PHILADELPHIA — It’d been three full months before the NFL season began that Mike Tomlin already, apparently, foresaw all this.
He’d been asked by one of his old players, Ryan Clark, in a podcast interview what kind of coach he needed to be for these Steelers in 2022, based on the premise that they’d be younger, particularly on offense. And the response might as well have been spoken by Nostradamus.
No, seriously …
“I need to be what this 2022 team needs me to be," came Tomlin's unflinching reply. "That’s leadership, right?