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Confident Steelers leaning on leadership to ‘get out of the rut’

"Every day, Vance always terrorizes me about my locker. I think my locker's pretty decent."

That's Derwin Gray, all 6-foot-4 inches, 320 pounds of him, towering just to my left here at the Rooney Complex as I approach Vance McDonald for a chat. I follow McDonald to his locker, but Gray interrupts — "No, record this first" — to make sure we all know just how ruthless McDonald is with his need for cleanliness.

I turn to McDonald.

So you expect a cleaner locker from your teammates?

"Yeah," McDonald begins.