The Pittsburgh Steelers won their preseason finale this year, but it wasn’t a great day from them overall. Against the Carolina Panthers, they played sloppy football. That includes being called for 13 penalties. They played some of their starters, too, and those players were part of the problem. While it was only the preseason, Ben Roethlisberger still isn’t happy seeing that from the Steelers.
“You can’t take it lightly because what it does is it bleeds into the regular season,” Roethlisberger said Tuesday on his Footbahlin’ podcast. “I’m not trying to say anything about Coach [Tomlin] and him being okay with stuff, but sometimes there needs to be accountability… You can’t be okay with some of the dumb penalties.