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
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.
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.
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.
Oh, no. He does a nice job with his public image, but the guy is a pit bull.
It is a player-friendly scheme, but at the same time the expectation level is very high and the attention to detail is very high.
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.
Two reasons I come down here every year: the food and there are multiple guys here every year.
Everybody with a helmet on is in the mix.
There's going to be some joyful lifting for us if you will in terms of some of the tasks we have to do.
I tend to attack the challenges that are right in front of me, the ones that I have today.
I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is a continuation of something that happened in the past.
I'll tolerate you until I can replace you.
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.
More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic.