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Harbaugh Wonders If Tomlin Received Credit For Tackle

Aug 16, 2014 3:57 AM

Mike Tomlin interfered with James Jones during a 73-yard return in the Baltimore Ravens' win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday.

"Did they credit him with the tackle on that?" asked John Harbaugh. "Hey, that stuff happens. It happens. I really don't have anything to say about it other than, stuff like that happens."

"I eased up," Jones told "NFL AM" on Friday. "At the time when I was looking at him, I was like, 'I ain't going to run through him.' Everybody was like, 'You should've ran over him,' and I'm like, 'Man, good God, I'm not that type of person.'"

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Steelers Won't Consider Trading Roethlisberger Without Replacement

Aug 12, 2014 5:20 AM

The Pittsburgh Steelers will not consider trading Ben Roethlisberger this offseason "unless (they) find a replacement," according to Ian Rapoport.

There have been multiple reports suggesting that Roethlisberger and the Steelers have a disconnect moving forward.

Roethlisberger has been adamant in his public remarks about wanting to remain with the Steelers in the long-term.

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Steelers Finding Success Salvaging Mike Adams At TE

Jul 10, 2014 5:31 PM

The Pittsburgh Steelers are 2-2 since moving Mike Adams from left tackle to tight end.

Adams gave up three sacks to Jared Allen in Week 4 and replaced him with Kelvin Beachum.

The Steelers are using Adams as a blocking tight end to help in the run game.

Even though Adams has been an eligible receiver, Ben Roethlisberger has yet to target him.

"He's doing a really nice job with what we're asking him to do as a tight end," Mike Tomlin said this week. "... I don't want to equate that to tackle play. Obviously, it's a different set of issues."

Adams was a second round pick in 2012.

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Roethlisberger Reiterates Wish To Stay With Steelers

Oct 15, 2014 11:42 PM

Ben Roethlisberger again confirmed his desire to stay with the Pittsburgh Steelers while questions were raised about how much work he puts into preparing for games away from team headquarters.

"First off, how does anybody know what I'm doing at home when I'm watching film or I'm looking through my playbook?" Roethlisberger said on WDVE-FM. "Unless someone's got cameras set up in my house and they're spying on me, but then they'd see the truth that I am doing that stuff.

"It's so ridiculous. I get fired up because I don't like when people make up stuff about you, especially when you're so passionate about your team and your family and where I want to be."

A report from the NFL Network indicated that the Steelers are frustrated with Roethlisberger's unwillingness to change his style of play. 

The report also said that Roethlisberger may ask the team to explore trading him.

"I want to stay. My family wants to stay. I want to finish my career here, I've always said that," Roethlisberger said. "I hope that's very clear to everybody. When someone is a source and they're unnamed, they have an agenda and that agenda is not winning football games and not helping this team. And whoever the agenda is coming from, they're not helping us. They're hurting us.

"There's no way it's coming from in the building because if it is, they would come talk to me. I think my resume speaks for itself on what I've done in the past -- winning championships and football games."

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Roethlisberger Angrily Refutes Report Of Wanting Trade

Jun 19, 2014 7:40 AM

Ben Roethlisberger responded with an angry rebuttal to a report that questioned his future with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

"It's ridiculous," Roethlisberger said after Sunday's win. "This is where I've always wanted to be. I don't want to play for anyone else.

"I'm a Pittsburgher -- this is home. I'm proud to raise my kids here. I don't want to play for anyone else."

NFL.com reported that Roethlisberger is disenchanted with the direction of the Steelers and plans to ask the team to explore trading him as they did this past offseason.

Ryan Tollner, Roethlisberger's agent, also refuted the report shortly after it surfaced in a series of tweets.

"This is completely wrong and inaccurate," Tollner said. "Ben has always said he wants to play his entire career for the Steelers, and his roots are set firmly in Pittsburgh. He has a lot left in the tank and is 100 percent committed to winning more championships with the Steelers."

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Steelers' Defense Not Blaming LeBeau For Struggles

Oct 15, 2014 11:53 PM

The Pittsburgh Steelers' defense allowed the New England Patriots to score 55 points and Dick LeBeau has been the target of criticism.

"Somebody has to take the blame," linebacker LaMarr Woodley said, via the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "That's just the way it is when you're having a bad season. Last season, I was the one to take the blame. It comes with the territory. Now people want to blame the defensive coordinator."

"There's nothing anyone can say outside our group about coach LeBeau that bothers us," said Ryan Clark. "We know what kind of man he is. We know what kind of work he puts into us, not just as football players but as men. We don't have to defend him. His resume speaks for itself."

LeBeau was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010 and is now 76. LeBeau has taken Pittsburgh's struggles this season on defense "very hard," according to Troy Polamalu. The issue very could be how the defensive unit has aged and not LeBeau's schemes.

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