PITTSBURGH — After shedding to the Cleveland Browns 10 days in the past, Pittsburgh Steelers operating again Najee Harris expressed confidence the offense had the power to repair itself however questioned whether or not obligatory modifications can be applied.
Talking for the primary time since these feedback — and because the Steelers subsequently fired offensive coordinator Matt Canada — Harris walked again his earlier remarks and stated Sunday’s victory towards the Cincinnati Bengals was a step in the fitting route.
“I do not keep in mind saying that, however every part’s fixable,” Harris stated Wednesday. “It is only a matter of time, persistence, work, a sure kind of drive you need. How dangerous do you wish to repair it? How dangerous do you wish to go as a group?
“I believe that we come to know what we wish. We had that assembly, so it’s extra simply placing it on the sector and displaying it. I believe we took a step this previous weekend.”
After the loss to the Browns, Harris stated the offense would meet as a gaggle, and though he declined Wednesday to share the message delivered in that assembly, he stated it had a useful impression in rallying the locker room collectively.
“Did it produce outcomes? Yeah, I imply, you may say that,” Harris stated. “We had a 400 complete yard sport. That is the primary time. However typically it isn’t concerning the outcomes. Typically it is understanding — understanding of one another, the kind of group that we’re. It is a bond, and if we break up as a group, then we misplaced.
“When you guys write the stuff that you simply guys write, it might be no matter it desires, but when we lose one another, then we misplaced. So it is extra of simply the belief in one another and understanding that nothing might break what we acquired within the room fairly than what you guys write on social media.”
Harris, who had a season-high 99 dashing yards towards the Bengals, praised offensive line coach Pat Meyer, operating backs coach and interim offensive coordinator Eddie Faulkner, and playcaller and quarterbacks coach Mike Sullivan for his or her game-planning and their capacity to unite the locker room amid a difficult week.
“I believe that Pat and Coach Faulk did a great job, getting ready us all through the week,” Harris stated. “I believe us as a group did a extremely good job simply because loads of distractions. Clearly, the surface media, the teaching change on the offensive facet.
“So us as an offense, going on the market and executing at a excessive stage too, and placing up these yardage for the primary time, I tip my hat off for simply us as a group, and Pat, Sully and Coach Faulk simply getting us prepared for the week, actually simply motivating us and doing a extremely good job, particularly Coach Faulk, simply his management in there. I believe that it deserves extra speak.”
