Monday’s “First Call” has some sour grapes from Team Canada’s hockey coach regarding his team’s loss to the United States in the Olympic gold medal game Sunday.

A pair of former Steelers think it’s time for Pittsburgh to say goodbye to a big-ticket starter on defense. The Tush Push may be getting a reprieve again.

And one of the strangest plays of the NFL season may result in a rules change for the league.

Cooper is cryin’

Jon Cooper is complaining about 3-on-3 hockey being used at the Olympics to decide overtimes.

The Canadian Olympic coach panned the overtime format after his team lost to the American squad in Sunday’s gold medal game in Italy.

“You take four players off the ice, now hockey’s not hockey anymore,” Cooper said via The Hockey News. “There’s a reason overtime, and shootouts are in play — it’s all TV-driven to end games, so it’s not a long time. There’s a reason why (3-on-3) is not in the Stanley Cup Final or playoffs.”

Jack Hughes scored the game winner for Team USA less than two minutes into the extra frame.

Of course, the great irony is, Canada doesn’t even get to the semifinals if they don’t beat Czechia in the quarterfinals with a Mitch Marner 3-on-3 OT goal.

My guess is Cooper wouldn’t have been apologizing for a 3-on-3 win if it had been Canada claiming gold in the extra session.

Calling for a change

In their latest “Deebo and Joe” post, former Steelers James Harrison and Joe Haden are calling for a new inside linebacker.

The former Steelers think it’s time to end Patrick Queen’s time in Pittsburgh.

“Patrick Queen gotta go,” Haden said. “Love him to death, but that’s a lot of money there, and we can use that to get another asset at maybe the linebacker position.”

Harrison was on board with that idea.

“With Queen, I’m with you,” Harrison responded. “I think he even took the Steelers out of his (social media) bio. I think you can see the writing on the wall. They may have had a conversation already. They have some roster bonuses due to him.”

Queen’s salary cap number for 2026 is almost $17.2 million. His roster bonus is $2.5 million. His pre-June 1 cap savings, if released, are $13.3 million.

For as much of a fit as Queen seemed to be for the Steelers’ defense, and for as well as he has flashed in some individual games, big-play production hasn’t been there consistently.

Queen was second on the team to Payton Wilson (126) with 120 tackles, eight of them for a loss. But in 34 regular-season games as a Steeler, Queen has produced just two sacks, three forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries and no interceptions.

He had 13.5 sacks over his four years in Baltimore before joining Pittsburgh via free agency prior to the 2024 season.

No Tush Push ban?

Are we finally done complaining about the Tush Push? It appears that may be the case.

According to the NFL reporter Mark Maske, NFL Competition Committee co-chairman Rich McKay said he has not seen a proposal from any organization to ban the play.

“There’s no team proposal that I’ve seen from it,” McKay told Maske. “So I wouldn’t envision it. But you never know.”

During last year’s 2025 offseason, there was a vote on banning the Tush Push. The Green Bay Packers were the organization that advanced it.

However, the proposal failed to get the 24 votes needed for the rule to be enacted.

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Taking a look

While the Tush Push may not be under scrutiny for now, that goofy two-point conversion that helped decide a crucial Thursday night game between the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks still is.

According to CBS Sports, the Rams are advancing a rule change that will address the mechanism through which that play was overturned to become a successful two-point conversion instead of an incomplete pass.

Which, at the time, all 22 players and the officials seemed to think was the case.

“While the language remains unclear, one source with knowledge of the proposal(s) said the Rams’ goal is to ‘fix what went wrong in a few places,’” said reporter Jonathan Jones.

Presumably, that language would have something to do with clarifying how to nullify a clear recovery in the end zone as a score if the whistle had blown first on a perceived incomplete pass. But other aspects of the play may come under scrutiny as well.