Steelers Players Are Lashing Out on Twitter After Thanksgiving Game Postponement
Thursday's Thanksgiving night matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens has been postponed until Sunday after several Ravens players and staff tested positive for COVID-19. It's safe to say Pittsburgh's players are not happy about that news.
Several Steelers took to Twitter to express their anger at the NFL's decision to move the game. JuJu Smith-Schuster, Eric Ebron and Chase Claypool and more fired off angry tweets about the situation:
First the NFL takes away our bye week because another team can’t get their Covid situation together, now they take away our Thanksgiving primetime game for the same reason. Smh.
— JuJu Smith-Schuster (@TeamJuJu) November 25, 2020
i’m not gone lie @NFL THIS IS BULLSHIT...
— Eric Ebron (@Ebron85) November 25, 2020
to talk about what exactly? how they keep F**in us. we had a week 4 bye cause of this, now the only time we look forward to some rest was after one of the biggest PRIMETIME games we no longer have. we keep getting screwed this year. https://t.co/926ImapBOO
— Eric Ebron (@Ebron85) November 25, 2020
What a joke....
— Chase Claypool (@ChaseClaypool) November 25, 2020
Maaaaaannnnnnnnnn that’s some BS
— Devlin Hodges (@DevlinHodges10) November 25, 2020
Given that the Steelers had their bye moved from Week 8 to Week 4 because the Tennessee Titans suffered a COVID outbreak, it does seem like Pittsburgh is getting punished for opponents getting sick. Unless there are other cancellations, the Steelers will finish the season having played 13 weeks in a row.
The benefit of playing on Thanksgiving is getting a few extra days off to prepare for the following week. Pittsburgh won't get that now.
It is worth noting, a few weeks ago Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin claimed his team wouldn't care if they had to play 13 straight games. Apparently, they actually do care.
The Steelers are the NFL's lone remaining undefeated team at 10-0 and have a decent shot to finish the regular season unbeaten. We'll see how this schedule change impacts that chase.