Chris Mueller: Forget about Twitter, Bush has questions to answer on field in 2021

By Chris Mueller  |  Special to The TimesDevin Bush became the latest victim of what I’ll term the “Steelers Curse,” whereupon a player, regardless of their ability level, ends up having their social media behavior completely eclipse whatever they do on the field.The worst tweet Bush sent over the holiday weekend – don’t bother looking it up – has already had its context stripped because the original poster took down a very cruel, awful video, one that Bush felt compelled to joke about. This represented a swift turn of events for the third-year linebacker, who originally garnered support from many fans for slamming men who use Tik Tok, before tucking his virtual tail between his legs and offering up a mea culpa to JuJu Smith-Schuster and Chase Claypool, who are big users of the app.All of this, of course, is immature nonsense, the byproduct of bored players and bored fans who hang on every word and deed of said players. This is not to say that Bush’s tweetstorm will or should be forgotten in a few months, but if he plays well, it will absolutely fade into the background.About that “playing well,” part, though. That was the thing that got…
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