There have been lots in Mike Tomlin’s first alternative with a microphone following the announcement that Matt Canada had been fired Tuesday.
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Pittsburgh Steelers HC Mike Tomlin has no scarcity of quotes that can undoubtedly etch themselves within the brains of followers for all of eternity. He provided loads of them in his first chat with the media following Tuesday’s announcement that the Steelers fired Matt Canada as offensive coordinator.
Query: “When did you inform the locker room [that Canada had been fired.”
Mike Tomlin: “I hadn’t.”
Question: If you hadn’t told the locker room, how did they find out that there was a chance at coordinator?
Tomlin: “Probably from you guys.”
Question: Was this your decision and your decision alone, or was this made collectively with Omar [Khan] and Artwork [Rooney II]?
Tomlin: “Management is lonely. I don’t run from it; I run to it. It was mine and mine alone.”
Query: What went into the considered dividing [OC duties] between two males?
Tomlin: “We’ve nonetheless received to educate working backs. We’ve nonetheless received to educate quarterbacks. The power of the pack is the pack.”
Query: Are these last seven video games vital, essential within the long-term improvement of Kenny [Pickett]?
Tomlin: “I’m centered on this week when it comes to the devolpment of Kenny. We’re not urinating on the hearth, man. We’re on the point of play a soccer sport and win this week; that’s the solely agenda right here.”
Query: You talked about that you simply simply noticed Kenny [Pickett]. Did you could have any conversations about this? How was he reacting?
Tomlin: “I used to be truly going to do my tv present, and time was urgent, so no, there wasn’t time for a dialog. It was only a [gestures with chin] a chin-up.”
One-off Tomlinisms
- “There’s such a factor as soccer justice, man, these guys often get what they’re on the lookout for.”
- “I usually say, soccer is our sport, our enterprise is successful.”
- “I didn’t have time to speak to[KennPickett[KennPickett
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