Mike Tomlin: Pittsburgh Steelers defense can do ‘big, big things’ | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC

Mike Tomlin: Pittsburgh Steelers defense can do ‘big, big things’ | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC

AND THEN SHE EVENTUALLY WATCHED IT TO THE END AND UNDERSTOOD. OKAY. UH, MIKE TOMLIN SAID, SOME THINGS IN A VERY CLEAR VOICE THAT WILL GET ATTENTION HERE. HE IS ON HIS DEFENSE. OH WAIT, WE DON’T HAVE THE CLIP, I HAVE TO SAY IT. HE WE’VE GOT ENOUGH TALENT. TO DO BIG, BIG THINGS. WE FEEL REALLY GOOD ABOUT THE PROSPECTS OF THIS GROUP. WE GOT TO WRITE THAT STORY BUT YADA YADA WHAT I ALREADY SAID HISTORIC THINGS, WHEN I SAY BIG THINGS, I’M TALKING ABOUT HISTORIC THINGS. THAT IS A HIGH LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE. FROM MIKE TOMLIN. MEAN THEY ADDED JAYLEN RAMSEY. THEY SWAPPED IN JAYLEN RAMSEY FOR MAKE A FITZPATRICK. OTHER THAN THAT, IT’S BASICALLY THE SAME DEFENSE. AM I WRONG? DEFENSE. AND IT WASN’T QUITE HISTORIC LAST YEAR, AND IT MAY JUST BE THAT IF THEY BELIEVE THE OFFENSE IS GOING TO BE THEY DID IT UNLEASHES THE DEFENSE? BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS WORK TOGETHER. YOU CAN’T HAVE A GREAT DEFENSE WITH AN OFFENSE. THAT IS HORRENDOUS. HE PUTS MORE PRESSURE ON THE DEFENSE IF YOU’RE TURNING THE BALL OVER SHORT FIELDS, SHORT, POSSESSIONS, 3, AND OUTS. YOUR DEFENSE GETS WIPED OUT. IF THE OFFENSE IS BETTER, UP TO BE EVEN BETTER THAN IT’S BEEN IN RECENT YEARS. MICHAEL YEAH, MIKE. I THIS THIS COMMENT REALLY SURPRISED ME FROM UH MIKE TOMLIN FOR A VERY SIMPLE REASON. HE’S A HEAD COACH OF THE PITTSBURGH STEELERS AND HE’S TALKING ABOUT HISTORIC DEFENSE. YOU’RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE CAROLINA PANTHERS, YOU’RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE JAGUARS OR OR THE SEAHAWKS YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT THE STEELERS, WHO HAVE, UH, SEVERAL SUPER BOWL TROPHIES THAT MIKE TOMLIN WALKS BY EVERY DAY. AND ON MANY OF THOSE TEAMS AND NOT TO BRING UP PAINFUL MEMORIES UH MANY MANY OF THOSE TEAMS FROM THE 70S AS YOU KNOW, MADE THEIR MARK BY SHUTTING PEOPLE DOWN UH DEFENSIVELY INCLUDING IN THE SUPER BOWL AGAINST THE MINNESOTA VIKINGS. SORRY. BUT YOU TALK ABOUT HISTORIC AND THE STEELERS YOU GOT TO BE TALKING ABOUT ALL TIME NOT JUST GOOD NOT JUST TOP 5 IN THE CURRENT NFL BUT I DON’T THINK SO. I GUESS WHAT I’M SAYING IS, I DON’T THINK THAT I THINK THEY’RE GONNA BE A, THEY’LL BE A REALLY GOOD DEFENSE. I DON’T THINK THEY’LL BE A HISTORIC DEFENSE. THERE’S NO THERE’S NO INDICATION THAT THAT’S ON THE WAY. WELL, AND IT’S HARD TO HAVE A HISTORIC DEFENSE WITH A 17 GAME SEASON WHERE THE RULES ARE SKEWED IN FAVOR OF OFFENSE, LIKE, HOW DO YOU EVEN DETERMINE WHAT’S HISTORIC IN TODAY’S CONTEXT, BECAUSE THAT EXTRA GAME DRIVES UP THE NUMBERS. NOW, THE PER GAME, NUMBERS CAN BE, YOU KNOW, THE SAME APPLES TO THAT I DON’T KNOW. IS HE TRYING, IS HE? IS HE JUST TRYING TO DISTRACT US FROM THE FACT THAT MAYBE