Pittsburgh Steelers fans love JuJu Smith-Schuster, but they are not happy over commentsd he mad about a legend of the team.
The veteran wide receiver had deals from the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens on the table, before he elected to turned them down and re-sign with the Steelers. JuJu has spoken about why he decided not to sign with the divisional-rival Ravens and gave a brutally honest take on why he did not want to be seen as another James Harrison.
“The most disrespectful thing is, ‘Hey, like, I’m James Harrison. Lemme go to the Patriots.’ You lose that strong fanbase,” JuJu said.
Those words about Harrison set the fan base off on Twitter:
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When James Harrison landed in New England after a long career in Pittsburgh, there were certainly some hard feelings left in its wake.
“In New England, it’s more regimented,” he said. “It’s more disciplined. The coaching is better to be honest. The plans they put together are better. And they don’t ask their players to do anything outside the realm of what they feel their capabilities are.”
“I feel like it needs to be more disciplined,” he said of the Steelers. “… I feel like some of the situations that we were in when we were there as far as time management, calling of defenses – we had a situation where we had double-called defenses because one thing was said and then someone said something else so we were playing one defense and the other half was playing something else.”
