Steelers four down Rundown

The Pittsburgh Steelers have finally reported and started training camp at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

With all the craziness of arrivals and other stories that happen, you could have missed a story or two in the frenzy. Let’s take a look at the Steelers four down rundown for the first day of training camp.

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First Down: Ben Roethlisberger said Martavis Bryant lied

There’s a special bond of a quarterback and his receivers. This bond includes honesty and trust. Just by watching a quarter of a game and you will see that Roethlisberger has great relationships with his receivers.

Bryant is suspended for the entire year due to missed drug tests. Bryant’s suspension is one thing, but he may have eroded some of that trust that Roethlisberger has by lying to him.

“We talked a lot, every day during his suspension we talked,” Roethlisberger explained to the Post-Gazette. “And then when [the second suspension] happened we talked, as soon as the news broke I kind of asked him what happened. He said some things that were just kind of disappointing.

“I just think the approach, the denial of everything. Looking me in my eye and denying everything, it’s tough. It disappoints you as a man and a guy who cared so much about him. I obviously care a lot about him as a person and a football player.”

Roethlisberger put it best. I think a lot of fans and members of the organization feel upset by the actions of Bryant and don’t really have an answer on if he’ll be back with the team when the suspension is over.

I think that how things have been going lately with Steelers players and drug tests, I would bet that Bryant will be out of Pittsburgh. He’ll need a fresh start. Once that trust of the quarterback it’s too hard to build it back.

Second Down: Bengals Continue to Reject Reality

Alright, this one is more Bengals related, but it makes me laugh. It’s been over six months since the Bengals and Steelers played in the Wild Card game and Adam Jones just can’t get over it.

“We kicked they ass the whole game; that’s all I can say,” Jones said Thursday, via ESPN.com. “And it hurt me to my heart that we let it go like that.

Well, as much ass-kicking one team can do it doesn’t matter if in the last seconds of the game you lose your cool and let the other team win. The Steelers manhandled the Broncos for most of the game in the Divisional Round and they still lost. It happens – all the time.

Jones also said that he wanted to get out of the first round and I don’t see that happening any time soon.

Third Down: Antonio Brown shows up in style

Brown has been making coming to training camp a spectacle. Despite Brown stating that he is underpaid as one of the best in the game (he’s right), he rolled up in a custom $300,000 Rolls Royce Wraith.

Brown’s Rolls Royce comes with a custom Steelers-themed paint job that is pretty awesome. I like to think that it has the universe on the car because Brown is the best-damned player in the universe.

Fourth Down: Steelers Could be Fined

With all the hubbub about Le’Veon Bell and Bryant being suspended, the Steelers could face a fine. The Dallas Cowboys were fined $250,000 for player’s personal conduct and the Steelers could be next.

If Bell’s suspension holds up, the Steelers will be hit with a $125,000 fine.

“The (NFL’s) policy requires the forfeiture of 15 percent of the lost salary when two players are suspended,” wrote Mike Florio of profootballtalk.com. “With Bryant due to make $600,000 this year (he’ll lose all of it) and Bell slated to earn $966,900 (he’ll lose $235,294 if the suspension is upheld), 15 percent of the lost salary equates to $125,294.”

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