THE OFFENSE ISN’T CLICKING THE WAY THAT THEY HAD HOPED? THERE’S BEEN SOME INDICATION THAT MAYBE THE OFFENSE ISN’T REALLY CLICKING. AND IF YOU’RE NOT GOING TO PLAY AARON RODGERS IN THE PRESEASON, THAT PUTS EVEN MORE PRESSURE ON YOUR TEAM WHEN WEEK 1 ROLLS AROUND, AND HE GOES BACK TO METLIFE, STADIUM TO TAKE ON THE JETS. I LOOK THIS IS A HELL OF AN EXPERIMENT BY THE STEELERS. EVERYTHING THEY’VE DONE DK MEDAF, AARON RODGERS, JAYLEN, RAMSEY, GOT A WORK OUT THIS ISSUE WITH CAM HEYWARD. IT’S HARD TO HAVE A HISTORIC DEFENSE IF 1 OF YOUR BEST DEFENSIVE PLAYERS ISN’T ON THE FIELD BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT HAPPY WITH HIS CONTRACT. I I FEEL LIKE THAT THAT THIS IS JUST A STRANGE TIME FOR THE AND IT SEEMS ODD FOR MIKE TOMLIN TO BE BOASTING. SO OPENLY, WHEN WE REALLY DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO BE THIS YEAR. YEAH, AND THEN, AS YOU SAID MIKE OFFENSIVELY THEY’VE GOT A LOT OF QUESTIONS STILL I MEAN THERE THERE’S SOME EXCITEMENT FROM SOME STEELERS FANS. I’M GUESSING WITH AARON RODGERS COMING THERE, BUT I THINK ABOUT THE RUNNING GAME TOO, ON OFFENSE, UH, THEY’VE THEY’VE GOT CALEB JOHNSON, THEY BROUGHT IN NAJEE. HARRIS IS OUT. UH, SO THEY HAVE SOME QUESTIONS THERE. HOW, HOW ARE WE GOING TO RUN OUR OFFENSE NOW, YOU KNOW, JOHN SMITH, JOHN SMITH IN A 2-TIME SET. HOW ARE WE GOING TO INCORPORATE HIM DK AND ROGERS? WHAT THEIR WHAT’S THEIR OF THE YOUNG GUYS? UH, LIKE ROMAN WILSON, THE DRAFT PICK, WHO MISSED MOST OF LAST YEAR? HOW’S HE GOING TO STEP UP? SO I THINK THERE ARE MORE OFFENSIVE QUESTIONS DEFENSIVELY. THEY’LL BE GOOD. THEY’RE ALWAYS GOOD DEFENSIVELY. I DIDN’T SEE ANYTHING FROM THEM IN THE OFFSEASON. I’M WITH YOU. I DIDN’T SEE ANYTHING FROM THEM IN THE OFFSEASON WHERE I THOUGHT. OH, WATCH OUT FOR THE STEELERS, THEY ARE GOING TO, YOU KNOW BE THE BEST DEFENSIVE TEAM IN THE NFL OR TOP 3 UH DEFENSIVE TEAM IN THE LEAGUE. THEY’RE IN A DIFFICULT DIVISION AND A DIFFICULT CONFERENCE. THEY’RE NOT IN THE SUPER BOWL WINDOW. THEY CAN PLAY THEIR WAY INTO IT. BUT WHEN AARON RODGERS SAYS, THEY’RE 1 OF THE 10 OR 12 TEAMS THAT IS IN POSITION WITH THE SUPER BOWL, THEY’RE JUST NOT, THEY CAN PLAY THEIR WAY WAY INTO IT, BUT ENTERING THE SEASON ON PAPER. THEY ARE NOT. UNFORTUNATELY, WE DON’T PLAY THE SEASON ON PAPER 1 THING THAT I SCREWED UP THAT I WANT TO. I WANT TO FIX THIS DAVID CULLY WASN’T HIRED BY THE TEXANS WHEN THEY WENT OFF THE BOARD. IT WAS LOVEY. SMITH 2021. THE COLLEGE WAS THE 1. THAT WAS LIKE, WHAT THE HELL? WHO WHO 2022? THEY WENT OFF THE BOARD AND HIRED LOVEY SMITH WHO ALSO WAS 1 AND YEAH, THEY WAS 1 HAD A A STRETCH OF OF COACHES HERE. AND NOW YOU LOOK AT DEMO ORIONS WHO’S DOING A GOOD JOB BUT THEY GO FROM. WHAT WAS IT? WAS IT BILL. O’BRIEN WAS BILL OBRIEN TO CULLY TO LOVEVERY. RYAN’S, SO THEY HAD THEY HAD BACK-TO-BACK 1 AND DONE COACHES, WHICH IS PRETTY INCREDIBLE. UH, TO TO DO THAT, AND STILL BE TALKING ABOUT HOW HAVING A GOOD

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