"I don't blame them," said Roethlisberger. "When you play like poo, you should get talked about like that. I need to play better. If I'm not giving them a reason to talk good, then I'm giving them a reason to talk badly. That's all on me. I need to play better.
"When you're not winning, truthfully, at the end of the day, that's my determining factor of if I played well or not. Did I win the football game? Because that's all that matters to me. Am I not completing enough passes? Am I missing the right play call? There's a myriad of issues, in my opinion, that aren't helping us win the game. It can be something different all the time. I just have to play well enough to help us win a football game because, at the end of the day, that's all that really matters."
Roethlisberger said on Wednesday the players gathered for a meeting, mainly just offensive players, just to talk and 'express where we are and what we need to do moving forward.' He stressed it wasn't a panic meeting after losing the last three games, but just a normal meeting they hold this time of year when they know the playoffs are approaching.
"It had nothing to do with where we are in terms of losing three," said Roethlisberger. "I feel it's that time of year when it's prudent to have those kind of meetings where veteran guys can speak and talk to young guys on what to expect and get ready for moving forward.
"I'm sure that this whole thing now is going to blow up…'Steelers Had Players Only Meeting.' That's why I try to emphasize and this will never get written. It had nothing to do with the losses. It had everything to do with where we are and where we are going.
"We're getting ready to go into the playoffs. I had the guys raise their hands of who has played in a playoff game and who hasn't. It was over half the guys that haven't played in a playoff game. It's important the veteran guys, the guys that have, communicate what it's like. I hate to throw them out like that, but we used Coach Mike Munchak as an example, a guy that spent 30-plus years in the NFL playing and coaching and was only a part of one Super Bowl. I just wanted guys to understand and to reiterate how important this time of year is.
"Playoffs aren't guaranteed to anybody. It wasn't a players-only panic meeting. Make sure that people keep writing that. This is a meeting that we felt was necessary moving forward into the postseason."
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