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The fallout with Florida State not making the college football playoffs continues.

Florida State is called for a special board of trustees meeting for Friday morning

and probably looking at do they want to stay in

the ACC.

Jerome Bettis joining us, the Hall of Fame running back and won a Super Bowl, six Pro Bowls,

and 10th overall pick by the Rams out of Notre Dame back in 1993.

Bussie, good to have you back on.

I want to play something that your former quarterback, Ben Rathlisberger, had to say, talking about the Steeler tradition. Then I'll get your reaction to this. Here's Ben Rathlisberger. I felt that certain guys on the team aren't in it for the team, they're in it for themselves. Well, now some of the guys in the team are saying the same thing. So maybe I wasn't too far off when I said that, but

I know that I'm retired. I just don't, you know, I'm not in the locker. I get it. But it just feels like that. It just feels like that's something that's kind of been lost on this team a little bit, it feels like the Steeler way is just not, there just wasn't that Steeler tradition passed

down.

And I just, you have it on defense.

Don't get me wrong. But you don't have it on offense right now. And it's just making it really hard. You're not seeing, in my opinion, the toughness on offense. But I just feel like people aren't afraid to play the Pittsburgh Steelers anymore. For whatever, you know, that is. But maybe the, the tradition of the Pittsburgh Steelers is done.

Maybe it needs to be formed a new kind of way.

I don't know.

It's Ben Ropolisberger, his football and podcast.

All right, Jerome.

What do you think Ben is getting at?

Well, I think he's getting at the fact that, for one, they haven't needed a quarterback

for the last, what, 14, 50 years, whatever it was, he was there.

So there was a lot of continuity between kind of eras, if you will.

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