The Pittsburgh Steelers suffered a disappointing loss to the New England Patriots on Thursday night. And while there were several reasons for the team’s 21-18 defeat, Steelers star Minkah Fitzpatrick places the blame on one big thing: entitlement.
Following the game, Minkah Fitzpatrick had a pretty brutal message to his teammates, calling them out for their entitlement, telling them that they need to work for everything they own, not just expect to get it because they’re “wearing the black and gold.”
“In order to see the fruit, you’ve gotta toil for it,” Fitzpatrick said according to Brooke Pryor of ESPN.com. “I think too many people don’t want to toil for it. They just want to walk out here and think that they’re going to make plays and think that they’re going to perform at a high level.
“I think we need to have more people who want to work for it, not expect it to be handed to them. This is the NFL. Nothing’s handed to you. You got to earn everything. I think that dudes just think that because they’re wearing the black and gold, that they’re going to win games, and I think we need to check that mentality and make people realize that they got to earn that mentality, and they got to earn every single blade of grass, every single splash play and every single rep that they get out there. They got to earn it.”
The Steelers have now lost two games in a row, both coming against teams that are at the bottom of the NFL standings. And those two losses likely knocked them out of playoff contention.
