Pittsburgh Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey called the team’s release of running back LeGarrette Blount ‘a blessing in disguise’.
The players’ reactions to the Pittsburgh Steelers releasing disgruntled running back LeGarrette Blount was swift and unanimous: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Just one day after Blount left the team’s game in Nashville early, upset over his playing time, the Steelers released him in a move center Maurkice Pouncey called ‘a blessing’.
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“You know what, man, we have a good team,” Pouncey said per the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “If you don’t want to be here, don’t be here. At the end of the day, you have your decision to make as a man, and he made it.”
“We’re fine,” Pouncey added. “We have our starting running back. It’s probably a good thing that it happened. At the end of the day, if it was a cancer, he ended up leaving on his own. That’s a blessing for us. At the end of the day, we’re good. We don’t need him.”
There were exactly zero Steelers players quoted who disagreed with Pouncey. The general consensus was that if Blount wants to be a selfish individual, he can do it on his own time. For now, the 7-4 Steelers have bigger concerns, like the dog fight that has become the AFC North division race, in which no team has a losing record.
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