Best of The Fan: Steelers without DK hope to wrap up division without playing a game

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What opportunities arise from DK Metcalf's suspension?

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one man's misfortune is another man's opportunity a guy like roman wilson for example who has been working extremely hard and growing throughout the course of this thing but had his role reduced in recent weeks man i'm excited what this opportunity might mean for him to display growth in the midst of the time where he hadn't been participating to show his professionalism and his readiness and how he's been sharpening his sword for battle in the ranks uh while he hadn't been playing for example and so I just think that's always the lens in which I see it, whether it's discipline in nature or injury related. You can waste a lot of time pining for those that you don't have. As a leader, I think it's my job to work and prepare those that I do have and position them to live out their dreams and be positive contributors to a winning effort.

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All right, classic Mike Tomlin trying to find the positives in this DK Metcalf suspension as far as it goes and pertains to how it affects the team on the field. And this is now a new opportunity for Roman Wilson, says Tomlin, to get back out there. And he has taken his benching in a positive manner, it sounds like. and Mike's trying to gas him up with the likelihood that DK Metcalf is going to miss time with this suspension. The appeal has happened, is my understanding, and now we're just waiting on a ruling from the NFL. But to be very clear, Goodell hands out the suspension, and likely either he or one of his people hears the appeal. One of his minions, yes. So basically, it's you get a two-game suspension.

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All right, I've had time to think about it. Maybe I'll make it one game. The scuttlebutt from... people around the Steelers here at four o'clock the day after the suspension came down is that it is going to get reduced. That's the, that's the sentiment right now. And I don't think they feel like it'll get reduced down to nothing, but I think they're, I don't even want to say hope. I think their expectation is that it goes from two to one. And Starkey brought this up, and I don't know if he found this on his own or if one of his birdies brought it to his attention, but I've heard it's absolutely part of their defense, which is this incident that happened in Philadelphia in 2023 where Where, similar situation, a fan was making... In this case, the allegation was the fan wasn't saying anything racially inappropriate or anything like that, but was making threats to players.

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Bills players. It was an Eagles-Bills game in Philly, and Eagles fans were doing what they want to do. They were acting like jerks. This one in particular was really crossing the line. Okay. And during the game, it got so bad... That Shaq Lawson at the time. Decided to go over and take matters into his own hands. And there's video of it. I posted it to my Twitter. Of him shoving a fan. I had forgotten about this. Joe brought it up on the show today at 10.

What is Mike Tomlin's approach to player discipline?

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And. The Steelers knew about it. That this had happened. There was no. Discipline from the NFL at all. No suspension, no fine. The Bills find him, which is interesting. Team fines are tough because, I don't know, I think it's a little bit trickier, more complicated with the CBA. I would think that the team says, no, no, we'll handle it here. We'll take it out of the league's hands and we'll do it. wasn't suspended, wasn't sat down, just had some money taken out of his pocket for it. Now, it was credible, though, that Eagles fans were making threats. Like, there was proof that they were doing it, right? Or no? So there was not proof. It's just the Bills players are saying they were making threats. Yes. And same thing where if you watch the video, it looks like the fan went to the game with the explicit intent to goad players and rattle them and get under their skin.

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And it worked. And he got excited about it. He got a rise out of it. He was the instigator and was proud of himself for having players come over to him and actually confront him. It's an achievement to him. Yep. Which is very similar to what went on with this guy in Detroit.