet that these guys can
, can, can get the job done. James
Cook had 144 yards rushing. Ray Davis came and
had 9. for 62 yards, he basically averaged
7 yards a carry. That's Joe Brady saying,
hey, listen, we don't know what's going on
with our passing game yet. We don't have a
real, uh, uh, Josh Allen doesn't have
a favorite target, but he doesn't have a favorite
player that he likes to give the ball to,
and it's, it's his running backs, and they've
been carrying this team for the entire season, and
they, and they definitely came out last night,
uh, over there at away game with the Steelers
and provided, uh, some spark for them as
well, KB. Yeah, there's some, there's
some angry fan bases right now out there. You
just take a quick account like you have the Chiefs
at 500, but they just count their trophies and
they have so much success. You have the Eagles
who are really upset right now after what happened,
but they've had a lot of success too. I
think the most upset fan base right now in the
NFL is the Steelers, and you know why I
know this? Not only Willie, and you understand
, not only were they booing, a lot of
teams boo. They started playing Renegade last night at
the stadium, their song by Sticks, and they
booed Renegade. They started, Oh mama, they
didn't wanna hear that. Don't play that nonsense when
we can't do it. Stop playing it. I
, I'm seeing many people online who cover the Steelers
for a living and who say, I have never
heard Renegade, the song. The guys from Sticks
, whoever's still around, fell off their chairs getting
booed. And I found myself in this game just
, just watching Rodgers and my God, they put
him on camera a lot and I watched him on
the, he's got a damn cast, he's about
to turn 42, his nose is maybe broken,
it's bleeding, he looks miserable, the beard has
never looked grayer. He's taking hits from meatheads like
Bosa like this, and I, I've seen some
suggestion online about, you know what dude, you
got apparently a. Big old house in Malibu.
You got a big old mountain of cash at home
. You're gonna go in the Hall of Fame five
years after you retire. Like, what are you
doing here? And to that I say, I
think Rodgers lives for this. Uh, I'm,
I'm gonna flip on that completely. He knew what
it was gonna, what time it was. He
, he's played in a million cold weather games where
he gets his ass kicked and the team maybe is
not playing that way. He's booed in Green Bay
before. That's true. And I'm also going to
flip it right now. On Monday morning right now
after one of the worst, most listless Steelers losses
you'll see in this generation, I think they're going
to win next week at Baltimore. I do,
because this is how the Steelers work. I love
it, Kyle. This is how Mike Tomlin works
. You get to 6 and 6, all is
lost. It's post-apocalyptic. Everything's dead. Fire this
person, cut this person, and like that they
find a way. Way to win and the gravity
kicks in. This is right where the Mike Tomlin
Steelers live when it seems like all hope is lost
. Oh, what do you know, they win
2 out of their next 3 and things are going
, I think that they're going to win at Baltimore
next week because I've seen this before. Maybe not
this dismal. Rodgers will play. The defensive line
out of nowhere is going to be all over Lamar
. This is how it works. When all hope
is lost. Guess what happens next. Good thing
. I think they'll win at Baltimore next week.
I don't apologize for it. I back Kyle's message
because this is a rivalry game. You're talking about
both teams right now who are, are, are
living in murky water, and so one of them
has to come out of it. And you talk
about both quarterbacks are banged up and they're really trying
to figure out how they can carry this team,
but it's one thing I, one thing I do
know. Mike Tomlin will find a way. He
, he always has and he always will, and
I know a lot of people are saying, hey
, he was booed. They wanna fire him.
Mike Tomlin, this is a time when Mike Tomlin
goes into his bag and he gets crafty. So
I believe Kyle. I support Kyle's message, and
I'm not just saying it because I'm a former Steeler
, because I'm a believer. Something has to change
. When you start booing this man, he says
, OK, I got something for you, and
I wanna see Mike Tomlin deliver. I know there's
a lot of guys in that locker room that will
deliver. It's just a matter of getting it,
getting it done and putting it on tape. Tomlin's
gonna say something. Watch in his next press conference
. He's gonna have some quote. We're gonna be
like. We need zippers, not buttons. The
zippers work together and the zippers have teeth. We
are not a team of buttons. We are a
team of zippers, and they'll come out and be
like, All right, it works sense, and
then they'll play like zippers the next week. It'll
happen. Watch. Fingerless gloves, no bits.