Mike Tomlin
Mike Tomlin
Michael Pettaway "Mike" Tomlinis an American football coach who is the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. Tomlin is the fifth youngest head coach in any of the four major North American professional sports. He is the tenth African-American head coach in NFL history, and first in Steelers history. With the victory in Super Bowl XLIII on February 1, 2009 against the Arizona Cardinals, Tomlin became the youngest head coach to lead his team to...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth15 March 1972
CityHampton, VA
That's where the rush and the coverage come together. The way you attack it is vertically. But in order to do that, you have to protect, or you have to get a bunch of people out to stress us. If you get people out, we've got one-on-one with the guys up-front. If you keep guys in to protect, we've got enough people in pass defense, and guys are in position to see the ball come out.
Oh, no. He does a nice job with his public image, but the guy is a pit bull.
Teams have been blocking him for three or four years now. He always has to take on a blocker - a tackle, a guard, a back. He has a rush plan just like a defensive end, and he takes it personally.
But you can tell he's a quick study because basically what he knows is what he's learned this weekend, and he's doing things in a sound nature on the field already.
The safety position is almost like the center on the offensive line. It's communication central. He's in the eye of the storm, so to speak.
I did see the Soul Train picture. That was interesting. I've heard all the jokes. I had it coming.
Excuses are tools of the incompetent
I'll tolerate you until I can replace you.
The Standard ... is the standard.
The good teams, the dominant teams, aren't necessarily dominant in stadiums, but they are dominant largely in moments, when they do what's required to get out of stadiums with victories.
Everybody with a helmet on is in the mix.
I tend to attack the challenges that are right in front of me, the ones that I have today.
There's going to be some joyful lifting for us if you will in terms of some of the tasks we have to do.