Some messages come in softly, but chants to fire someone are heard loud and clear. On a night when the boos from the fans and chants of “Fire Tomlin” echoed through Acrisure Stadium, one voice in the locker room broke through all that noise. Cam Heyward , one of the longest-serving leaders on the team, laid out the only solution he believes can turn around Pittsburgh’s struggling season.

“We have to practice pissed off, watch film pissed off, do everything pissed off,” Heyward said. “We aren’t going to go gently in the night. We have to get our s**t together.”

Heyward reacted differently. He delivered what sounded like an internal directive. His words echoed a growing urgency within the locker room as players admitted they lacked consistency week to week.

The anger in the stadium

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