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‘Cowher Didn’t Do It This Way’: Veterans Had Hard Time Adjusting To Mike Tomlin’s Practice Approach, LaMarr Woodley Says

Many of us have experienced what it’s like to have a change in management at work with a new set of rules and expectations. It can be a difficult adjustment. That is exactly how it sounds like Mike Tomlin’s first season as the Pittsburgh Steelers’ head coach went.

“Coach Tomlin, the first year, it was great — at least for me it was. But a lot of the veteran guys, they didn’t like the way he ran practice,” LaMarr Woodly said via Cam Heyward’s Not Just Football podcast. “I guess training camp was a little harder, practice a little harder.