It certainly seemed as though, to a man, the Pittsburgh Steelers truly expected that Le’Veon Bell would show up on Wednesday and be a fully committed part of the team’s 2018 Super Bowl run. He appears to have other plans, and while a number of hindsight fans have claimed that they knew all along this would play out in this way, it’s probably worth keeping in mind that his teammates know Bell far better.
And Mike Tomlin, the Steelers’ head coach, knows his players extremely well. So it was telling when he told reporters yesterday, when asked, that he is “surprised very little by what they do or say”.