It’s very rare that Mike Tomlin speaks extra. He was only supposed to speak twice this week but stepped up to address this issue. This is a team that now talks more when they lose than when they win. When you lose, you should keep your mouth shut and get to work,” Clark said. “There is no excuse for lack of effort; there’s no reason for not putting your all into the game,” he said.
Clark also brought up the locker room issues the Steelers have had over the past few years, particularly regarding wide receivers. In doing so, he seemingly blames a chronic lack of cohesion and accountability in the Steelers’ wide receiver room for their recent struggles, pointing to a “cancer” within the group that needs immediate remedy.
“The other piece of it for me is the state of the room, the wide receiver room. From Antonio Brown to JuJu to Chase Claypool to Diontae and now to George Pickens, there’s been a cancer in that room. I don’t know how it started. I don’t know if it’s Coach Tomlin’s ability or willingness to let you be authentically you, but something needs to change. What’s happened generation to generation, era to era, year to year in that room has been unacceptable,” Clark concluded.
