“Rub me the wrong way”: Cam Heyward hits back at Ben Roethlisberger over his “me first” comments
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After just a few months of retirement, the experienced quarterback is back in the news but this time for different reasons. Ben Roethlisberger in a recent interview with the Pittsburgh Post Gazette said he doesn’t admire the attitude young players portray now. There’s a shift from the team-first attitude to the me-first attitude
Roethlisberger had a lot to say about how the new generation is different and more selfish: “I feel like the game has changed. I feel like the people have changed in a sense,” Roethlisberger said. “Maybe it’s because I got spoiled when I came in. The team was so important. It was all about the team. Now, it’s about me and this, that and the other.
“I might be standing on a soapbox a little bit, but that’s my biggest takeaway from when I started to the end. It turned from a team-first to a me-type attitude. It was hard. It’s hard for these young guys, too. Social media. They’re treated so well in college. Now, this new NIL stuff, which is unbelievable. They’re treated so special. They’re coddled at a young age because college coaches need them to win, too.”
Ben Roethlisberger had an illustrious career with the Steelers where he played for them for 18 years, he was surprised by how the young players don’t have the team spirit that he and his teammates shared during their initial days.
“I took offense to that”: Cam Heyward on Ben’s statement
Cam was Roethlisberger’s teammate for more than a decade. The Steeler’s captain defended his team-mates on his podcast ” Not just Football with Cam Heyward”
“It looks as though we are looked at as selfish players, and I don’t think that’s the point. We have a lot of young players that come from different backgrounds, have experienced different things from what others or I may have experienced. That doesn’t make them selfish or more of a me-type attitude. … There are a lot more team-first guys than me-type attitude. I took offense to that.”
Heyward tried to explain the situation soundly by saying that every player is different and each has their problems, challenges and backgrounds. To call them selfish would be unfair and extreme.
Football is a team sport and can only be played efficiently with trust and belief between each player, individual skills are only important to a certain extent. In the end, the thing that matters is are the players comfortable with each other.
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