There has been a lot of talk about team culture and ‘The Steeler Way’ this past week. A lot of it has been driven by outside parties. Not just interested reporters like Aditi Kinkhabwala, who specializes in such rhetoric, but also from former players like Ryan Clark and Rocky Bleier, whose comments reporters like the aforementioned are fueled by.
With that being said, it’s not as though it’s not also present in the locker room, to some degree, though it’s not distinctly different from what you would see in any locker room with a substantial age gap between its most veteran players and its newest starters.