After dropping to a pair of two-win groups in 4 days, Pittsburgh Steelers security Minkah Fitzpatrick known as out his teammates on Thursday night time for having the incorrect mindset going into video games.
After dropping 24-10 to the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, a number of Steelers gamers — together with operating again Jaylen Warren and large receiver Diontae Johnson — talked about how they took the Cardinals evenly. These are regarding feedback coming from NFL gamers, however they’d an opportunity to redeem themselves on Thursday night time in opposition to the then 2-10 New England Patriots.
The Steelers went out and repeated all the similar errors in a 21-18 loss to place an enormous dent into their playoff hopes.
That set Fitzpatrick off after the sport.
In an interview with ESPN’s Brooke Pryor, Fitzpatrick known as out his teammates for not eager to do the laborious work and “toil” for the fruit.
“As a way to see the fruit, you’ve gotta toil for it. I feel too many individuals don’t wish to toil for it. They simply wish to stroll out right here and suppose that they’re going to make performs and suppose that they’re going to carry out at a excessive degree. I feel we have to have extra individuals who wish to work for it, not anticipate it to be handed to them. That is the NFL. Nothing’s handed to you. You bought to earn all the things. I feel that dudes simply suppose that as a result of they’re sporting the black and gold, that they’re going to win video games, and I feel we have to verify that mentality and make folks notice that they acquired to earn that mentality, they usually acquired to earn each single blade of grass, each single splash play and each single rep that they get on the market. They acquired to earn it.”